Kelly is an average coach propped up via coaching at a 1%'er program.
And the only reason anyone supports him is because people believe that somehow instead of ND just ending up with yet another comparable average coach, or hopefully someone better, that another Daviehamweis caliber coach will be hired instead.
Truth of the matter is that the probability of any one program making that many bad hires in a row is extremely rare. Based upon their professional performances post-ND, one could make a very compelling and rational argument that Davie, Willingham, and Weis are among some of the worst head coaches in college football history. The fact that ND actually hired such bad coaches three times in a row is a statistical anomaly not likely to happen again.
That people can't realize that and are so frightened of it happening again, is very frustrating.
Its pretty evident that while Kelly is clearly better than three of the worst coaches in college football history, he is nowhere near an elite coach and he is underperforming in comparison to most of his contemporaries and that ND will not reach its full potential as a football program under his leadership.
These are all pretty clear and observable facts and its just not rational to me why some people can't realize this and cling so fearfully to Kelly like a child clutching their blanky while staring at the cracked door of the bedroom closet waiting for the Daviehamweis boogie man to jump out.
