No Excuses One Man's Incredible Rise Through the NFL to Head Coach of Notre Dame

Charlie Weis started his professional coaching career under Bill Parcells with the Giants, as defensive assistant and assistant special teams coach. That year the Giants went on to win the Super Bowl. A few years later, Weis joined the New England Patriots, where he once again served under Parcells. During those four years, Weis served variously as tight ends' coach ('93-'94), running backs coach ('95), and receivers coach ('96). When Parcells left New England following the 1996 season, Weis once again followed his mentor to the New York Jets, where he was the team's offensive coordinator from 1997 to '99. Following Parcells' announced retirement after the 1999 season, Weis returned to New England and was named the team's offensive coordinator under head coach Bill Belichick, a position he would hold from 2000 through 2004. During this stint, the Patriots won three Super Bowls (2001, 2003, 2004). In December 2004, Weis was named Head Coach of Notre Dame. He is the third coach in the history of the school to serve as Head Coach for his alma mater. Since then, Weis has been hailed as a coaching genius, credited with turning around Notre Dame's legendary-but-flailing football team. Weis is known to be a relentlessly private husband and father. In NO EXCUSES, he will discuss his personal traumas, including his near-death experience during gastric-bypass surgery gone wrong, and the inspiring story of his family raising their developmentally delayed daughter Hannah.Weis, Charlie is the author of 'No Excuses One Man's Incredible Rise Through the NFL to Head Coach of Notre Dame', published 2007 under ISBN 9780061206740 and ISBN 0061206741.