South Bend, IN -- (Sports Network) - Charlie Weis, who is under contract through the 2015 season, will remain the head football coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish for at least one more season, according to a source close to the team.

NewsCenter16 in South Bend, Indiana reported that Weis has been informed to continue recruiting and to tell his coaching staff to maintain the status quo.

Speculation has run amuck in recent weeks regarding the highly talked about coach, who guided the Irish to a mediocre 6-6 regular season on the heels of a debilitating 3-9 campaign one year ago.

Weis, a graduate from Notre Dame in 1978, signed a 10-year contract just seven games into the first season at his alma mater. He brought the program to a pair of Bowl Championship Series games in his first two years at the helm, but both ended with the Irish on the opposite end of a blowout.

Weis has compiled a 4-10 record against ranked opponents during his four-year tenure and has not beaten rival USC in four tries, including embarrassing 30- plus point defeats to the Trojans the past two seasons.