I don't hate Kelly. ND football is the most well-positioned it has been since Lou, without question. Kelly deserves thanks for that.
I'd appreciate if our head coach could enjoy a tremendous win over a ranked team without using it as a platform to excuse HIS abhorrent coaching performance. Instead, he launches into a nonsensical diatribe about his team's latest big game embarrassment - 'they' in his parlance.
“And that’s just the maturation of a group of guys that needed to figure out how to go from preparation phase to playing phase, and they learned that at Michigan. They learned that it’s not just about preparation. You can work as hard as you want. You have to flip the switch. And they didn’t at Michigan. … Since that time, they’ve learned how to do it. And we’ll be tough to beat down the stretch.”
Sure, Brian, 'they' just didn't flip the switch at Michigan. You had absolutely nothing to do with that.
Fuck that.