Brian Kelly
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Coach of the Year?
Only real competition is Bill Snyder, IMO.
Only real competition is Bill Snyder, IMO.
irishff1014
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This is going to be a tough choice. They are both good coaches.
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Yeah, like I said, anyone sane. Who cares, anyway?
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When Weis was fired, I immediately began crossing my fingers that Kelly would be hired.
From day one he began a total renovation of the team. He made it clear that what existed before was a culture of losing and stripped it down to the bare wood. He practises tough love with the guys and at first it pi$sed some of them off. Before long the players bought in and began to see results.
I am impressed by the assistants he has developed. Diaco will eventually leave for a head coaching job but he has absolutely blossomed under Kelly's mentorship. I think somewhere down the road when Kelly decides to retire, Chuck Martin will be our head coach and carry on the tradition of winning. Luongo is personally repsonsible for the way our boys shifted to another gear against Oklahoma, ND is a great 4th quarter team now, largely b/c Luongo has them in shape. Hiestand, Alford, Denbrock, Brooker, etc. all very effective coaches and all on the same page as Kelly. Look at what Cooks and Elliot have done with the secondary!! He wisely retained Alford who is a great coach in his own right.
Kelly has surrounded himself with energetic guys of a like mind and steered this program in the right direction. I have been confident in his coaching every step of the way and I am very glad to see that he has done just what I had expected of him all along.
From day one he began a total renovation of the team. He made it clear that what existed before was a culture of losing and stripped it down to the bare wood. He practises tough love with the guys and at first it pi$sed some of them off. Before long the players bought in and began to see results.
I am impressed by the assistants he has developed. Diaco will eventually leave for a head coaching job but he has absolutely blossomed under Kelly's mentorship. I think somewhere down the road when Kelly decides to retire, Chuck Martin will be our head coach and carry on the tradition of winning. Luongo is personally repsonsible for the way our boys shifted to another gear against Oklahoma, ND is a great 4th quarter team now, largely b/c Luongo has them in shape. Hiestand, Alford, Denbrock, Brooker, etc. all very effective coaches and all on the same page as Kelly. Look at what Cooks and Elliot have done with the secondary!! He wisely retained Alford who is a great coach in his own right.
Kelly has surrounded himself with energetic guys of a like mind and steered this program in the right direction. I have been confident in his coaching every step of the way and I am very glad to see that he has done just what I had expected of him all along.
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Even with our recent situation, i think those voters "expect" Kelly to win at ND, while KSU came out of nowhere. I personally think winning at ND is the hardest major coaching job in college football.
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@spitzjim Snyder's been great, but in terms of rebuilding it's all Kelly. KSU 10-3 last yr. ND wasn't relevant before Kelly turned it around
There is that nasty word again, but he is right. KSU has been consistently good under Snyder and was in the BCS mix most of the last decade that he coached there.
COY should be for this year only, and in that case, the only coach who is a legitimate COY candidate IS Brian Kelly.
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Here, we can see what everyone thought of the extension:
http://www.irishenvy.com/forums/notre-dame-football/66041-kelly-receives-contract-extension-through-2016-a.html
I thought I missed that thread, then realized I was the last one to post in it. I liked the extension!
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ulukinatme
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Haha, just saw that site. I noticed theres a thread complaining about A Cross on NDNation and asking why he's allowed to still post there.
Credit goes to the enitre university. Father Jenkins, Swarbrick. Coach Kelly and the enitre staff that all are now on the ame page. Academics frist.tephon Tuitt misses a class - does not playat apurdue last year. Father Jenkins givae team the proper facilites and a good training table.
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The thing, perhaps the ONLY thing, that we ND fans need to worry about with our great coach is that he can maintain the health, energy, enthusiasm that he continuously displays while doing this nearly impossible job. Each one of us can do our parts in this by shoving our crappy negative comments, about how we'd do something much better than he just did, back down our own throats and have some faith in the man.
Excellent coaches [usually] "fail" ultimately at high pressure jobs like ND football because the "fan" base is full of loud-mouthed immature jerks who slowly build up a mountain of negativity towards the coach and the team's "condition" in the public eye. This leads to gossip, negative media, and bad recruiting environments, to say nothing of stress on the coach's family members.
While it's true that no one comment makes much difference, it is the accumulation of crowd-following jerks and witch-hunters that can ruin the entire situation. We see occasional crowd madness erupt even here on IE and this is the sanest forum, generally, around. It isn't just "Ws and Ls" that end up getting coaches to move on.
So, let's do our real job as fans: Make our "insightful" critiques, OK, but show some humility, open-mindedness, respect when criticizing, and enjoy the blessing of one of the finest coaches in college football.
Excellent coaches [usually] "fail" ultimately at high pressure jobs like ND football because the "fan" base is full of loud-mouthed immature jerks who slowly build up a mountain of negativity towards the coach and the team's "condition" in the public eye. This leads to gossip, negative media, and bad recruiting environments, to say nothing of stress on the coach's family members.
While it's true that no one comment makes much difference, it is the accumulation of crowd-following jerks and witch-hunters that can ruin the entire situation. We see occasional crowd madness erupt even here on IE and this is the sanest forum, generally, around. It isn't just "Ws and Ls" that end up getting coaches to move on.
So, let's do our real job as fans: Make our "insightful" critiques, OK, but show some humility, open-mindedness, respect when criticizing, and enjoy the blessing of one of the finest coaches in college football.
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What I like about Coach Kelly is that he seems to learn from his mistakes. He certainly Ian perfect. But look how much better our offense is at protecting the football. Clearly he spent a great deal of time on protecting the football this offseason and it has worked. As well, he finally seemed to realized that running the football on first down helps our team win. I was happily yelling at the tv on Saturday thanking him for running the football and this having second and gives rather than second and third and long. Thank you coach, and contribute to get better and learn.