Notre Dame Football 2010.......The Brian Kelly Era Begins

• killdeer

  

  sleeper;546614 wrote:MB, just let them enjoy their 6 wins year in year out. They will never beat a good team, ever, for the next 100 years as long as they keep jokers like BK around.

  
  yeah............I realize this is sleeper....but i still have to give this a .....
  
  "THIS"!
• rock_knutne

  ND President, Fr. John Jenkins issued a statement today saying that Notre Dame is responsible for the death of Declan Sullivan:
  
  http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5768852
  
  At least they're willing to admit they had some fault over this tragedy, they know they're going to pay out the ass but they're manning up and taking the blame. IMO, this doesn't happen very often when you know a multi million dollar law suit will probably be filed against you.
  
  BTW, Fr. Jenkins also said that Brian Kelly and Jack Swarbrick have the full support of the administration and board of directors.
• killdeer

  

  rock_knutne;546677 wrote:...................................BTW, Fr. Jenkins also said that Brian Kelly and Jack Swarbrick have the full support of the administration and board of directors.

  
  Isn't this the timely quote that always gets trounced out into the press just before someone gets canned???
• karen lotz

  

  killdeer;546679 wrote:Isn't this the timely quote that always gets trounced out into the press just before someone gets canned???

  
  Typically yes, but how many of the people who have said it are Catholic priests?
• karen lotz

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;546414 wrote:Yeah, Lotz, I'm the idiot. I'm not the one defending such a dumbass call. Enjoy Kelly, keep it up and you might win 6 games next year.
  
  I've followed college football religiously for damn near 20 years. I'd easily put it in the top 5 of worst calls I've ever seen.
  
  I don't really care, I'm not a ND fan, I just don't understand you guys.....no fan of any other team is even trying to defend the call, yet you guys are trying to. It isn't working. It was a dumb call. Period.

  I didn't call you an idiot. All I'm saying is Kelly called the play the way he always calls the game. He is aggressive. That is why he has been successful. It wasn't reckless aggression either, as there was no guarantee of the field goal being made due to a variety of factors. Now if he all of a sudden started saying the punt is the most important play in football and punts when his team is down 2 scores with 6 minutes to go, then I would worry. There is a reason he is the head football coach at Notre Dame and you are on a message board calling people idiots and dumbasses and whatever else you say. Good for you for following college football religiously for damn near 20 years. Hopefully your next 20 years allow you to understand not everyone plays by your strategy.
• killer_ewok

  

  sleeper;546614 wrote:MB, just let them enjoy their 6 wins year in year out. They will never beat a good team, ever, for the next 100 years as long as they keep jokers like BK around.

  
  The good news is those lucky bastards won't have to listen to your shit 100 years from now as you'll be dead and gone by then.
• vball10set

  as far as the play call at the end of the game is concerned, it's always easy to second guess a play after it's over...what I keep coming back to is if the reason Kelly was hesitant to kick a field goal due into 30mph winds, then why was he throwing a lob pass into the corner of the end zone against this same wind? it just doesn't make sense, but again, hindsight.....
• centralbucksfan

  rock_knutne;546677 wrote:
  BTW, Fr. Jenkins also said that Brian Kelly and Jack Swarbrick have the full support of the administration and board of directors.

  
  Uh oh..usually the kiss of death when that comment comes out!
• killer_ewok

  

  So Utah is getting absolutely hammered by TCU. That means ND will have a pissed off Utah team coming to South Bend next Saturday. Great.......
• sleeper

  

  Utah would would win whether they are pissed off or not. It's Notre Dame we're talking about here, they haven't beaten a good team since 1970.
• killer_ewok

  

  sleeper;547584 wrote:Utah would would win whether they are pissed off or not. It's Notre Dame we're talking about here, they haven't beaten a good team since 1970.

  
  That's not what I meant. It just might be a 40 point loss instead of a 20-30 point loss.
• vball10set

  killer_ewok;547454 wrote:So Utah is getting absolutely hammered by TCU. That means ND will have a pissed off Utah team coming to South Bend next Saturday. Great.......

  or one that's feeling demoralized and not invincible anymore
• rock_knutne

  centralbucksfan;547331 wrote:Uh oh..usually the kiss of death when that comment comes out!

  
  You have to to lie on your resume' to get fired in your first year.
• killer_ewok

  

  vball10set;547601 wrote:or one that's feeling demoralized and not invincible anymore

  LOL. Sounds good to me but I won't get my hopes up.
• sjmvsfscs08

  Utah will come into South Bend ranked around 17th?
• sjmvsfscs08

  Brian Kelly was at Iowa WR/LB/DB athlete Christian French's high school game last night. Kid is a monster, Notre Dame wants him as a OLB for speed and Iowa wants to let him play WR. He is expected to commit to either Iowa, Notre Dame, or Oregon sometime this week. Cross your fingers.
• killer_ewok

  

  sjmvsfscs08;547645 wrote:Brian Kelly was at Iowa WR/LB/DB athlete Christian French's high school game last night. Kid is a monster, Notre Dame wants him as a OLB for speed and Iowa wants to let him play WR. He is expected to commit to either Iowa, Notre Dame, or Oregon sometime this week. Cross your fingers.

  
  
• karen lotz

  

  Hinton was in Virginia and DC Wednesday and Thursday looking at some highly rated guys too.
• karen lotz

  

  The lines have been painted at New Yankee Stadium for next week's game...
  
  
• rock_knutne

  ^^^^I like it!
• rock_knutne

  Old Yankee Stadium hosting a football game......looks similar to the new layout:
  
  
• karen lotz

  

  Awesome quote from Zach Banner, a 6'8" 295 lb offensive lineman from Washington when talking about schools at the top of his list:
  
  

  USC, Texas, Alabama, Florida, Florida State, the big dominant teams like that. Oregon as well, but Notre Dame; when my coach told me I had a scholarship offer from Notre Dame, I literally started crying. I was in his office, they were tears of joy of course, but you think about having the opportunity to go and play for a school that is known for so much total dominance and that is something I want to be able to do in my life.

• sleeper

  

  In actuality, he was crying because he'll never realize his dream of "total dominance", unless his definition of that is 6-6(at best) with a bowl loss.
  
  The joke of ND continues, right down to its new recruits.
• Automatik

  

  Yeah I don't see that quote as awesome at all.....actually its rather stupid.
  
  But that would be one hell of a pick up. 6'8" 295 is fucking HUGE at that age.
• karen lotz

  

  Awesome might not be the best word, but how is it stupid? The kid is obviously excited to get a scholarship offer from Notre Dame. He already has a pretty impressive list of offers and judging from the rest of the quote he thinks Notre Dame is a special place to him.