Its been 34 years since we had a national championship. Although Kelly took Notre Dame to a national championship game in 2012 that was just an illusion. The players are the ones who got there DESPITE Kelly's lousy coaching and lousy attitude. Kelly sucked as a head coach and didn't give a damn about Notre Dame or the players. The way he departed Notre Dame tesifies to that.
After 34 year of this mediocre play its high time the adminsitration gets off its collective asses and starts remembering what made Notre Dame "NOTRE DAME." Like it or niot, it was high caliber football that made Notre Dame a household name, and built that campus with all the money it brought in.
But since 1988 it appears plain to see that the administration has forgotten that, and hired lame coaches and terrible, awful ADs who have insured Notre Dame football is sub-par. And its time for the adminsitration... AND THE WEALTHY ALUMS AND DONORS... to step up and put an end to this mediocrity.
They need to hire and pay a first-rate, no-nonsense head coach and coaching staff, and then go out and recruit players who want to work their asses off to win, win, win.
Also, knock off this crap of hiring head coaches who have never been head coaches elsewhere before they came to Notre Dame. Notre Dame has done that a number of times and its always been a disaster. Hire experienced head coaches and pay them a competitive salary... for God's sake!!! THE HEAD COACH POSITION AT NOTRE DAME IS NOT, AND SHOULD NOT BE, AN "ON-THE-JOB-TRAINING" POSITION. For the love of God, knock that off once and for all!!!
They also need to ban any player from this "portal" bullshit. That has only insured players can get on a merry-go-round of switching school whenever they want... THAT is pure bullshit!!! And Notre Dame needs to make sure players there are somehow barred from engaging in it. And that CAN BE DONE! No excuses.
Get with it, Notre Dame adminsitration. Its time to clean house and get people who know what the hell they're doing!!!
injury is very significant and I know few were happy right now. IMO it was the lack of protection and the fact that his receivers never have helped him. That pass to Lenzy should have been caught and the fairly long one to Mayer down the sideline was perfect. The play calling for Buchner for the first quarter was horrific. If we let him run a little early we never would have been in the position where we had to run him and maybe the injury could have been avoided.
Recruiting coordinator? Absolutely PR Rep? Sure Head Coach? uhhhh
He didn't have the sack to trump Rees and save the bowl game, he thought he developed a tough team in camp but now we see they are pretty soft, he thought he was at Disneyland exiting at halftime vs tosu and his team played like game was over in 2nd half, and he just stood there getting into not one single person's ass during entire Marshall game.
I could surely be wrong on this, but I personally have seen nothing to suggest some great potential as a HC and he absolutely doesn't look ready at all at this point.
He seems to be a great guy, and that will carry him for a while but if he doesn't develop the chops of a HC quick, fast and in a hurry, he'll be toast.
And the evidence of this mythical "upside" as head coach is to be found "where" exactly?
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from the attached article on Fr. Hesburgh (note: Fr. Jenkins is very much in this mold)...
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“I’d have to say hiring Ara was one of the smartest things we did,” Hesburgh said. “But Ned’s ideal of athletics’ place in the academic model and mine had never wavered. People might have just thought it did. We always believed athletics were subsidiary to academics.”
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I'm glad you're a fan of Notre Dame, but you need to accept all of what makes it 'special'...winning a "Natty" will never be #1 on any ND administration's priority list.
Link: https://www.ndinsider.com/story/sports/football/2015/02/27/reflecting-on-father-hesburghs-impact-on-the-nd-sports-scene/46594503/
Never said uit had to be the number one priority... just A PRIORITY that can generate a large revenue base.
A Vanderbilt type footy team won’t cut it there. Duke is even more highly rated academically, but they will also always have a top b ball program.
Where do some people get this MYTH that a univerrsity cannot have great academics AND great athletics?
Walking and chewing gum at the same time.... DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!
bringing in 13 Transfer Portal Players in one season, effectively showing that same number of H.S. recruits the door...but that's what other schools who crave athletics over academics (and morality) are doing....not going to happen at ND...yet, the desire is...within limits...to strongly support the Football Program...let's all light a candle at the Grotto that it works out.
Marcus needs to be given this entire season...and into next year...to show his worth...let's not over react, as difficult as that may be.
btw, I've witnessed the "Phantom Holding Call" at USC, so I've endured my share of heartbreaks...and subsequent joys...hang in there.
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Very True. My mistake. I will correct my post. Thank you!!!
ND is too big a job for rookie head coaches. This is not a school where you pay your dues and learn how to coach.
It's only been two games and Marshall might be a lot better than we think. Texas A&M didn't look good yesterday on offense, either, to another Sun Belt Conference team.
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If so, WHY didn't we know how good Marshall was?
Don't the coaches scout opposing teams?
It all comes down to the fact that we have a novice head coach who is obviously in over his head.
Three games as head coach... three losses!
And if you look up all those head coaches you mentioned you will see that they has extensive experience before becoming head coaches... much, much moer that Freeman.
IIRISHTERP... are you an alum of Maryland by any chance?
Exacrtly!!!
As I stated in my comments... Notre Dame has hired first-time head coaches in the past and the resaults have been disastorous.
Lou Holtz worked his way up through a number of schools as an assistant and THEN head coach at a couple of schools before comibng to Notre Dame... as did Parseghian, Devine, and so on. This "on-the-job-training" of head coaches at Notre Dame must stop, once and for all!!!
respected and I am positive he will get results. He is upside is very high, also for me I am willing to give a class act at least 3 years.
Fine! YOU give him three tyears... while many of us thought he had no head coaching experience and should have gotten a lot of it before EVER being head coach at Notre Dame.
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