Charlie Weis yoked a group of college football coaches on a trip to military bases in Germany. The Middle East to pump up the troops. They got ample out of it .
“I agree we felt at smallest so dazzling by what we saw when we were over there,” the Notre Dame teacher said Thursday. “It was absolutely a rewarding, instructive practice. My only regret is that my son and every kid that’s on my football team ‘t there along with me to see the intellectual subject of those 18- to 23-year-old kids that aren’t the yet.”
Weis, who said he was struck by the troops’ solidarity and coordination, said he thinks if his players had made the trip it have caused them to stop “whining not far off the bantam equipment.”
“When you sit there and watch what’s going on over there, trivial belongings become very, very unimportant,” he said.
Weis didn’t hear a single complaint from any soldierly personnel during his trip, which involved stops in Germany, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, aboard the USS Nassau and extra stops he is not approved to thrash out for surety ins and outs.
One of his most exciting occurred on the principal day of his trip, when the group that encompassed Auburn’s Tommy Tuberville, Georgia’s Mark Richt, Miami’s Randy Shannon and Yale’s Jack Siedlecki bunged at a martial hospice at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. A had just had his leg amputated above his acceptable knee after being gammy by a edge bomb, and his face was all torn up.
“You would have understood he got checked in the boards in a hockey game and he was going to be OK far ahead that day,” Weis said.
Weis said he couldn’t imagine how up and spiritually exacting the man was.
“It set the tone for the well week,” he said.
There were of sense of fun as well. Weis walked into the room of a Fort Wayne man who also was damaged in an outbreak.
“He at me and says, ‘Coach Weis? I don’t know if it’s you or the morphine,”‘ Weis said.
Weis said he signed a hat and posed for some so the crusader would know he was certainly there.
In Bahrain on Saturday, Weis ran into a serviceman who was a Southern California fan nuptial to a Notre Dame fan. The USC fan tried to get Weis to pose for a picture while the man was tiresome a Trojans shirt, but Weis said he wouldn’t do it but for he put a Fighting Irish on. After the USC fan him, Weis agreed to let the USC fan’s buddies decide which he wear for the snapshot. He completed up taxing the Notre Dame shirt.
“He says his wife will never let him live it down,” Weis said with a approximate grin.
Weis said he returned home satisfied of the U.S. troops.
“It made you feel good that the public who are over there defending your nation state in volunteer times are that prideful of what they’re ,” he said.
Notes: Tight end Will Yeatman, suspended until further notice from the team following his capture in February after ostensibly motivating smashed on a property footway, has been reinstated to the team. Under a plea compact, Yeatman pleaded guilty to wild energetic. … Linebacker Aaron Nagel, who did not play as a freshman last season, is .
