at ND. A three-year run, winning 10 regular-season games. 32-6 in the last 3 years and 46-17 in five years is pretty impressive. There were plenty of ups and downs but considering the shape of the program when he got here you've gotta be thankful for where it is now vs. then.
The volume of wins vs. losses isn't something you can ignore, even if he is a frustrating coach to live through.
The last stretch similar to 2012-2019 was 1988 - 1993... a long, long time ago. There wasn't a 4-8 year then, but regardless that's the last time we've seen a run even remotely similar to the last handful of years.
It far exceeds what the three dumbasses did who preceded Kelly.
That said. There should be some acknowledgement that the 12 game regular season became the norm in 2006 during Weis. Prior to that winning 10 was considerably more difficult.
It is certainly an accomplishment that shows a level of achievement in today’s landscape but does not really equate with the past.
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in '17 we were 9-3 in regular season and got 10th win vs LSU in the bowl.
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needed a bowl win to get it and that was two years ago, but if we lost to Stanford tonight and needed to win some shit bowl to get win 10 it woulda felt empty imo.
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LSU had a pretty down year and still outplayed us for the majority of that game, only the epic one handed catch and score from Boykin saved the day, not any inspirational team play or coaching effort.
The first half of Stanford game yesterday was very similar to that entire LSU game.
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No. But, when they played the big boys they almost always won. Most importantly they played the teams in their division and as much outside it as they could. They put up an impressive record playing the same teams as everyone else in their league. No one else in their league did the same.
ND is much the same. They play the same relative schedule as many teams on par with them, or similar to teams they aspire to be like (top 10 teams). Not many of those have a similar record to ND over this span.
Given the years in advance of scheduling you can't really have an idea of how good or bad a team will be when you put them on the schedule; unless it's 2 years and in. Yes, ND scheduled more than normal weaker teams, but Bama plays at least 6 if not more such teams every season.
Bama 2019: Duke, NM State, Southern Miss, Western Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee and then there is Ole Miss and Miss. St. --- That's 4 gimmie's. 2 more pretty much gimmie's and 2 wins without much effort. This is a pretty normal Bama schedule during their recent decade of domination in CFB.
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