Comments on: Recruiting, Stars and RKGs

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:34:13 +0000

I'm a Bearcat fan and I am tired of people thinking that it would have been any different in the Sugar Bowl if Kelly coached if anything the score MAY have been a bit closer but no guarentee that ANY team could have beaten Florida in Tebows and wat was thought to be Meyer's last game! The Gators would hav stomped a mudhole in anyone that night! Now as 4 ND dnt think that things will change overnight 4 a program that's been going downhill 4 the last decade that's assinine! Kids want 2 win games, Championships and ND has been a far longshot cry from that for a long time now! The fact is its not Kelly and it wasn't Weis its Notre Dame! Kelly sceem worked here at UC and in the Big East but from the two BCS bowl games that UC has lost the past 2 years should let you know that Kelly doesn't have 6 star program COACHING experience! ND is on a much different level than UC and Kelly hasn't really seen that level yet coming from UC so ND should ask themselves this: Is Kelly the man that can ressurect the dead? Becuz in reality UC's ressurection started the year B4 Kelly arrived! He just got all the credit! But he can keep a program alive and make it better but can he TOTally revive it? That's the question

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:25:20 +0000

"When a well coached team with exceptionally developed lower level recruits meets a well coached team with exceptionally developed higher level recruits the result looks like this:

Florida 51
Total Yards: 659

Cincinnati 24
Total Yards: 246

And it wasn't even close to that close, the score was 37-3 at one point."

Great article, overall, but this comment misses the whole point of the Kelly hiring. Kelly didn't coach the Bearcats in the Sugar Bowl and the Cats were plainly scared ___less from the jump because they knew Jeff Quinn, who did coach the game, was way way over his head. Quinn approved a decision to ditch the team's black unis, which they'd worn all season, for surrender all-white pants, jerseys and helmets. He failed to make a single adjustment all game and if the Sugar Bowl had a mercy rule the game would have been called at the Half. With Kelly at the helm, the Bearcats win or come extremely close. THAT my friends, is why Kelly is the right guy for Notre Dame.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:05:37 +0000

Replying to Otis: Already, most folks are giving Kelly a pass on his first Irish season by labeling 2010 as a 'rebuilding' year. Huh?
Aren't these the same people who also labeled Kelly a 'genius,' a proven winner, the marquee coach who will make us stop pining for the Holtz days, and the guy who can be a Big Time winner with 'less talent'...? So, why is this a 'transition' season?
If Kelly is such a genius, then the expectations must be, 'win now,' and nothing less than a 2011 bowl game."

I was the first guy on this blog to say Kelly was the right man for the job and I carried his banner, arguing, in the face of tremendous criticism, that he had demonstrated he didn't need 4 and 5star kids to compete for a National Championship. NO ONE should give him a pass on Year 1 based on this year's recruits. The key question mark is QB. Kelly had Pike and Collaros. Both were terrific and Collaros was actually better than Pike. I didn't see much of Crist, but he didn't impress me a good QB. If Andrew Hendrix sucks as well, it makes it hard to go 9-3. 8-4 might be more realistic. Anything less than that is a disater.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:50:56 +0000

Charlie was labeled the genius, not Kelly. Haven't heard anyone describe him that way. I also haven't seen the hype around Kelly, most seem very cautious about him. What hype and enormous billing are you referring to?

By: Otis Criblecoblis

Otis Criblecoblis — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:37:34 +0000

Already, most folks are giving Kelly a pass on his first Irish season by labeling 2010 as a 'rebuilding' year.

Huh?

Aren't these the same people who also labeled Kelly a 'genius,' a proven winner, the marquee coach who will make us stop pining for the Holtz days, and the guy who can be a Big Time winner with 'less talent'...?

So, why is this a 'transition' season? ND is loaded with talent, most of the recruits, thanks chiefly to Weis and his staff, are excellent, and Kelly brought his staff and organization with him to South Bend; i.e., he ain't starting from scratch.

If Kelly is such a genius, then the expectations must be, 'win now,' and nothing less than a 2011 bowl game.

I mean, it's not like he just jumped from the NFL and never head-coached in college before, or he was clueless about recruiting and top high school talent.

In Weis's first season, he was a couple of plays away from the National Championship game, and he was dealt a lot worse cards than poor Brian Kelly has to play with.

If Kelly's as good as his enormous billing, he should win at least 9 games this season.

No more talk about rebuilding. Kelly needs to live up to his inflated hype this season.

No excuses.

By: college sports recruiting services

college sports recruiting services — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:15:33 +0000

In fact, he used the game as an avenue to teach life’s lessons. Coach Valesente, along with my parents, are responsible for any success I may have in life or coaching. I am forever indebted to him and could never repay him for what he has done for me and every other player that has ever stepped foot in his program at Ithaca College.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:21:16 +0000

You arm chair critics are so full of it, claiming impending doom because of the last two recruiting classes when only one or two of ND's future opponents had a better class. Stand back and let the coaches coach. ND needs to get back to a BCS bowl before they play for a national championship.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:49:02 +0000

Did you have to say "mold?"

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:15:08 +0000

Interesting insights in the above but all the speculation based on recruits is just that….speculation. Raw talent helps but hey let's have the strength and cond have at them and let the coaches go to work. Rankings are fun to play with, but it all counts on the field. I could care less if ND has the 100th ranked class and wins games consistently…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:29:32 +0000

Chilly, yeah, yeah, yeah baby, right on. Friggin perfect post.
Sick of all this "can't recruit, can recruit" bs. HELLLLLOOOOO – WE'VE GONE 16-21 OVER THE LAST 3 YEARS. That ain't Kelly's fault. We're lucky to pull who we did this year. All this bs about our failure to close out on more 4 or 5stars b/c of Kelly's lack of recruiting acumen is just a lame attempt at substituting causation for association.