Glad to know Michigan was a positive, learning experience. To my untrained eyes, it was a disgraceful beatdown of an unprepared and poorly coached team.
“And that’s just the maturation of a group of guys that needed to figure out how to go from preparation phase to playing phase, and they learned that at Michigan. They learned that it’s not just about preparation."
“You can work as hard as you want. You have to flip the switch. And they didn’t at Michigan. … Since that time, they’ve learned how to do it. And we’ll be tough to beat down the stretch.”
“You talk about success,” Kelly said. “It doesn't have to have a quantitative bowl game or championship. It has to do with days like today where you see it all come together.
I think that's all Kelly's saying.
Looks like he needs to learn the lesson more than the team.
Teach yer team how to get up for and play big games on the road. He’d had a bye week before scUM as well.
His act is ten years old.
the only difference the last two weeks. Playcalling. Taking what you have and calling plays that fit what they do well. That's why the beat downs have been what they've been. These last two weeks are games that we would have barely won normally. Instead Long went into prove it mode with the playcalling and scrapped the crappy Kelly playbook. The plays have been totally different and fit well with Book's running ability.
Funny how it was all dark and poopy in Ann Arbor.
Not his problem.
Never his problem.
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Sure seems like some coaches manage to get their teams mentally prepared for big games. Might even be part of the job description...
kelly is blameless.
future teams learn this ("how to go from preparation phase to playing phase") without suffering defeats that end your ability to achieve what you claim is the goal of the program, to win championships? There will be a turnover in personnel each season and, if this is really a lesson that needed to be learned, then I assume it will need to be learned again.
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Some people here cannot enjoy even a beat-down victory.
What did you want him to say?
I don't hate Kelly. ND football is the most well-positioned it has been since Lou, without question. Kelly deserves thanks for that.
I'd appreciate if our head coach could enjoy a tremendous win over a ranked team without using it as a platform to excuse HIS abhorrent coaching performance. Instead, he launches into a nonsensical diatribe about his team's latest big game embarrassment - 'they' in his parlance.
“And that’s just the maturation of a group of guys that needed to figure out how to go from preparation phase to playing phase, and they learned that at Michigan. They learned that it’s not just about preparation. You can work as hard as you want. You have to flip the switch. And they didn’t at Michigan. … Since that time, they’ve learned how to do it. And we’ll be tough to beat down the stretch.”
Sure, Brian, 'they' just didn't flip the switch at Michigan. You had absolutely nothing to do with that.
Fuck that.
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So in other words, when they were taught this same lesson two years ago in Miami that wasn't enough. Although that lesson apparently spring boarded them into a playoff run, they had to be retaught this lesson this year. And the coach of 30 years experience could not have warned them. It is not his job. But now we can expect another playoff run next year. Or at least until Wisconsin feels obliged to administer another such lesson. Or maybe Clemson.
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How convenient for him that the they have flipped the switch at a point of the season that means nothing.
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What a freaking joke!
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But it's nothing for him to beat his chest about as if all is well and Kelly 3.0 is now reporting for duty.
ZERO reason to believe anything would be different if we played michigan or Georgia again..
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‘They’ didn’t do that at Michigan.
Good point, BGB.
he had his chest puffed out and a smug look on his face, just like when he said "Get used to it".
Listening to anything that dude has to say is a colossal waste of time to anyone but BK.
I trust he is more motivating in person in the locker room and on the field...
Ditto Belichick.
Me want Fleck. Him rah-rah. Dat good. Dat real good.
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his pregame and halftime speeches. The guy epitomizes the phrase "knows the words, doesn't know the music".
Electric.
with fewer than 9 wins over a quarter century. He was smart enough to have fiery coordinators, especially on D. He became the honored, esteemed figure head that players would go through walls to please. Temperament pretty similar to this guy named Bryant who had a decent career somewhere down south....