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Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4MTrN3BTw
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I have always felt that prior to this year the guy was way too optimistic about Notre Dame - many times predicting that they would challenge for the playoffs. I think that ND has simply burned him too many times by falling flat on their face. Thus he is now playing the percentages - high probability of the Irish falling on their face. Lets hope that he is as wrong with his new pessimistic predictions as he was wrong previously with his overly optimistic predictions.
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For now, I think Ball St was just an aberration, totally different game plan this week..
And when we win, it will be unimpressive.
That is what happens when you have Kelly as a coach.
As I see it, Nick Saban actually believes as Alabama prepares for Coastal Swamp Community College that his players will take the team lightly, Swamp's coaching staff will come up with some unique strategy that will allow an upset, Swamp's QB is about to emerge from his chrysalis as Aaron Rogers II.... His paranoia about these possibilities informs every staff meeting, every meeting and practice and as a result his team is prepared to dominate a team it should dominate whatever it sees from Swamp. There is never a sense of satisfaction with Saban but a wariness of how quickly everything can come undone.
And then there's Kelly. You have only to watch his Ball State week press conference, the absence of self-awareness of self-satisfaction, the knowing banter regarding the possibility of getting young players in when the blowout is underway ... whenever he's in that mode look out. Kelly discounts unknowns (they're going to do what they do; we've played before big crowds before and we practiced with loud noise: Miami, no problem); respecting "lesser" opponents, he discounts the value of beating ND to their program and its coaches and what they might do to achieve it. I think to be a consistently successful ND coach you can never be satisfied, always doubting yourself and always be paranoid about the things you do not know and cannot control and prepare accordingly. That may be why ND's greatest coaches did not have longevity. Who wants to live like that?
With Kelly ND goes up: you doubted me and we've made it ... then it goes down: we've got to change the culture and coach better ... and then it goes up ... and it who will be surprised if it's going down again.
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I'm not going to get into the inexplicable losses.
The problem is these types of performances are the rule, not the exception for Kelly.
Most high quality teams have their full 2nd teams in the game by the 3rd quarter, both giving them real game experience as well as saving wear and tear on the starters. We sweat out the last offensive series in one score games.
Yep, that's the sign of well-coached team!
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-'15 started 10-1, finished 10-3 (and in blow out loss fashion)
-'16 HELLO 4-8 with losses to DUKE (in football!), a garbage at the time NC State, and Navy....AGAIN!!
-'17 started 8-1, finished 10-3 (and in double blow out fashion, uhh thank you very much!) with only a spectacular 6 Million Dollar Man catch vs a weak LSU team allowing Kelly to claim only his 3rd 10 win season in 8 years
But here you are chalking this up as probably a 3rd 10 win season in last 4 years, after what we just saw......vs Ball F'ing State!!!
With what we have left on our schedule and who we have as our head coach, you'd be better served in just hoping this doesn't end up as his 6th 4+ loss season in 9 years.
Hey a win is a win, right.
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Every other team in the top 15 would have put up at least 42 points on that team.
Like someone else posted, this why you end up 9-4.
But you probably think that is something to celebrate!
Mighty IU right now
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And we finished 8-5 that year..
But I'll tell you this, if we play many more games like we did vs Ball State, or like the second half vs michigan, we will seriously be lucky to see 8-5.
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