By LARRY LAGE, AP Sports Writer
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP)—Charlie Weis insisted Notre Dame wasn’t trying to
break the rules by having a laptop computer in its coaching box during a 23-7
loss to Michigan State on Saturday.
“It wasn’t like there was somebody trying to do something illegal,” Weis
said.
Michigan State spokesman John Lewandowski said the school asked a liaison to
the officials to remove the laptop after noticing one being used by the Fighting
Irish. The liaison took the laptop out of the their coaching box during a break
in the first half.
“The first thought you have is, `Are they tracking tendencies or other
data,”’ Lewandowski said. “You cannot use that type of that resource in the
coaching box. That’s just like you can’t have a replay monitor.”
Weis said the officials approached him about the laptop and then he asked
offensive coordinator Mike Haywood about it.
“I asked upstairs if there was one,” Weis recalled. “I was talking to
Michael and he said, `No.’ Then, I guess one of the interns had one over there.
Then I immediately told (the officials) that there was an intern (with a laptop)
and he took it off a ledge and put it on the floor.”
Weis said he told the officials that he wasn’t trying to do something
improper while walking off the field at halftime.
“The last thing I ever want to do is lie,” he said.
Weis is 24-16 in three-plus seasons at Notre Dame after working as the
offensive coordinator for Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots from
2000-04. Belichick and the Patriots were fined and sanctioned by the NFL last
year for video taping opponents sideline signals.
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Charlie Weis insisted Notre Dame wasn’t trying to break the rules by having a laptop computer in its coaching box.
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