Sorry about the spellings, but I find it humorous. People use to say Kelly was a mini-Weis. I always said there was no way. I was wrong. What is his record vs. top 15 teams? I bet its pretty bad. He beats most of the bad teams though. I hope Jack is proactive in looking for his replacement. I think there is a good chance it will happen at the end of this season. Kelly has produced a lot of bad seasons at ND. He peaked in 2012, and we are miles from that now. His biggest mistake was hiring Van Girdle. I am looking forward to the future now . Go Irish.
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Maybe he was referring to Rachel Weisz.
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2015 was a fine season, even with the unfortunate situations, especially given that we did make it to the Fiesta Bowl.
2014's season was forgivable, since we were starting 4th stringers on defense by the end of the year.
2013 was about as good of a season that we could have hoped for, given Golson's academic blunders. Yes, it could have been a 10+ win season, but all things considered, Coach Kelly was able to squeeze out everything he could from Tommy Rees.
I do agree that hiring Van Gorder was a mistake.
I bet any excuse I give you will be accepted without question.
Sign me up.
I'd end up divorcing you faster than I did with my ex-wife.
A lot of excuses....he is the head football coach. the buck stops there. Period.
He has been given far more slack than any of his predecessors since Holtz. He is getting people now with the lowest SAT scores in over a decade and GPAs to go with it. We arent recruiting rocket scientists.
There are no excuses.
That being said he is a huge improvement over his predecessors; not sure what happened to the wheels on the bus this year. But they fell off.
Top teams still find a way. We have had decades of excuses. I hope I live long enough to see a NC.
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Wisconsin, Houston, Louisville, Washington, etc. I get that ND doesn't have the overall talent of Bama or Ohio State. But ND has as good or better talent than every team they've played, and better than most teams they will play this year.
You know the usual
Talent
Academics
Weather
Women
Administration is out to screw them
Our guys go to class
etc
etc
etc
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His downfall was an inability to recruit in the trenches. Those OL's & front 7's on D, from 2007 on, were atrocious and completely out manned by most teams.
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He never made it out of September without a loss and had a career September record of 13-9 while at Notre Dame. He was also 2-3 against Michigan State including losses of 17 and 16 points in 2007 and 2009.
Nothing he did while at Notre Dame would suggest that he would be 4-0 in this situation.
1) Not saying he was a good coach at all. Just that he could have done a much better job than BK and staff have done this year. Normally I would take BK all day before Weis. But he has shit the bed this year, with a roster that should be 4-0 given the competition played.
2) The talent on this team shouldn't require a great coaching staff to go 4-0. Weis would have given his left nut to have this much talent. On both sides of the ball.
3) No one would have won a lot with the talent from 2007-2009, so not sure why this is even brought into the equation.
2nd round NFL pick Jimmy Clausen at QB
2nd round NFL pick Golden Tate at WR
1st round NFL pick Michael Floyd at WR
2nd round NFL pick Kyle Rudolph at TE
All on the offense alone
On defense, KLM, Harrison Smith, Robert Blanton, Daris Fleming, and Ian Williams all had NFL careers.
Not to mention, Weis had a full four recruiting classes to improve the talent.
due to terrible recruiting. Excellent skill position talent, but games are won and lost in the trenches. And those teams lost a lot because of it.
ND had talent on both lines. If you're talking about 07, okay. But 2009 was not "god awful" in the trenches talentwise. That was Weis's 5th year. Every starter on the OL and DL were at least 4* recruits, with the exception of Ian Williams (3*) at NT -- and Williams was a good player.
I'm going by the nightmares I still have of Navy, UConn and Syracuse owning us up front, especially in the second halves of those games.
He shit the bed that year anyway, managing to lose to the likes of Navy and UConn.
He has pretty much sucked the rest of the time.
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Hardly seasons worth noting re: soft schedules. Hard to say he beat one decent team.
Weis took pretty talented teams and won quite a few games with them. That was the point.
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