Who do you want to replace Brian Kelly?

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I am not seeing BK going anywhere.

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Mike Elko 4-2-5
Charlie Strong 4-3
Luke Fickell 4-3

I think we have the players on the roster to run the schemes. 3-4 not sure about because depth at NT.
 
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CIrishWin said:
I am not seeing BK going anywhere.

DC choices

Mike Elko 4-2-5
Charlie Strong 4-3
Luke Fickell 4-3

I think we have the players on the roster to run the schemes. 3-4 not sure about because depth at NT.
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I agree with the bolded. It's just my own uninformed opinion, but I think BK has built up enough credit with the program to weather one bad season. Hell, the team could even turn around and go 6-6 and be eligible for (crappy) bowl game. I don't see him being really in danger of being fired unless the team totally tanks the rest of the season and finishes something awful like 2-10 or 3-9. A possibility, but it's more likely the team claws back and wins at least 2-3 more games. Even going 5-7, I think Kelly hangs on but his seat will be very warm.

Side note, I agree with others that I don't see Charlie Strong taking a DC job. He'll have to take an unsexy HC job at a mid or low-level D-1 school, but I think he seems too proud to take a step down to a coordinator job unless he sees it as a springboard back to a P5 HC gig.
 
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I agree with the bolded. It's just my own uninformed opinion, but I think BK has built up enough credit with the program to weather one bad season. Hell, the team could even turn around and go 6-6 and be eligible for (crappy) bowl game. I don't see him being really in danger of being fired unless the team totally tanks the rest of the season and finishes something awful like 2-10 or 3-9. A possibility, but it's more likely the team claws back and wins at least 2-3 more games. Even going 5-7, I think Kelly hangs on but his seat will be very warm.

Side note, I agree with others that I don't see Charlie Strong taking a DC job. He'll have to take an unsexy HC job at a mid or low-level D-1 school, but I think he seems too proud to take a step down to a coordinator job unless he sees it as a springboard back to a P5 HC gig.
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You right me may well do that. (Strong) but yeah i think it is too soon to pull the trigger on BK.
 
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Lou having too much power was a major factor in his firing. Spurrier was coming on the scene with an air it out, score at will offense. It was easy on the eyes and fun to watch. Lou was the grind it out power football offense that was considered boring. Lou was bigger than life at ND and he let Wadsworth know it. There were several behind closed doors meetings between the two that turned into screaming matches. Everyone one in the football office could hear it. My best friends mom was the secretary for the AD at the time and heard these arguments. Lou was being pressured into changing his philosophy and was also constantly being reminded who his boss was. Wadsworth flexed his muscle and Lou said enough is enough and stepped down. IMO the rumor of the record was nothing more than the administration saving face of letting go of a legend. I think Lou's love for ND welcomed the rumor to take hold so no bad light would shine on the University.
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Exactly. It's silly to think that Lou left because of the record. Records were made to be broken. It was just a fairy tale so everyone could walk away with heads held high.

I'll share one more story regarding my family and Lou. My grandpa met Lou a numbers of times during his time at ND and briefly after. The first time was at the Hawaii game in the early 90s. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, and parents all flew out for that game. I don't recall the details exactly so bear with me, but one of my uncles found out where Lou was staying and left a letter mentioning they were there for the game and how big a fan my grandfather was. Lou's wife got the letter and called my uncle's room and told them to wait at a conference room at the hotel at a certain time. Lou showed up and surprised them, he ended up cancelling a meeting engagement and spent a half hour or so jawing with my grandpa. He still keeps the picture of the meeting on the fireplace.

During that first meeting Lou shared that ND had just offered him a new 5 year contract, which was a big deal at the time because the school hadn't offered one in some time I guess, he had been only getting short term contracts up till then. This information hadn't been leaked to the press yet, my family was the first to hear it outside Lou's circle. Being a finance/accounting guy, my grandpa also shared some ideas for improving the stadium and revenue, one of which was the addition of the box/gold seats. Lou put him in touch with someone at the university, who in turn later offered my grandpa the chance to buy in to the gold seats as one of the first ticket holders. He likes to think it was his idea to add the box seats, but in reality I'm sure the university was already considering it by that point. We've been in Section 10, Row E ever since '97.

But yeah, aside from being a big donor and knowing some other ND families close to the program, my grandpa talked with Lou a handful of times after that Hawaii game. Rockne's record never really came into play as far as why he left, it definitely wasn't the main reason.
 
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skehiaian said:
I would like to see either the head coach at Washington or Duke to replace Kelly
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Peterson is not leaving the Pacific NorthWest. And David Cutcliff is not strong enough to be the head man at ND, if what I wrote makes any sense.


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I think it's been mentioned but what about Bud Foster for DC? #2 Overall Defense in YPG, #3 in Passing YPG, and #10 Overall in Scoring.

Does he recruit? Would he be a fit? Would he leave VT?
 
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I think it's been mentioned but what about Bud Foster for DC? #2 Overall Defense in YPG, #3 in Passing YPG, and #10 Overall in Scoring.

Does he recruit? Would he be a fit? Would he leave VT?
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He's been at VT for going on 30 years...
 
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NDinBoston said:
I think it's been mentioned but what about Bud Foster for DC? #2 Overall Defense in YPG, #3 in Passing YPG, and #10 Overall in Scoring.

Does he recruit? Would he be a fit? Would he leave VT?
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He signed a 5 year contract in 2014 that pays him $900K per year.
 
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Black Irish said:
I agree with half of this statement. As for the other half, you might as well see a teenage boy with his shirt off.
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Today's games continue to confirm that our entire schedule is an embarrassment- there is probably not a single top 10 team on it. And yet we're hoping to go 6-6. Are we sure BK is the guy?
 
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Today's games continue to confirm that our entire schedule is an embarrassment- there is probably not a single top 10 team on it. And yet we're hoping to go 6-6. Are we sure BK is the guy?
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Probably not? Worst ND schedule ever when VT and UNC lose today.
 
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Today's games continue to confirm that our entire schedule is an embarrassment- there is probably not a single top 10 team on it. And yet we're hoping to go 6-6. Are we sure BK is the guy?
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It's not an embarrassment. We have Navy on the schedule and they took down your man crush Tom Herman.
 
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Bryan Harsin only makes $1mil/year. Big problem is that he's a Boise State alumna from Idaho. But he's about to go 12-0 and probably win his second BCS game in three season. Which will be two more than Kelly has won in 7.
 
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Today's games continue to confirm that our entire schedule is an embarrassment- there is probably not a single top 10 team on it. And yet we're hoping to go 6-6. Are we sure BK is the guy?
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Actually, I think people are hoping we go 4-8 instead of 2-10.
 
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Bryan Harsin only makes $1mil/year. Big problem is that he's a Boise State alumna from Idaho. But he's about to go 12-0 and probably win his second BCS game in three season. Which will be two more than Kelly has won in 7.
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Which is two more than Notre Dame has ever won.


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what about les miles hell i heard if notre dame wanted to go bold they wanted gruden
 
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