NOTRE DAME
The weather was terrible. Clemson's a pretty good opponent. Death Valley's a challenging place to play. Notre Dame's had terrible injury luck and faced unfortunate turnover luck in this game.
To a certain group of Fighting Irish supporters, these facts are unimportant. All that truly matters is that the Clemson game was A Brian Kelly Loss.
A Brian Kelly Loss requires three things:
Going for 2 with the score 21-9 was a complete and utter disgrace. Shades of Northwestern 2014 all over again. Can this guy not count.
There is literally no rational explanation why it would make sense to go for two at that point in time. Kick the extra point, if you score again and they have not scored, then you go for two. This is what it says on every chart ever created by any human who ever sucked air from this atmosphere.
Kelly must be a subterranean eel. Leave him on the tarmac.
Two weeks later: "Rutgers Hires Subterranean Eel":
Disorganized, lack of discipline, sloppy. Typical Kelly loss. These have happened too often to be surprised though. It's what failure looks like and we've become used to it. I expect more this year. It's what ND is under Kelly. It's always gonna be what ND is with Kelly. He's just not good enough to go to the next level and tonight was just another data point.
OK, hopefully you're feeling limber. It's time for the first trip this season to ... ND Nation:
The players deserve better. ND supposedly strives to excel in all endeavors. Clearly Kelly is past his ability, time to cut him loose.
Despite the players mistakes, the loss is on Kelly. Going for 2 so early in the fourth quarter is a mistake tfor which he should opplogive to each and every player individually.
How many times has Kelly had to defend a contentious call during his tenure? It's not like this is the first boneheaded play he has called during his tenure. I don't recall Holtz saying my "senior advisor" agreed with my call. It is apparent that his IQ is average and that he is not quick witted and that such calls are going to cost a game or two every year.
If we're not winning, then we're whining.
And I am as guilty of this as the next fan.
I feel like I'm locked in a 5 Stages of Grieving looped tape of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Iook around this small room with no window and no doors and Sartre taps out a message from an adjoining cell that reads "No...Exit."
This is all pretty solid ND Nation material: invocation of a coach who hasn't worked in South Bend in 20 years, suggestions that Kelly is too stupid for the job, insistence that Notre Dame be the best at everything and accept nothing less, for that way lies BOSTON COLLEGENESS, and a needless moment of, "Hey look, I took a class on existentialist theater; ask me about Beckett!"
But we need something more. Something TRULY ND Nation:
I didn't like the way Clemson got to enter the field through the tunnel with the ramp while we were made to shuffle in quietly off to the side. I wish Kelly would have marched the team in right down the middle of that ramp and put the chip on our guy's shoulders and punched them in the mouth like he said we needed too. Sometimes you need some visuals to augment your prep and execution.
Oh, yeah. That's the stuff.
The weather was terrible. Clemson's a pretty good opponent. Death Valley's a challenging place to play. Notre Dame's had terrible injury luck and faced unfortunate turnover luck in this game.
To a certain group of Fighting Irish supporters, these facts are unimportant. All that truly matters is that the Clemson game was A Brian Kelly Loss.
A Brian Kelly Loss requires three things:
- Notre Dame loses and
- Brian Kelly is the coach and
- Notre Dame does something wrong at some point, which may or may not be attributable to Brian Kelly:
Going for 2 with the score 21-9 was a complete and utter disgrace. Shades of Northwestern 2014 all over again. Can this guy not count.
There is literally no rational explanation why it would make sense to go for two at that point in time. Kick the extra point, if you score again and they have not scored, then you go for two. This is what it says on every chart ever created by any human who ever sucked air from this atmosphere.
Kelly must be a subterranean eel. Leave him on the tarmac.
Two weeks later: "Rutgers Hires Subterranean Eel":
Disorganized, lack of discipline, sloppy. Typical Kelly loss. These have happened too often to be surprised though. It's what failure looks like and we've become used to it. I expect more this year. It's what ND is under Kelly. It's always gonna be what ND is with Kelly. He's just not good enough to go to the next level and tonight was just another data point.
OK, hopefully you're feeling limber. It's time for the first trip this season to ... ND Nation:
The players deserve better. ND supposedly strives to excel in all endeavors. Clearly Kelly is past his ability, time to cut him loose.
Despite the players mistakes, the loss is on Kelly. Going for 2 so early in the fourth quarter is a mistake tfor which he should opplogive to each and every player individually.
How many times has Kelly had to defend a contentious call during his tenure? It's not like this is the first boneheaded play he has called during his tenure. I don't recall Holtz saying my "senior advisor" agreed with my call. It is apparent that his IQ is average and that he is not quick witted and that such calls are going to cost a game or two every year.
If we're not winning, then we're whining.
And I am as guilty of this as the next fan.
I feel like I'm locked in a 5 Stages of Grieving looped tape of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Iook around this small room with no window and no doors and Sartre taps out a message from an adjoining cell that reads "No...Exit."
This is all pretty solid ND Nation material: invocation of a coach who hasn't worked in South Bend in 20 years, suggestions that Kelly is too stupid for the job, insistence that Notre Dame be the best at everything and accept nothing less, for that way lies BOSTON COLLEGENESS, and a needless moment of, "Hey look, I took a class on existentialist theater; ask me about Beckett!"
But we need something more. Something TRULY ND Nation:
I didn't like the way Clemson got to enter the field through the tunnel with the ramp while we were made to shuffle in quietly off to the side. I wish Kelly would have marched the team in right down the middle of that ramp and put the chip on our guy's shoulders and punched them in the mouth like he said we needed too. Sometimes you need some visuals to augment your prep and execution.
Oh, yeah. That's the stuff.
