Tradition is great. And the facilities can still be given a classic feel (frankly that's a plus) but the facilities need to be state of the art. Would i personally care as a recruit? No. If Notre Dame batted their eyelashes at me I'd be there. But we are recruiting kids who didn't grow up ND fans. We need to appeal to them.
Man, I'm no fan of Driskell but that was some scorched earth writing there lol. Good stuff.The rebuttal
Brian Kelly Didn't Win A Title At Notre Dame Because Of Brian Kelly, Not Notre Dame
Brian Kelly is once again blaming the wrong people for his failure to win a title at Notre Dame. The reason was always simple, it was himwww.si.com
Would love to know more about what he alluded to in his mailbag pod last week. Said something along the lines of he has only revealed ~10% of what BK has done that irks him and that if he ever mentioned some of the rest it would end him. Says he won't do that because it would be detrimental to some players and the school as well. I know we have to take everything Driskell says with a grain of salt, but damn would that be a juicy read lol
After I moved to Louisiana, it wasn't necessarily the cooking (although that was part of it) where I gained a lot of weight at first, it was the amount of very casual drinking in so many situations. Even if you're not drinking to excess in a sitting, it was something I really had to re-learn how to do in moderation because it's different down here in a way I hadn't experienced living in Ohio or NY.
To be fair BK is Irish Catholic from Boston. We know of constant casual drinking at any and all occasions.
It is amazing how even in this day and age they can keep this stuff wrapped up, but I'm telling you, I would not doubt for a second that there is more dirt out there than anyone could realize. As much as Driskell is a douche, I'm willing to bet there is plenty of substance to whatever he's alluding to regardless of whether he's received it first or second hand. Opposing fanbases and trolls love to play a couple of cards on Kelly, mostly ones that involved two very tragic deaths, but I have zero doubt based on my previous experience that there are more than enough buried secrets about his time at ND to go around.
100% agreed. That article said a lot of things we've said over the years and certainly in hindsight.
To follow up with this, O’Malley and Prister on the II pod this week were talking about Kyle Rudolph recently being at practice/speaking to the team. They made a quick comment that not only would Rudolph have declined an invite by Kelly to speak, but that he wouldn’t even been back at practice at all.
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I don't think there's any argument that BK is a prick. We can all fully respect his work as a coach and I'd call him top 5 or top 10 in college football, and at the same time say I'd never want to have a beer or play 18 with the guy.
I can say with confidence that the ‘10-‘12 guys did not respect him and thought he was a bad coach. Those are the guys I actually overlapped with in school and have stories.
I heard from a very reliable source (i.e. an ND professor) that Troy Niklas hated Kelly. He said he was fake and repeated a lot of empty platitudes. That was a strong reason why Niklas left ND early.
And Freeman is better at the pre-game pep talk. Kelly sounds like he's trying to get nursing home patients to switch to a different Medicare Managed Care plan.
His own guys don't like him either.
Those two sentences are contradictory. "Being good at press conferences" is generally the art of conversing with journalists without conveying any real information. Kelly was certainly good at the political aspects of the job, but there was an insincerity there that made his platitudes grating to listen to for long. Freeman cares way more than Kelly ever did, so his "fluff" is just more fun to listen to. You're not really learning anything from either coach.
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Yeah you aren’t far off at all. It was pretty often from what I was told.
Shake down the Thunder, things of that nature
....Ian Book? Jack Coan??? Both did pretty well with Rees. Idk though.
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I’m not sure how to take this, but I don’t feel like it’s sour grapes at all to say BK was/is a prick. I’ve been saying it since year one and nothing he has done has made me think otherwise. In the same breath I have said that I appreciate what he has done/did for us as a coach (this is an addendum I’ve only added in the last couple of years).
I called to get my zip code.
