Brian Kelly Revisited (RIP BOZO)

[dublinirish]

 

[Dale]

I’ll never understand his issue with alumni

 

[Dale]

They copied our whole fucking flow! Word for word, bar for bar

 

[SportsingHard]

Hilarious. Good on Josh.

 

[GoldenAura]

Matt Fortuna on the latest Independent Podcast with Pete Sampson:

"Me and you (Pete Sampson) said this a million times, and we got killed for it. Kelly figured something out in life that is enviable. He did not work particularly hard when he was out of the office. He made a lot of money, he golfed a lot, he went to the lake. He figured out how to win 10 games a year on auto-pilot without really picking up the phone to recruit. Coaches liked working for him because he was not an overbearing boss. I don't know how he figured this out in a profession where the burnout rate is incredibly high, but he did. And he went to the SEC and tried the same thing...and that's ultimately how it fell apart, he felt he could get away with not doing a lot of things that are expected at LSU."

I got a chuckle when he said this: "From my understanding, Brian Kelly was really close with Kim Mulkey. Nobody is close with Kim Mulkey. That's a hilarious comedy that needs to be made."

I didn’t listen to the whole pod but Fortuna also mentioned something I hadn’t heard before about BK’s departure from ND.

After Kelly’s half assed goodbye/explanation to the players, he left the room and made a comment to someone that “I need to go get Tommy and Marcus (to speak to them) because I’m gonna get them to come with me”. Other staffers heard him and essentially told him to get lost, and by the next day BK was locked out of the building because his finger ID was deactivated lol

Not sure if everyone else already heard this story, but it was new to me. I’m never gonna feel bad for this narcissist and thank god we have Freeman.

 

[Valpodoc85]

If Saban was still at Alabama do you think he would try and rehab Kelly or look the other way?

 

[IrishLax]

If Saban was still at Alabama do you think he would try and rehab Kelly or look the other way?

Look the other way. He provides no value from a football brain / schematic standpoint. Every coach he rehabbed was "sharp"

 

[ab2cmiller]

If Saban was still at Alabama do you think he would try and rehab Kelly or look the other way?

Virtually everyone he “rehabbed” were coaches that were heavily involved in offensive systems and offensive play calling at previous stops. It felt like Saban would hire these guys on the cheap hoping to glean offensive minded nuggets before they moved on.

BK is so far removed from that world that I suspect Saban would have no interest.

 

[IrishLax]

I didn’t listen to the whole pod but Fortuna also mentioned something I hadn’t heard before about BK’s departure from ND.

After Kelly’s half assed goodbye/explanation to the players, he left the room and made a comment to someone that “I need to go get Tommy and Marcus (to speak to them) because I’m gonna get them to come with me”. Other staffers heard him and essentially told him to get lost, and by the next day BK was locked out of the building because his finger ID was deactivated lol

Not sure if everyone else already heard this story, but it was new to me. I’m never gonna feel bad for this narcissist and thank god we have Freeman.

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

 

[KPENN]

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

Well come on now…..

 

[IrishSteelhead]

I’ll never understand his issue with alumni

This phenomenon can be described with a simple analogy:

Alumni are guys who earned their bones bleeding in a foxhole as a grunt with their brothers, like the current players

BK is the guy who enlisted after getting a college degree and was immediately made an officer

BK has theoretical knowledge, alumni have practical knowledge. The level of respect and admiration given to one is far more than the other.

He suffocates when he isn’t the center of attention.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[rikkitikki08]

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

I’d love to hear the Mike Elston story

 

[GoldenAura]

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

Oh please do share.

 

[Bane]

Look the other way. He provides no value from a football brain / schematic standpoint. Every coach he rehabbed was "sharp"

Virtually everyone he “rehabbed” were coaches that were heavily involved in offensive systems and offensive play calling at previous stops. It felt like Saban would hire these guys on the cheap hoping to glean offensive minded nuggets before they moved on.

BK is so far removed from that world that I suspect Saban would have no interest.

Agreed with both of these. Guys like Sark and Kiffin are known playcallers (I think Sark is a touch overrated, Kiffin is a great playcaller), what would BK do? BK is a "CEO" type coach and Saban wouldn't have needed that. I also don't think BK's pride would allow him to do that anyways.

 

[forkbeard3777]

I’m aware this sounds a little cuckoo, but even if we hire a dud and/or fail big time in the next couple of years, merely changing direction and cutting ties with him has me so excited and relieved

 

[ThePiombino]

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

LAX doing us dirty lol

 

[dublinirish]

Jake Flint lol remember him?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[KPENN]

LAX doing us dirty lol

Very not gangster behavior

 

[BeatSC]

ND staffer (not an assistant coach, some GA or something) started getting the face of the ref during (I think) a BC game. BK reacted as shown.

Pretty sure that was David Givens

 

[NDbrbkny]

And I hear BOZO has lawyers on deck

 

[Kingbish01]

If you think the Mike Elston story is good, you should hear the Matt Lefleur story.

 

[IrishinSyria]

This feels like trolling but:

 

[Notre Dame Joe]

I am in trial this week, what happened?

 

[Huntr]

This feels like trolling but:

Prob feels like trolling because it is trolling

Look at the Twitter name: No3 Sports

The real company is On3 Sports

 

[FDNYIrish1]

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

The old how do you keep a message board full of idiots in suspense trick

 

[Irish#1]

I’ll never understand his issue with alumni

It's his ego.

 

[Irish#1]

If you think that story is good, you should hear the Mike Elston story.

 

[HouseofPain]

If you think the Mike Elston story is good, you should hear the Matt Lefleur story.

 

[dublinirish]

Woodward is owed 7 mil on his contact which the state of Louisiana is gonna have to pony up for unless the chicken tendys guy steps up again

 

[dublinirish]

free link: A $95 million bet gone wrong: Inside Brian Kelly’s last days at LSU -…

Where have we heard this before:

What they described was a coach who delegated too much authority, didn’t care enough about recruiting and failed to bond with his players; an athletic director who was unusually involved in football day-to-day; and a program with national title aspirations but didn’t function like its rivals.