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Calling it a shared vision, first-year Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick decided to retain football coach Charlie Weis for a fifth year Tuesday and Swarbrick, now returned from a trip to California, spoke about the decision Wednesday.
The former Indianapolis attorney said he spent much of last week and the first couple days of this week speaking with people and collecting data to put together an analysis and an agenda for an eventual meeting with Weis, which happened Tuesday in California.
"I thought, based on all that, what were the areas that we needed to focus on to make (a) change and to do a better job than what we have done this year," Swarbrick told The Journal Gazette on Wednesday night.
Swarbrick declined to go into specifics about goals he has set for Weis next season, calling it an internal matter.
"I'm not going to go into any of that," Swarbrick said. "Other than to say the really important part of that process was the extent of what Charlie and I had a shared vision of what those things were."
Weis, who has been recruiting in California and Hawaii, is scheduled to return to Indiana on Thursday for the Notre Dame football banquet Friday.
For more on this story, check out Thursday's Journal Gazette.
