Is this just more lip service, or do you think these changes will make a substantial difference in the W/L column?
Link: New & Improved BK
-Having a single person game planning and calling plays might be "better" at the bottom line (hard to tell without knowing what the replaced process would do). The management challenge is what happens if expectations are not being met - that is the test of this type of decision.
-The "full time full control" O coordinator certainly means that the head coach has some more time and energy to focus elsewhere. Would love to know the answer.
-Doing exit interviews and doing something with the result is good news. However, it implies the same process was not in place before. Again would love to know about that too.
-The yoga thing again might help if anger was actually negatively affecting decisions or if Kelly thought it was. Always remember Vince Lombardi as someone who was the embodiment of an emotional coach whose decision making was unaffected. His players adapted by realizing his outbursts were not personal but rather about what they did or didn't do.
Found it instructive that people who teach executive management courses (like the Amer Mgmt Association) do not consider personality to be a critical aspect of effectiveness but have a list of some 20 core knowledges, skills, and abilities are their key factors.
To me personality is really most relevant when it affects how a person or organization functions in its environment. Over the years just about every coach in every sport I follow who went from the penthouse to the outhouse had perceived detrimental traits that often were there in the good times but become part of the "reason" for why a change was needed. In our world most would not care an iota what kind of personality a coach who won a BCS championship has until their team dropped out of playoffs and the big bowl scene. In our case the fan base seems to want a Tom Landry style and success until the time change is needed and then its Vince Lombardi
I could see an article like this during the Ara or Holtz eras. This is what happens when you hire a coach not ready for prime time. Every coach always can still learn things but lets face facts, Kelly was in over his head from day one. Alabama and Saban proved that once he got in the big game. His record against Top 25 competition also proves that. I would love to see Kelly succeed for the best interest of ND but that shit show he put on last year was terrible and the team quit on him plain and simple. All this off season bull shit propaganda isn't going to change that much and what else is he going to say in the off season. I always root for my school but lets not sugar coat it, they sucked and quit and unless they had 12 graduate transfers over the summer that I did not read about don't expect major changes.
I was of the opinion a couple of months ago that Kelly had reached his ceiling. Now I'm not so sure.
The changes that have been made are very positive. And the players didn't quit on Kelly; they quit on themselves, if you read the SI story. And if the players detest Kelly so much, why are they insisting he be around more?
From all accounts, it appears there is a new, and more importantly, genuine energy in the ND program, complete with tangible changes that have every bit the look of drastic improvements. If I had the money to bet and you gave be the over/under number of wins in 2017 at 9 1/2, I'd be hard pressed not to take the over.
very ready. If they played a week after the season, the more talented team, Alabama, loses a lot of their advantage. Kelly is more than a solid coach as he showed in 2015 also overcoming a ton of injuries. It is so typical for fans to blame the coach when it is the players mostly not executing. They did it to Bear Bryant, they used to do it to Ara and in the end they were doing it to Holtz. Dean Smith and Jim Beoheim are two examples of basketball coaches they did it to also. In fact prior the Dean Smith's first national title, fans were burning him in effigy. Coaches are always learning and adjusting as normal people do on their jobs.
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Its not lip service that he's making significant changes. Unknown if these changes will lead to better results.
Interesting article to say the least. Time will tell if it is legit.
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He should know what plays are being called, even if Long is the one making those calls.
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Even if they didn't call it.
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ess of what he says. We'll all be surprised if he doesn't throw the ball all over the field again, if he refused to take advantage of his massive OL, etc. Now, go suck on your ND water bottle and think about last year's 4 wins.
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The major change that was made, letting go of BVG, he had to be forced to do.
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