Kelly’s coaching abilities:
1). Game coach - was average to bad when he started, but he has progressed and learned to the point where he makes smart clock mgmt calls and decisions on a regular basis. Most people would not have been allowed this learning curve, but there is no reason to not enjoy it now.
2). Recruiting - the best HS talent evaluator that I have ever seen. He can pick the diamonds in the rough like no other. Now on the other hand, he approaches the 5 star recruits with the same analytics approach that he uses to decide to fair catch most kicks. For the time and trouble and lower retention rate at ND where regulations are more strict, he feels that his time is better spent with the four stars in general and rough diamonds. He does land some 5 stars, but that is ND, not him. Our loss to Clemson highlights the flaw in his approach. We are good enough to get an invite on occasion with his strategy, but we lacked the skill position talent to have a real chance at a NC.
3). Program manager - excellent.
4) Assistant selector - good to excellent now (Swarbrick did force him to change, but it was Kelly who picked them). When he started, I would grade him as poor to average.
The present day Kelly is an 8/10 coach. Their is no safe choice that is better who is available and who will come and live with the restrictions at ND. Your previous NDN board can’t let go of the past which is less than BK was able to do. He does sound like a dick in real life - so what? Do you think Frank Leahy was a cool dude? I don’t care. His players like him.
Anyone who can’t enjoy a 26-4 run over the past 3 years should run their whiny ass over to NDN where the hatred for ND as a whole is white hot- worse than any Michigan board. Unlike Some boards, our uhnd board ops do not claim potentially imaginary secret inside team sources who tell them that current players on the team are mentally weak. Our board ops also tolerate diverse opinions.
We also do not feel spelling and grammatical errors are worthy of correction for the sake of virtue signaling.
....and I usually edit my posts a lot given that my nemesis spellcheck tasks me on my i pad.
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