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Sat down with my best friend Jack Daniel's tonight and wrote this.
I guess we all know the outcome from tonight's game. The question is what do we do next? My opinion along with many other ND fans is to release Ty from his coaching duties. I saw a man tonight that was coaching to keep the score close (probably so he could keep his job) and not coaching to win the game.
I'm 90 percent sure ND will release Ty. It just make's no sense to bring him back another year or two. In that year or two his expectations will be to high for what he's capable of achieving. It's a lose-lose situation for both. If you release Ty he'll still be able to stay in coaching somewhere. He'll still have good things to put on his resume like taking stanford to the rose Bowl, his first year with the Irish, beating Michigan twice, beating Michigan St twice, Beating Tennesse this year, Destroying FSU his first year, his first recruiting class, and finally running a clean program.
Unfortunately for Ty the list of things that went wrong is much longer. For ND this is a losing situation bringing back Ty because recruiting is fading and will continue to fade if Ty is brought back. Recruits know he's on the hot seat. Bob davie was a bad coach but during his stay he mainly recruited top 10 classes, Ty is lucky to recruit a top 25 class. Also while I believe the players have respect and play hard for Ty, I think there comes a point when a player see's a coaches technique or system what ever you wanna call it isn't working. Therefore while they still may respect him they still may ponder in there head, is this the right play call, is the coach doing the right thing here. If your players aren't 100% on board with the coach, then a change is needed.
Who should the new coach be? Obivisouly some serious thought has to be put into this. We can't have the debacle we had the last time. Most important we need someone who loves ND and loves what it stands for. Gruden and Meyer certainly fit that description. If Gruden were hired it would be all over the news. Recruits would flock to him he wouldn't even have to offer them. We all know his coaching ability. He won a friggin Super Bowl not to long ago. Oh yea and the team he beat was the team he coached the prior season, the Oakland Raiders. Boy he sure made Bill Callahan a hot coaching prospect. Oh and Grudens Bucs were big underdogs. Enough of him who's the other candidate, Oh yea Urban. Well he may be the next best thing in college football. I'm hearing Steve Spurrier comparisons. Or maybe we'll land Butch Davis, or maybe Stoops, maybe Saban, heck maybe we'll get Pete Carroll, but please don't hire BC's O'brien.
More needs to be done though besides changing the coach. Monk Malloy the president of ND sure as heck has shown me that ND football isn't his main concern. Why did this man not give any credence to the state of the football program? While I respect him enormously and the sacrifaces he has mad in life, I cannot for the life of me understand why ND football did not matter to this man. Maybe he didn't like ND's reputation as a football school. Well let me tell you something, the only reason I know about the University of Notre Dame is because of the football team. Soon after I first started to follow ND football, I learned how it was a top 20 school academically, how it's a Catholic school, how it has one of the best alumni, all of which I would have never known if ND didn't have a football team. Monk you failed to see this. I hear your moving on, good luck in your futre endeavers. To the soon to be president, Father Jenkin's I hope you realize the importance of Notre Dame Football. Alum's and Subway Alum's like myself need to make it known to Father Jenkin's how important ND football is to us and the country. It's America's team.
In conclussion as ND fans we must remember there has been down periods before. Although this one is longer then usual there's a first time for everything. There is no doubt in my mind that ND will be great again. Many program's were down and had fallen from the ranks, take USC for example, they were bad for about 20 years ( odd good year here and there) until carroll arrived. Same with oklahoma before stoops, heck look at Florida with zook, all the talent in the world and he couldn't win. Coaching is more important then people think. Basketball you can win with talent, but not football it mainly comes down to coaching. Ty is gone trust me, when you fail in life it catches up with you believe me, and Ty has certainly failed as a coach.
Subway Alum
Rory Broggy
I guess we all know the outcome from tonight's game. The question is what do we do next? My opinion along with many other ND fans is to release Ty from his coaching duties. I saw a man tonight that was coaching to keep the score close (probably so he could keep his job) and not coaching to win the game.
I'm 90 percent sure ND will release Ty. It just make's no sense to bring him back another year or two. In that year or two his expectations will be to high for what he's capable of achieving. It's a lose-lose situation for both. If you release Ty he'll still be able to stay in coaching somewhere. He'll still have good things to put on his resume like taking stanford to the rose Bowl, his first year with the Irish, beating Michigan twice, beating Michigan St twice, Beating Tennesse this year, Destroying FSU his first year, his first recruiting class, and finally running a clean program.
Unfortunately for Ty the list of things that went wrong is much longer. For ND this is a losing situation bringing back Ty because recruiting is fading and will continue to fade if Ty is brought back. Recruits know he's on the hot seat. Bob davie was a bad coach but during his stay he mainly recruited top 10 classes, Ty is lucky to recruit a top 25 class. Also while I believe the players have respect and play hard for Ty, I think there comes a point when a player see's a coaches technique or system what ever you wanna call it isn't working. Therefore while they still may respect him they still may ponder in there head, is this the right play call, is the coach doing the right thing here. If your players aren't 100% on board with the coach, then a change is needed.
Who should the new coach be? Obivisouly some serious thought has to be put into this. We can't have the debacle we had the last time. Most important we need someone who loves ND and loves what it stands for. Gruden and Meyer certainly fit that description. If Gruden were hired it would be all over the news. Recruits would flock to him he wouldn't even have to offer them. We all know his coaching ability. He won a friggin Super Bowl not to long ago. Oh yea and the team he beat was the team he coached the prior season, the Oakland Raiders. Boy he sure made Bill Callahan a hot coaching prospect. Oh and Grudens Bucs were big underdogs. Enough of him who's the other candidate, Oh yea Urban. Well he may be the next best thing in college football. I'm hearing Steve Spurrier comparisons. Or maybe we'll land Butch Davis, or maybe Stoops, maybe Saban, heck maybe we'll get Pete Carroll, but please don't hire BC's O'brien.
More needs to be done though besides changing the coach. Monk Malloy the president of ND sure as heck has shown me that ND football isn't his main concern. Why did this man not give any credence to the state of the football program? While I respect him enormously and the sacrifaces he has mad in life, I cannot for the life of me understand why ND football did not matter to this man. Maybe he didn't like ND's reputation as a football school. Well let me tell you something, the only reason I know about the University of Notre Dame is because of the football team. Soon after I first started to follow ND football, I learned how it was a top 20 school academically, how it's a Catholic school, how it has one of the best alumni, all of which I would have never known if ND didn't have a football team. Monk you failed to see this. I hear your moving on, good luck in your futre endeavers. To the soon to be president, Father Jenkin's I hope you realize the importance of Notre Dame Football. Alum's and Subway Alum's like myself need to make it known to Father Jenkin's how important ND football is to us and the country. It's America's team.
In conclussion as ND fans we must remember there has been down periods before. Although this one is longer then usual there's a first time for everything. There is no doubt in my mind that ND will be great again. Many program's were down and had fallen from the ranks, take USC for example, they were bad for about 20 years ( odd good year here and there) until carroll arrived. Same with oklahoma before stoops, heck look at Florida with zook, all the talent in the world and he couldn't win. Coaching is more important then people think. Basketball you can win with talent, but not football it mainly comes down to coaching. Ty is gone trust me, when you fail in life it catches up with you believe me, and Ty has certainly failed as a coach.
Subway Alum
Rory Broggy
