Charlie Weis Breaks Up Fight on Recruiting Visit

On a recent visit to Trinity High School in Washington, PA to visit recent OSU commit Andrew Sweat, Weis and an assistant coach found themselves waiting in a hallway right in front of a fight that broke out. As the story goes…

The hallway outside Dalton’s office, where Weis and his assistant were standing, would have been barren except that a fight between two students had broken out. That type of activity tends to draw a crowd.

Weis and his assistant moved toward the two combatants but were stopped in the hallway by a Trinity staffer, who demanded to know why they were not wearing visitor badges.

After identifying themselves, Weis and his partner were allowed through and immediately walked up to the two battling students.

“(Weiss) said, ‘You want a piece of me?'” Dalton recalled.

The two fighters stopped to size up Weis, a hulk of a man whose arms are large enough to rip a phone book in half. The fight was called because of common sense.

Then Weis turned to Dalton and asked, “What do I get for that?”

Dalton replied, “If you stay until 11 a.m., you can do lunch duty.”

Weis politely declined and moved along to the next high school.

I know some opposing fans who feel the need to lurk around here will have a field day with this article referring to Weis as a “hulk of a man”, but this story is great and is a hilarious cap off to a great day for the Fighting Irish.

Credit to Blue-Gray Sky for finding this one.