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Link: Notre Dame Makes Great RB Coach Hire with Lance Taylor
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Nope
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Sheesh, with all these 'home run' coaches he hires, you'd think we'd have better results unless there is something or someone is holding them back.
How many of us here actually thought ND had a chance to make the playoffs this year, let alone a New Years Bowl? I seem to recall that most everyone saw Notre Dame getting at least 2 losses, they pulled out an undefeated season that no one saw coming. We lose in the semifinals to Clemson who blew out Alabama.
..and one of those three was entirely vacated. Is that what you consider "home run" like performance?
If Kelly really is the coach so many on here desperately cling to, and his recruiting is great, AND he surrounds himself with a bunch of home run hire assistants, wouldn't you expect to have good seasons more than 44% of the time and maybe some of the good seasons actually end with wins on the big stage (or hell even a respectable showing) instead of constant woodshed beatings..??
Something doesn't add up if you ask me..
Well he avearges 9-3.88 over 9 seasons, but if you factor in two random 12W seasons that would get you more in the neighborhood 8-4.
The coaching staff has taken a huge step up from where it had been.This coach has the pedigree to achieve success as an RB coach at the FBS level, with two players he coached/recruited who were finalist for the Heisman, but those aren't the facts we want to discuss today.
They don't gotta pay anything, in fact they are getting paid.
I'm just pointing out how silly it is to claim Kelly continues to hit home runs with coaching hires. How many of these coaches were on board when we got woodsheded by Miami, Stanford and Clemson the last two years.
Is it not fair to expect better prepared and competitive games against the big boys under the bright lights IF a good HC surrounds himself with home run assistants and does great in recruiting..??
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and had his finger prints on it for a long time now.
In the winter, downtown SBN, and on and on.
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It's in your mind...the same flaws Kelly displayed in '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, and '16 are still there.
You pretend there is some Kelly2.0 that's totally recreated himself and your evidence is this current two year swell...but what you ignore is that he had a nearly identical swell in 2012 and 2013 (only a one game difference, both including a disaster on the big stage with a middle of the road bowl win the other year) yet 2014 and 2016 shit shows still happened. He's the same as he ever was.
If he completes another 10+ win season this year instead of his obligatory drop off season(s) I will be HUGELY impressed and start to ease off of him...and with every successive 10+ win season after that he will inch me closer to his corner, BUT if he has another less than 10 win season prior to bringing home a Natty his ass should be out the door pronto.
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Link: https://247sports.com/Player/Phil-Jurkovec-86287/high-school-155850/
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