Charlie Weis: Gettysburg Address (2006)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers, Gipp and Rockne, brought forth on this University, a first national championship, conceived in Greatness, and dedicated to the proposition that no other college teams were created as equals.
Now we are engaged in a great war, testing whether that University, the only University so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of war pitted against inaccurate ESPN pundits and unintelligible race-wheeling, bed-wetting derelicts. During this war, we have come to dedicate a piece of that battlefield, as a final shameful resting place for those who came and failed in attempt to thwart the destiny of that University. This is altogether fitting and proper.

But, in truth, those who have truly dedicated – those who have truly consecrated – and given their lives on this hallowed ground are the brave Irish -- those of Montana, Lattner, Lujack, and Quinn -- those who have established that University of unfathomable power. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, however it will never forget what that University did here. It is for us, the Irish faithful, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who so valiantly fought here have thus far so nobly advanced -- that from these honored, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve to return that University to the Greatness that it was conceived in and -- that this great University, under God and Weis, shall have a new birth of Glory -- and that the regal new government of the Irish, by the Irish, for the Irish, shall not perish from the college rankings, but reign true for all eternity.


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