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id rather have the chance to **** up not **** up before i got the chance.

wooly, what up bro!
 
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I think Ty did more damage. Awhile back somebody posted a recruiting class that Ty put together...it was brutal.
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...But that season he figured out his short game and took two points off of his handicap. Just sayin'.
 
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Belichick constantly has coaches in and out of camp to talk shop. When the Pats aren't in session and colleges are, he makes the rounds to schools, too. I've noted this on here before. Saban and Urbs are frequently in that rotation, as was Chip Kelly. I'm not sure how prevalent of a thing that is around the league, but for the Pats it is pretty normal. From a ND standpoint, I think it is great for BK to be in that circle.
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BGI's Dan Murphy just published an article regarding Kelly's thoughts on our tumultuous off-season:

The past few months of Notre Dame football have been harder on its fanbase than on the head coach.

The escalating string of negative news that has streamed through South Bend since a loss in the BCS Championship game in January reached a peak in late May. In the same week, prized defensive line recruit Eddie Vanderdoes slowly backed away from the program and the school suspended starting quarterback Everett Golson for the 2013 season.

Kelly said the tough breaks were easier to swallow from his seat because neither was an agonizing decision.

“You characterize it as headaches. I characterize it as things that you have to deal with being a head football coach in the BCS,” he said Wednesday afternoon at a charity golf outing in Bridgman, Mich.

“I look at these as fairly clear-cut scenarios. … I don’t have to spend much time thinking about it. I know they garner a lot of attention from a media standpoint, but it doesn’t take a lot of energy or my time. It allows me to still focus on our team.”

Outside of the Irish football complex, Vanderdoes’ decision to enroll at UCLA this summer was painted as less of a black-and-white affair. The nation’s top-ranked defensive tackle prospect signed a national letter of intent to play for Notre Dame in February. Multiple reports said that a family illness in the months that followed convinced Vanderdoes he needed to stay on the West Coast, although the player and his family never gave a specific reason for his changed plans.

Notre Dame allowed Vanderdoes to effectively transfer to UCLA, his school of choice, but denied his request to nullify the letter of intent. That means Vanderdoes will have to sit out the 2013 season. Kelly said he made that decision to protect the integrity of the letter of intent system and avoid setting a precedent that could allows players to flip-flop on their commitments throughout the spring.

“I remember the first time I got an apartment I had to put a deposit down,” Kelly said. “I found another apartment I liked better and I didn’t get my deposit back. I’m using that as analogy only in the sense that if you sign a binding letter like the NLI, you should be held to it.”

Kelly said he wouldn’t rule out the possibility of ever letting a player out of a letter of intent if the circumstances were in someway different. Kelly said this is the first time he’s run into this particular scenario during his 23-year career as a head coach, and he doesn’t anticipate it will become a regular problem in the future.

Critics of the decision called Kelly and other NCAA coaches hypocritical for not letting students out of their contacts while they jump from job to job. Kelly broke his contact with Cincinnati in 2009 to take the Notre Dame job after a 12-0 regular season with the BearCats. The coach defended himself by saying he faced consequences for that decision just like Vanderdoes is facing now.

“I paid a million dollars in a buyout,” he said. “You can break the contract, and he has. He broke the contract and he’s going to another school. But there has to be a level of accountability there.”
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Love is analogy about rent/deposit... LOL.
Also like his response about Cinci.
 
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@footballscoop: Mentioned that Bill O’Brien had been contacted by the Lions. Hear from good source that Lions have also reached out to Dungy & Brian Kelly

Don't want this to start a firestorm but rumors have been out for a while that the Lions would approach BK and since it is now public I figured I would post. Some think he will have zero interest, others think because of Michigan ties and flirtation last year +talented roster that they would be a real threat.

One crazy stat is that the Lions have hired like 12 coaches since 1965 and none of them were ever a head coach again after leaving there.
 
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Well, the Lions won't be in the playoffs and Schwartz will be fired this weekend. None of the three candidates will have any current obligations to their teams holding them back. So at least this rumor should get resolved fairly quickly.
 
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I wish he would just go. I am tired of the yearly speculation.
 
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Hate to say it, but with their roster it would seem to be a desirable job for a coach looking. They have their QB, a star WR, very good DL and some other nice pieces. Throw that in with a nice stadium, patient owner, good fan base and proximity and this looks like it may have some traction if true. At least we aren't playing Bama this year in the bowl game. If he goes, it would be devastating. I truly think he is the best guy for the program and has built a solid foundation for continued success. Maybe they take somebody else that has pro experience.
 
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would think O'Brien would be a good hire.

good track record with QB's

previous NFL experience.

would be a good hire for them and imo a much better hire than BK
 
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As I said in January, Kelly will NEVER take a NFL job.
 
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tko said:
As I said in January, Kelly will NEVER take a NFL job.
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Stop trampling on what is about to be another 50 pages of doomsayers!!!!!

I doubt he goes, but personally wouldn't put it at a 0% chance. I'm thinking 25% chance (just my guess, nothing to back it up) he goes if offered. Not the most reassuring odds, but better than a coin flip or a prayer thread.


*Anybody know what his buyout would be since the extension? I assume Captain Jack put a poison pill in there to make short work of off-season flirtations.
 
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IrishSteelhead said:
Stop trampling on what is about to be another 50 pages of doomsayers!!!!!

I doubt he goes, but personally wouldn't put it at a 0% chance. I'm thinking 25% chance (just my guess, nothing to back it up) he goes if offered. Not the most reassuring odds, but better than a coin flip or a prayer thread.
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A billion vbucks on the line. I said I'd NEVER go to ND but that ended up being the wrong thing to say. I'm confident he won't leave, though. Don't worry, we'll blow through 50 pages by Sunday!
 
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Rehire Diaco as Head Coach!

Don't see him leaving after just receiving an extension and pay raises for staff in order to avoid this exact situation. Crazy things happen with coaching changes but this one is very unlikely.
 
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