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As an aside, isn't it freaking weird that Kelly came to ND as a QB whisperer... a guy who took nobodies with little talent and made them dominant college players... and the QB position is one the one position that has been a mess since he got here? Not the defense that was awful under Weis... he turned that around in a jiffy. Not the positions with disastrous depth like CB... he plugged in a true frosh RB and boom... solid play. Literally every other position besides the one he was supposed to be the guru for is playing at a very high level. ND has always been the cradle of QBs capable of attracting that type of kid no matter... we were supposed to not be able to recruit the DL because kids from the south "don't like cold" and yet we have two 1st rounders from the south manning the trenches? What??
QB? Inherited a 5... looked like he would play for a couple years and then we'd move on to his heir... and so on and so forth... and then injury, Tommy Rees, mental implosion, back to Tommy Rees, to RS frosh work-in-progress, and now back to Tommy Rees/Hendrix... with potentially only 1 scholarship QB on the roster next year if we don't get multiple people in this class or get Hendrix to stick around.
I mean seriously... what the ****? It's just a disaster. There is no way of sugar coating it we basically need 1-2 QBs in this class (which is God awful for QBs) or a transfer into the program of some sort.
The offensive skill position recruiting in this cycle is going to be really interesting to watch moving forward.
I see where you are going with this, but I personally do not blame Kelly for this (not saying you do, but some people feel differently).
Dayne was a great person that lost confidence in himself. Was BK responsible for this? I would say yes, but only to certain degrees.
The QB's he has recruited have been Golson, Gunner and MZ. I think you could argue that recruiting QB's have not been the problem, but keeping them on the roster has been. Gunner saw the writing on the wall that he would have a hard time getting on the field. I cannot blame Gunner for transferring and I cannot blame Kelly either. I also cannot blame Kelly for what happened to Golson. That is all on EG.
To me, we focus too much on what hasn't gone right compared to what has. From all accounts, EG was going to have a breakout year. The way Kelly developed EG last year and the way he was able to make sure TR was engaged mentally all year speaks volume to both Kelly and the players.
I feel the QB situation has been so unlucky, it is laughable. If EG doesn't make a boneheaded move, we are fine. If EG makes the boneheaded move 2 months earlier, we are fine. The timing was so very unlucky for Kelly, that I find it very difficult to say he is responsible for it.
