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Link: Brian Kelly Gives The Keys To Notre Dame's Offense to Tommy Rees, Again
I have some trepidation about the move. Wish he had broader experience to bring to the table....
We can't point to anything empirical that says this is going to work. The bowl game was nice, but it's objectively not enough. A lot of people have faith in him though--including people connected to the program, but not in the program--and others in the media, like Dan Orlovskey and Kirk Herbstreit. Not proof of anything, but it's notable. This is a big risk and a huge bet on Rees, as well as on Taylor. He's given the offense to two guys who've never had an offense, at any level. We'll see.
Very unusual. Kelly is incredibly lazy on this one, IMHO.
I doubt other teams with national title aspirations would have hired Jeff Scott and Tony Elliott to be OC’s in 2014 when Clemson promoted them to be co-coordinators either. Worked out ok for them. Rees has value here he doesn’t have elsewhere, just as those two did at Clemson.
As for the laziness, maybe it is, I can’t really say. I don’t know how the search went. It certainly appears to have been in the bag from the beginning though, but maybe that’s just spin in hindsight. I assume we’ll find out more from the beat in the coming days.
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The best programs are thinking outside the box all the time. Why do we care if Alabama or Clemson would do this? (And by the way, I think if Saban thought a 27 year old could do it, he wouldn't blink.)
If you think it's a lazy hire then ok, but the "other teams wouldn't do this" argument seems like a shadow objection to me. What is it really?
We had a decided schematic advantage under Weis. kelly told us to get used to it after his stunning losses.
His bravado has yet to backed up.
rees is another bravado move.
I hope rees can succeed. But at this point it’s all boy genius hype.
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...at East Carolina and FAU, respectively, ...
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