Comments on: Thoughts on Brian Kelly as Notre Dame’s next coach

By: CoachK15

CoachK15 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:43:02 +0000

For the most part I agree that Kelly had to take the job & Notre Dame had to offer him the job because nobody else wanted it. But the real question here is the BCS. All indicators are that Kelly would’ve stayed if a National Title was in offing, but because of the BCS format a Big East school as no shot in trumping Big 12, 10, SEC, or Pac-10 schools for the title game. I often wonder if the Big East even deserves BCS status…I really believe that the Mountain West is a tougher conference (see 2009 bowl season) and more deserving. Until the BCS system accounts for the inequity of tradition/perception then it will be fundamentally flawed in naming a legit national champion.

By: Jno

Jno — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:58:50 +0000

4.0 Point Stance says:
December 15, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Sacre Bleu! Les Francais sont arrives!

don’t forget
Notre Dame a étè fondée par des moines français!!!
Let’s go notre dame

By: footballlb51

footballlb51 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:03:40 +0000

I don’t think Brian Kelly will do much better than Charlie Weis at Notre Dame. I also don’t like that he is supposedly pro-choice (if that is true). People keep saying it’s ridiculous that that would even be an issue when hiring a coach and that’s it’s innapropriate to ask that but I disagree. It is very important since Notre Dame is a CATHOLIC school. From ND’s official website: “We have a much more challenging mission than most universities. Most universities strive simply to be excellent educational institutions by the accepted standards of the profession. We do this at Notre Dame, and we have had great success. But we also foster and celebrate a distinctive mission to be a Catholic university, inspired and guided by a great spiritual tradition.” -Reverend John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President
It is clearly very important that the candidate is pro-life, because as a Catholic myself, the school should represent Catholic values, if that is in fact their mission at a SCHOOL. Athletics should complement the institution’s mission statement.

By: InterestedObserver

InterestedObserver — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:01 +0000

I’m not sure if the “Dave” whose posts appear is one guy or two, but here’s a clarification of a couple of whopper misconceptions he/they have put forth:

The quarterback at Grand Valley after Curt Anes was Cullen Finnerty, whom you describe as “no great shakes.”

Are you kidding? Finnerty led Grand Valley to THREE national championships (including one as a freshman) and four playoff appearances. As a senior he narrowly missed out on winning the D-II equivalent of the Heisman in an epic upset. Additionally, he won more games as a starting quarterback than anyone in college football history…by a mile. By any and ALL accounts he was one great player, who played briefly in the NFL.

As for Kelly and Michigan and Michigan State, why hold something against him for what THEY didn’t do? And while Michigan might not have considered Kelly seriously, Michigan State certainly did. Kelly was the choice of university president Lou Anna Simon, who got talked out of it by an athletic department faction led by Tom Izzo. The in-house people wanted D’Antonio because he had been on the football staff during Nick Saban’s days. Nothing wrong with that, but in the years since then D’Antonio’s team have made it into zero BCS games, while Kelly’s team have gotten into two.

By: 4.0 Point Stance

4.0 Point Stance — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:17:26 +0000

Sacre Bleu! Les Francais sont arrives!

By: FootballXOsBlog » 2009 » December » 15

FootballXOsBlog » 2009 » December » 15 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:05:25 +0000

[...] C’est maintenant chose faite. Après avoir congédié Charlie Weis, les Fighting Irish de l’université Notre Dame viennent de trouver son remplaçant en la personne de Brian Kelly. Kelly était jusqu’à tout récemment l’entraîneur-chef de l’université Cincinnati. Il aura la très difficile mission de redorer le blason de la célèbre université. Très bonne analyse de cette annonce sur smartfootball. [...]

By: Blitz Package

Blitz Package — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:39:37 +0000

•In terms of recruiting, Kelly has done an excellent job getting talent into Cincy, and will continue to recruit many of the same areas.

The Cincy kids he had with the braids and the shades will never get into Notre Dame. And Cincy has always been a good recruiting hub for Notre Dame even before Kelly.

This guy has the schemes what he needs to bring is an attitude of being mean and tough.

By: OldSouth

OldSouth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:30:22 +0000

My apologies then, Topher. I thought you were trying to trying to make a thinly-veiled gripe. Most people who post in that manner are trying to make such a point. But I can see that I was wrong in reading your reasoning for it. Sorry.

By: Topher

Topher — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:38:45 +0000

OldSouth – Sorry to ruffle your feathers, but Chris is one of the best football researchers I’ve read, so I wanted to ask him pointedly if he had looked at things through those particular angles.

It’s not a rhetorical point – it’s a question. Ingram’s Heisman award appears to be statistically anomalous.

By: OldSouth

OldSouth — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:25:16 +0000

Topher,

Making a long rhetorical point when you could just type it out declaratively makes you look like a douche.