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That statement alone tells you all you need to know about him as a coach.

And two scores.

Clearly Notre Dame didn't focus on the run game, Tony Jones barely got any work, and if they had the numbers would have looked better. Wouldn't change the situation next week though; Notre Dame doesn't have a healthy back on the roster that will scare Georgia in any way, and Notre Dame will have to do a lot of work to keep Georgia honest in the running game.

in the box than the coordinator ought to be given credit for changing his strategy that allowed big finesse plays to work.

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That's pretty embarrassing.

Q. But in the big picture, you mentioned to us at the beginning of season, running the ball and stopping the run were two big identity points for you. Where do you feel you are with those two things right now?

COACH BRIAN KELLY: I think good. I mean, we've got to have better -- look, you know, stopping the run by and large, you know, they were committed to running the football today. I think they had almost 50 carries. You can't -- you know, you can't beat us, you know, running it 50 times with just two big plays. We don't want to give up any big plays. Our top-down run support's got to be better. Our safety support's got to be better to. It our fit by the backers has got to be better. We'll get that cleaned up. We're not getting pushed off the ball. We're not getting manhandled. None of that concerns me at all.


From an offensive line standpoint, could we have been better today? Probably. But they weren't going to let us run the ball up inside, so we are going to move to some of the things that we can do. We threw for almost 450 yards.

That's the nature of college football today. You'd better be able to do both. If you can't run it because they don't want you to run it, you'd better throw it, and if you can't, you're in trouble, and I think we can do both.

there is a real problem. Don’t care if they are loading the box or not.

That is a good indicator of what kind of coach Kelly is.

Just playing Devil’s advocate here. Is there any wisdom in “imposing your will” just for the sake of it? Even if it is the 114th team in the country, they can make it difficult for you. You might have to slug it out for 2+ quarters to really break it open on the ground. That risks injury and overworking your team for no reason.

We are already thin at RB and Georgia is the next game. Why not take the path of least resistance? Work on other things and make it easy on your players (especially Oline and RBs). We rolled up 66 points without trying to hard.

consistently? It should be a no brainer that we can gain short yardage on a team like that when we need it.

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better teams if they continue to attack the area where the defense is focused.

We couldn’t even pick up a yard on third down. Awful.

This team barely beat Sam Houston State.

From an offensive line standpoint, could we have been better today? Probably. But they weren't going to let us run the ball up inside, so we are going to move to some of the things that we can do. We threw for almost 450 yards.

That's the nature of college football today. You'd better be able to do both. If you can't run it because they don't want you to run it, you'd better throw it, and if you can't, you're in trouble, and I think we can do both.


Link: http://www.asapsports.com/show_conference.php?id=153575

Could be trouble

We simply stopped running the ball, and worked more on the passing game.

You arent worried at all?

the run. We will run better against them then either previous games. Are you scared? I guarantee we go toe to toe with them.

Give you one thing, an eternal optimist