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Brian "Body Kount" Kelly (HC Louisiana State)

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LordJeffBuck;1990405; said:
I've updated the numbers and included Kelly's performance at Cincinnati and Notre Dame....

Like Smith, Petrino, and Rodriguez, Kelly is performing far below his Big East record since taking the jump to major college football. Obviously Kelly has only 15 games under his belt, but it looks like he will soon go the way of Davie, Willingham, and Weis (combined record of 91-67, for a .576 winning percentage).

While Smith and Rodriguez were disasters for their respective programs, Petrino is winning at a respectable rate. But respectable (.625) is still a major drop-off from his winning percentage in the Big East (.820).

The point being, that it is very hard to win at a high rate in the major conferences, and beating up on the Little Sisters of the Big East is not an accurate predictor of success in the B1G or SEC.
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Dan Hawkins
Boise St: 53 - 11 .828 (2001-2005)
Colorado: 21 - 40 .344 (2006-2010)
 
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Kelly's ego and lack of character were on display again last week.

CBS

There is absolutely one thing a college coach cannot do. Lose? Bad, but a distant second.

Rip your players in public, personally, and you risk losing your team. More than that, you risk losing the fans, the administration, everyone. Start with the fact that players are not professionals. Ninety-nine percent of them will not play in the pros.

Sure, they get that free education, but in exchange they work unpaid athletic "jobs." So a coach might think his guys are bums, but he can't ever get personal and say it publicly.
Brian Kelly got personal and said it publicly.

Last week Notre Dame's coach was quoted about making a distinction between the players he recruited and those from the Charlie Weis era.

"You can see the players that I recruited here," Kelly told reporters Thursday. "You know who they are. We've had one class of recruiting kids that I've had my hand on. The other guys here are coming along. But it's a process. It can't happen overnight. They're getting there. We're making good progress."

The message was subtle but clear enough to blow up Twitter when Irish players read it. Most notably, linebacker Manti Teo, who angrily tweeted, "Playin for my bros and that's it!!!"

By the end of a blowout of Navy on Saturday, Kelly had apologized to the players and addressed the matter obtusely with media. You probably missed it because there are more compelling stories in the sport at the moment than Notre Dame football. Kelly, though, cannot un-ring the bell. The message, if you don't get it yet: As soon as Kelly clears out Weis' players, he can make some real progress.

One problem with that: Weis' players are working as hard as everyone else, taking the same hits, putting in the same long hours. Those players include men of character and talent like Teo, a fantastic linebacker with a pro future, and game-changing receiver Michael Floyd.

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This isn't the recruiting thread...so...Fuck, Kelly is an idiot.

I could see the slip if maybe he took over for Ty Willingham and all Kelly's recruits were starting. Weis might have sucked at coaching, but his players were top notch (for the most part).

ND sure knows how to pick em.
 
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Jake;2073971; said:
Tickets $200

Airfare/hotel $500

Seeing this after ND blows a 14 point second half lead and loses.

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Priceless! :lol:
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This will be him again with both QB's after he watches this film. I thought he was supposed to be this guru with QB's, and they are just plain awful
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;2074022; said:
Dude, you or I could light up the BigXII. With or without Heavy C.
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True, but as we saw tonight the talking heads can't tell the difference between great offense and crappy defense, so it'll be comparisons of Crist at ND and Crist at KU time.
 
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Jake;2074322; said:
True, but as we saw tonight the talking heads can't tell the difference between great offense and crappy defense, so it'll be comparisons of Crist at ND and Crist at KU time.
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Oh, I think they can. But one is good for business and the other view not so much.
 
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I don't think anybody is going to light up the Big 12 playing QB for Kansas. Just saying.

I know they did it a couple of years ago when they went to the Orange Bowl, but then they fired Mangino, Turner Gill showed up and so did the real Kansas again.
 
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In response to 5-star WR Deontay Greenberry flipping to Houston today
paraphrase from another board said:

Coach Brian Kelly wanted the focus to be on the 16 players who signed, rather than the one (5-star WR Deontay Greenberry) who didn't. "I used to have a saying about players like that and that was I'd rather play against him for four games than with him for four years," he told UND.com​
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