About 40 years now.
Ditto for myself.
Yes........... he is expecting the kids to play all 4 quarters, as they have. If you haven't noticed one major difference between Weis teams and Kelly teams, is that Kelly teams don't quit, then you haven't been paying ANY attention. Kelly will run a spread that fits the personnel he has. If he has tough inside runners, then he will spread them out and try to run the ball. If he has a scrambler who can sling it, then he will play pass happy.
I'm not asking about effort, I'm asking what is this guy's plan for forming a particular way he wants to play football schematically? I mean it's only been four years. The fact is nobody can answer that because he let's other teams dictate how he calls a game instead of doing what he wants his team to do and make the other team adjust to what they do well. Sure, it's good strategy to an extent, but when you let it totally take you out of what you may do well it's failure. The fact is he has "tough inside runners" on the roster now and a QB with stone feet and he's playing "pass happy." They are playing completely opposite of the example you gave.
Speaking of Weis, watching Brian Kelly formulate a game plan and call plays makes me yearn for the Charlie Weis offense. You want to take cheap shots at him, well here is some food for thought; through 43 games at ND, Brian Kelly 31-12, Charlie Weis 26-17. That's a five game swing and Weis did it with far less talent and far worse facilities. Not to mention that Kelly doesn't sniff the championship game last year without that senior class Weis recruited.
Who cares if it looks like Cincinnnati? This is Notre Dame, not Cincinnati. Your concern is duly noted, and has been filed in the appropriate repository. Kelly has taken a 3 star nobody, in Rees, and turned him into a very solid college QB. Is he going to set the world on fire? No. But he could barely complete a pass beyond 10 yards, two years ago. And he wasn't real particular about which color uniform he threw it to, either, at that time. Now the kid is slinging the rock, and very much appears to have his turnover troubles under control. Kelly could certainly be doing a better job with this team, but he sure as hell isn't doing a BAD job.
At Cincinnati his offense had an identity, his offense at ND does not....that's why I brought it up. I'm betting the development of Tommy Rees has more to do with his maturation as a fifth year senior and the type of person he is more so then Kelly dropping red faced F-bombs on him from the sidelines any time the team goes three and out. Just speculation though, your guess is as good as mine.
I don't make that excuse. But I don't think, based on the previous part of my post, that we need to excuse Kelly's coaching. And certainly not based on your professional assessment of what a DI-A BCS caliber coach should be doing.
Oh come on, you are pretty good at those excuses! Also, your continual attempts to belittle me are really quite comical being that your opinion on things hold no more water than my own.
Unbalanced? Again, I wonder if you are really watching the games? Through 4 games, ND has run the ball 123 times, to 147 passes. That's a 55/45 pass/run split. That's hardly "unbalanced", but don't let the actual facts get in the way of your irrational concern.
