Comments on: Myopic Arrogance and Brian Kelly

By: Boone

Boone — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 16:41:12 +0000

The students got BVG fired by their chanting. Same thing must happen before Kelly or Swarbrick get fired.

By: Mike Coffey

Mike Coffey — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 15:06:34 +0000

In reply to kevin.

Denbrock was an OC for two years, was demoted to WR coach (for poor performance) for about five minutes before leaving for another OC position, and that’s a “big promotion”. If that’s a “big promotion”, it’s also having an inept OC on your staff for two years and not doing anything about it, just like he had an inept DC on his staff for over two years and didn’t do anything about it. So which is it?

By: JB

JB — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:12:59 +0000

I have had the pleasure and good fortune of living through two truly great coaches and molders of men, Ara and lou. Truly good coaches make good fathers, substitute or otherwise. Years ago I became good friends with a fine priest who confided in me that when in college he couldn’t decide whether he wanted to be a priest or go into finance. He was a good priest but did not have the passion and fire to be a great priest. As I recall, Kelly comes from a political family. He couldn’t decide whether to be a politician or a coach. He is a good coach, but he does not have to fire or passion to be a great one. That fire and passion holds true in all walks of life.

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:31:40 +0000

lol yes splitting hairs, so denbrook went from a wr coach and left for an OC job, that isn’t splitting hairs, that is a big promotion hope that helps

By: ndcrazymike

ndcrazymike — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 20:07:48 +0000

In reply to HURLS. and SANTA will b here soon HURLS! Stop worrying about the WHINERS your boy from bosston is a loser! PS paaark ya opinion in HAAVORD YARD!

By: NCHDomer

NCHDomer — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 17:42:18 +0000

Excellent article. And a lot of very good comments and observations.
The changes being made by Kelly with the coaching staff are meaningless, in my view. When it is all said and done, Kelly will have entirely new coaching staff. Next year will be like Kelly’s first season, with the usual growing pains. The problem is that we still have the same head coach, who is the problem. Nick Saban keeps winning championships with different assistant coaches because he makes them coach within his overall philosophy. He is the key to Alabama’s success, not Lane Kiffin or his replacement. Similarly, ND’s success is tied to Kelly, not his assistant coaches. Remember, BVG has been terrible for years. It took the pressure from the mounting losses for Kelly to make a change. He either could not see how bad his defense was being coached or blindly loyal to a friend not up to the task. Either way, he is not ND head coaching material. Seven years and the program continues its downward slide. I’ll be at the games next year but have no real expectations for the team being successful. Jenkins, Jack and Kelly are focused on creating and marketing the ND brand. Ironic that they have done the most to destroy the brand by forgetting its origination – beating the odds and winning national championships. Which was done on natural grass, in bad weather at a once all-male school with limited social life – all knocks on recruiting. Maybe the jumbotron is the missing piece of the Kelly puzzle.

By: flirish

flirish — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 16:31:42 +0000

I am not sure I see any whining. I am reading valid comments about an inept coach.
For example; is it whining to state that special teams haven’t improved over seven years and in fact this year cost us two to three games. With the talent we have, should ND consistently have some of the worst special teams in D 1 football. Special teams consistently have hurt ND in close and big games. Is that whining or fact?
Is it whining or fact to state that we have a pathetic record against Power five teams with winning records since 2013. I believer other than the Miami game we have lost to every power five team we have played with a winning record for three years now. I think that is a fact not a complaint.
Is it whining to note that we have a ton of talent at running back and no running game and in fact no real offensive identity? that I think again is a simple factual observation and not whining.
What about defense- simple facts and not observations–tells you that seven years in we are way behind where any program should be.
I could give the guy a chance if we were three years in a he was building–but seven years into this?
Kelly simple is a bad coach. Some personal opinions but again not whining is that he is horrible at game decisions and adjustments and he seems like a real jerk to his QBS—-again not whining but merely observations. Its ok to have a down year but against a very weak schedule, a down year with the talent we had should have been a los to USC and maybe VaTech. Who else was really a good team?
not whining –just stating facts
Here is a prediction: ND will never get to a playoff again with Kelly and when he does leave the program will be worse off than when he came.

By: Mike Coffey

Mike Coffey — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 15:36:12 +0000

In reply to HURLS. Stopped reading after the first sentence

By: HURLS

HURLS — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:30:52 +0000

In reply to HURLS. - and happy new year.

By: HURLS

HURLS — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 12:29:00 +0000

I’m a BK apologist. (yes, I’m from Boston-area) All this piling-on by the fair-weather-fairy fans is really disturbing on a NotAdame (spelled as we Bostonians say it) site. I went to NotAdame, I witnessed in person (experienced) the 1988 Championship season. All you whiners need better analytical skills. 1) As a disclaimer, I have never coached a college football program. 2) NEITHER HAVE YOU WHINERS! 3) BK has coached National Championship programs. Div.1? Not yet. (; Div.1AA? Yes. Blah-blah-blah. My point is that CHAMPIONS HAVE IT IN THEIR BLOOD. (“under their skin”) That is hopefully part of the initial thinking when hiring BK 7/8-years ago. CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE WON BY CHAMPIONS. No, that is not precise analysis. But it is analysis I’ve not read on these boards. So stop the whining, y’all, and contribute to the winning. GoIRISH!