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as a replacement for Kelly...Good grief, I thought, what a disaster he would have been at ND AND I knew it at the time..
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Most of them eventually flop in their respective programs.
replacement.
You have to choose a point in time that it's the time to take that chance...and hopefully have experienced people do their due diligence and choose the best fit available. And then...you still take your chances after hiring. That's how it goes. There are no "sure things"...
For me, the point in time is now. We have tried Kelly for 10 years and we know what the ceiling is. There is no reason in my mind to be going further. I'd vote him off the island...
There are those here who are very content with this ceiling...for whatever reason. I do not understand this line of thinking...but I obviously know it exists.
With Kelly I know that each successful, or approaching successful, regular season will end with an embarrassing trip to the woodshed. To be honest, had Michigan laid down in Ann Arbor, ND would be going to a major bowl against a quality opponent and the humiliation would have been delivered there. At least with a middling bowl you get a middling opponent who may be unmotivated. Kelly has an 80% shot of pulling off a victory in the mid to bad bowls.
I get that Kelly's three years of 10 wins or better gets him the extension that'll put him ahead of Holtz and Rockne in wins. Unfortunate in my book.
I am well aware that my view has no foothold with the decision makers. So be it, I always root for the team to do well.
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promise land. It takes a helluva an effort to have undefeated seasons these days and he has done it twice.
And Clemson on the schedule. 2022 and 2023 have both Clemson and Ohio State on the schedule.
2021 is probably the most favorable schedule with Wisconsin at Soldier Field and USC at home that year...but will likely feature an untested QB.
I no longer see any chance at “the promised land” with Kelly. We know who he is. But I always hope...
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A coach who has flopped one place and then regathered? Even better.
I thought O'Leary, for instance, was a very good hire until the resume fiasco. I have no doubt he would've been a good coach at ND. Find a guy like that. Particularly in the past decade, we have seen scores and scores of these flavor of the month coaches fail miserably.
...and I agree with you on that for the most part.
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Whether he’s a fit for ND, it’s a roll of the dice. Right now I would take him over Fleck.
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interested. I said "Kelly ain't the guy," as in the guy to take ND to a championship, back in 2010/2011, so the idea that I'm this Kelly apologist or booster is silly. But that doesn't preclude me from pointing out these really stupid proposals for whom to consider and hire. Nearly all of them have proven little or nothing, while the others have worse records than Kelly.
I don’t believe you are, nor am I. And after all these years about who could and would become the HC at ND won’t matter as long as Kelly decides he’s going nowhere. He won’t be fired.
money he wants. My bet is he gets what he wants on both counts.