"The margin is not the issue. Losing is losing. I don't know really what the inference is. This football team battled. And they made a few more plays on the perimeter. I'm not sure, really, what the question is. When you lose football games, you know, there's a few more plays that you have to make. We had the opportunity. You watched the game. I watched the game."
That was the difference? "A few more plays"? We were rocked by a superior team and this fool thinks it's just "a few more plays".
Q. Congratulations on a successful season.
COACH KELLY: That would be nice if our local people felt that way. But they don't use any of those kinds of those terms.
Fuck outta here. Congrats on another beatdown on the national stage? What a clown.
"Look, we beat the No. 1 team in the country. Now people will say, well, the quarterback wasn't there. Still, we feel like we're really as good on any given day as a top team in the country. There's certainly a few teams that have a couple more weapons that can be explosive. But you don't necessarily have to walk around and be the best team every week. You just need to be the best team on that given day."
And we're never the better team on that day. It takes an incredible amount of hubris to keep getting smashed on this stage and think "it just wasn't our day".
"You guys are killing me. Big games, big games. You mean when we play Alabama and Clemson, right? And those are the big games. Those are elite, talented teams that have elite players... I don't have a unique problem at Notre Dame. I think you need to look at the scores that everybody played against Alabama and Clemson. Everybody's got the same issue."
Listen, B+ Brian - this program should not be the same as everybody else. This is Notre Dame. You were hired to be special, not just like everybody else. If our problem is that we aren't an elite team with elite players then that is on you, the coach.
This guy just doesn't get it. This isn't Cincinati. He's been here for how long? He still hasn't figured that out.