One Foot Down · Nov 25, 2016
It Ends Tonight: Breaking Down Rocket Ismail’s 2009 USC Pep Rally Speech
My freshman year at Notre Dame was Charlie Weis’ last at the university. His team went 6-6 for the second year in a row after the 3-9 debacle in 2007, and he was promptly fired and replaced with Brian Kelly in December of 2009.
Weis’ team that year had its flaws (especially on defense), but had absolutely no business finishing 6-6. Junior QB Jimmy Clausen threw 28 TDs and only 4 INTs in one of the most accurate and efficient displays of quarterbacking I’ve ever seen, and he was tossing the ball to a few guys you might have heard of like Golden Tate, Michael Floyd, and Kyle Rudolph.
