You’ve all read the quotes on the AP wire or ESPN.com…

“One of the teams (Tennessee) that jumped us had the same game that we had. They’re down, they’re playing at home and they win by a field goal. Another team (Florida) that jumped us wasn’t even playing. They were home eating cheeseburgers and they end up jumping us. That befuddles me. …”Tell me how that works? Maybe I’m just stupid. Tell me how that works?”

And I’m sure that all you ND haters (and therefore Weis haters because you wish you had him) went off on how our great big coach is a great big whiner.  That he should shut his trap and quit complaining.  But Charlie isn’t like that.  And John Walters over at NBC has the FULL story:

In truth, for those of us in attendance, it was a funny moment. The writer who asked the question was the AP reporter Tom Coyne. The sentence that Coyne did not include in his piece was was the next thing Weis said. The ND coach looked directly at Coyne and said wryly, “You’re on the AP, tell me how that works.”

Everyone in the room laughed. [M]ore often than not it’s difficult to appreciate the context of the quote unless you are there or unless you hear it in its enitirety.

If you only read the AP story, you may think that Weis has an agenda, that he’s bitching because the Irish are falling further and further out of the BCS championship game picture. But listen to what he said immediately after Coyne answered his question by saying, “I don’t get a vote.”

Here’s Weis:  “Hey — let’s be very practical here, okay. Would I love for Notre Dame to play for the National Championship this year? Absolutely. Is it a chance that it happens? Remote. Is there a chance? Yeah, there’s a chance because any team with one loss has a chance of playing for it.

Other than that, what’s the next thing you want? Well, you’d like to play in one of the big games. So what do you have to do? Then you have to win. That’s what you have to do. If you win, things usually end up taking care of themselves.”

So calm down playa-hatahs.  Chuck is all good.  As usual.

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