Guys (and gals) there is no such thing as RKG (Right Kind of Guy) as there was no such thing as “Charlie gets it”. If Weis “got it” he’d still be here. Kelly is going after the best players possible. For every three “right kind of guys” I’ll take one Lynch. If there ever was a RKG it would be Crist. Two years in a row he blew out his knee, killed himself to be ready for the season and got buried after ONE half. ONE HALF! Never heard him complain, quit or transfer. Good luck Dayne Crist, see you playing on Sundays some day.

No moral victory in this at all. Big freakin’ deal, so the D only yielded 28 points. I hope you realize that this is a negative statement against the D.

It has become urban FACT that he did fumble against USC on the one yard line with a chance to tie the game at 17 or at least cut it to 17-13. Did you forget about this?

This is all perpetuated by the QB, Rees. You could see no desire in his eyes at all. A field general needs to have the fire and pass that torch on to his teammates to light their torches. Tommy was none of the above. He looked scared, plain and simple, and the offense fed off of his fear.

Spot on.

Mark May is always prepared to say something negative about ND. What’s new? You can clearly see that his responses are always pre-meditated.

What the heck is all this talk about Brian Kelly’s job? You guys can not seriously be considering that his seat is even remotely warm!!! The man is trying to reverse a stigma that has been at this school since Bob Davie, we can’t win the big game. I don’t understand how you change that, he inherited players from the previous regime that were completely and utterly underachievers, not to mention we were the complete opposite of any championship caliber football team, we were undersized and lacker athleticism, YOU CAN’T COACH THAT!!!!! You can still see it our lack of speed in certain areas has been exposed by the better teams (USC, Stanford and Denard Robinson), but times our changing, look at the recruiting classes he has brought in, they are all big, and fast. Aaron Lynch, Stephon Tuitt, and Louis Nix are all mountains of men. And, this years class (so far) is loaded with one thing SPEED!!!!! the kids BK is bringing in have all the tools.

Quit blaming the coach for the faults of the players, granted there is something wrong when the same players keep making key errors at important moments in the game, however its not like BK is standing on the sidelines like its no big deal, it looks like he’s gonna pull his hair out, because they do work on it, and he does preach it to them!!!! It’s something that that individual player needs to figure out. Or the coach sits his sorry butt on the bench, but our depth isn’t the greatest so you work with what you have.

The future is bright, I expect a top 10 (possibly to 5) recruiting class, I believe 2012 is going to be surprisingly good for the Irish and Brian Kelly is going to be the next Lou Holtz rather than Bob Davie

GO IRISH!!!!!!!!

And they will never give up on you. These pups who post here with such elan and smugness just don’t get it.

I remember those days and agree with you. It was said that his teammates played with the passion they did because they were afraid of what he would do to them if they didn’t. Whether or not the story is true I don’t really know but I don’t see the passion now. Jumping up and down after a good play and jumping up with chest-bumps, which strikes me as particularly moronic, doesn’t mean passion. More important – I don’t see leadership out there. I’ve said that a few times over the season and I still say it. I think that BK is looking for it too.

Lynch and Tuitt show some but hot-dogging after a good play is nothing more than hot-dogging. Just show the others how it’s done, get up and get ready for the next play.

FYI – I am an old fart. I have watched FB for more than 50 years and I remember when ANY hotdogging meant the hot-dogger would be knocked on his ass by his own teammates. I liked it better like that but that’s obviously my problem.