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Fighting Kelly’s of LSU

Brian Kelly tends to have seasons where he's all in or all out (thinking of some of the up and down seasons during the first half or so of his ND career).

LSU literally has nothing to play for at this point. It wouldn't surprise me if they've collectively mailed it in and LSU has one of those seasons where the bottom just kind of falls out from under it only to return next year refreshed and better than ever.
Mailing it in? OK.....10 mil is some expensive postage......

OT: Death, Taxes and Lebron James

You can write all you want about the goat being between Jordan and lebrenda but it’s Jordan and everyone else. Lebron is an all time top 5-10 player and his longevity gives him a leg up in the argument against others but he’s not the 2nd best player ever, imo. I’d take a few others before him. Top 5 or 10 at his best compared to the rest at their best. I know this’ll ruffle the two worshippers’ feathers but I’m talking about all time players in their prime compared to Lebron’s prime (which admittedly is longer than any other, so if that’s the criteria, he’s the best for longest, but I’m looking at it from who’s better in their primes). He’s not #2 imho.
How many championships did LeBron win?

How about Jordan, How many did he win ?

Fighting Kelly’s of LSU

A loss to Vandy is looming. That would be four in a row. If reports that Kelly has lost the locker room are accurate, then they will lose that game too, in front of 100k fans and their water bottles. Kelly is on very thin ice, and its a beautiful thing. His snide shots at ND after he got to LSU haven't gone anywhere.....nor has his creepy dancing. He earned all of what is happening right now.
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OT: Death, Taxes and Lebron James

You can write all you want about the goat being between Jordan and lebrenda but it’s Jordan and everyone else. Lebron is an all time top 5-10 player and his longevity gives him a leg up in the argument against others but he’s not the 2nd best player ever, imo. I’d take a few others before him. Top 5 or 10 at his best compared to the rest at their best. I know this’ll ruffle the two worshippers’ feathers but I’m talking about all time players in their prime compared to Lebron’s prime (which admittedly is longer than any other, so if that’s the criteria, he’s the best for longest, but I’m looking at it from who’s better in their primes). He’s not #2 imho.

Meadows

🤣🤣🤣

Kelly stepped in and helped coach the D

🤣🤣🤣

Go to sleep you hater. Sleep it off

Umm, that’s factually true. Stated by Kelly that he had to help change freeman’s structure he developed for 9 months for the team because it was moronic. He didn’t say the moronic part but I will. Frichan foskey dropping in pass coverage half his reps. Golden had to come in and slowly re coach all our current players from what ever freeman was trying to do and completely change the scheme.

I appreciate freeman not having too much of an ego and allowing golden to completely change the defensive scheme.

Army - CFP

Interesting. Maybe the competition is weak, they lead the nation in just about every defensive stat even bettering ND. Their OL is up for the Joe Moore award.

I hope you’re right! I will never forget 93, BC, cruising into our 2nd natty. Then we were not. Let’s hope they are not thinking about USC!
Army is undefeated and ranked… they should be focused. They are well coached but not athletic, they have a tough stud qb that more physical than fast. Need the dline to disrupt him

Army - CFP

Yep, I think Navy is better than Army IMO (maybe no last few weeks) but I thought they were clearly better rolling into our game.

Interesting. Maybe the competition is weak, they lead the nation in just about every defensive stat even bettering ND. Their OL is up for the Joe Moore award.

I hope you’re right! I will never forget 93, BC, cruising into our 2nd natty. Then we were not. Let’s hope they are not thinking about USC!

Is Marcus Freeman already getting fed up with ND brass too?

As always, he's trying to start controversy where there is none.
Exactly right. Absolutely nothing in his response would even remotely suggest that MF is " fed up " with the administration at ND. What an attention whore Chase is. It's what you do when your football knowledge is limited to the number of stars next to a name.

Fighting Kelly’s of LSU

I think they should fire BK at this point. He can take his 60 million buyout, on top of the 30 million he's already earned, and retire, and sit on his pile of money, of 'generational wealth'. Thanks to ND fans, LSU fans have become equally bonkers and almost violently agitated over a three game losing streak. And they can replace their hated 'yankee' coach with someone hailing from south of the Mason Dixon line. Personally, I thought he was doing great. He took a legit dumpster fire program in total disarray, that he inherited from cajun favorite son Ed O., and had them in the SECCG first season. Recruited and developed a Heisman winner, who's probably even better than their beloved Joe Burrow. And was 6-1 this season before an improbable 2nd half comeback loss to A&M, and now the wheels have fallen off a bit, but it's not that god-awful of a crisis, and they stand at 6-4. And of course the bigger blow, losing BU. To a massive NIL deal that LSU wasn't able/going to match, that had absolutely nothing to do with BK himself. But he is the coach, so he does have to bear the blame anyway. He was not able to somehow save the situation, with some last minute in home visit or something. So that's his fault too.

So they should fire him. And just eat the money. And they learned their lesson. Don't hire BK!
The reality is, from 2010-2017, 2/3 of his tenure, he averaged 4.1 losses per year. The last 1/3 of his tenure 2018-2021 he was the beneficiary of weaker schedules. He's not a great coach, he's a good coach, and he's being exposed in the SEC.
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Fighting Kelly’s of LSU

LSU still has the #6 class in the country to NDs #12 class. LSU still has 2 other 5-star commits in '25 to NDs zero 5-star commits. LSU still has a 30+ year tenured head coach in Brian Kelly with a long track record of producing above the baseline that his talent suggests that he should.

If I had to make a best guess at what program has a brighter future at this point, my money is still on LSU/Brian Kelly. If we're going to evaluate these two programs into the future, its important that we use a metric that adjusts for opponent quality though (like F+) because the schedules are vastly different in terms of the level of competition.
I would make a wager on Brian Kelly not making it past 5 years at LSU. He's got 1-2 years left to show something. Another non-playoff year and he's probably done. You can talk all you want about his 2025 class, but starting next season, he's coaching with all the players he recruited or brought in from the portal. He no longer has an excuse of a rebuild. With the portal and zero restrictions at LSU a rebuild should happen much quicker than 4-5 years.

So here's what I propose chase. If Kelly gets fired or leaves LSU at the end of Brian Kelly's 5th season, you refrain from criticizing or posting anything negative about Notre Dame, the staff, the players, recruiting, and the administration for a period of two years. If Kelly is still coaching LSU in year 6, I'll leave the board for 2 years.

Meadows

He was an average DC that required Kelly to step in and help coach the D… that’s saying something

He has a chance to be a really good CEO.. we’ll see if he has taken a step forward this next 1-2 months. I sure hope so
Kelly has never impacted the defensive side of the ball. If he was able, last year at LSU would have been the year

Meadows

The problem is that there's very little upside/star players to be had in the transfer portal. Minus few exceptions, all of the upside is in highly rated HS prospects who haven't been evaluated/discarded by another FBS program.

We all want to guarantee a return on our investment with the least amount of risk possible .. but that comes at the cost of little to no upside on the roster.

ND needs to embrace the risk and have way more risk tolerance as it relates to their talent acquisition strategy/roster building.
Lol, that wasn’t your narrative when Deion was taking 45 transfers per year
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Is Marcus Freeman already getting fed up with ND brass too?

There's projected to be as many as 12 NFL HC job openings this upcoming offseason and HC MF has been linked to some of these jobs as per NFL Network & ESPN
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What an incredibly inane question

Who, specifically, linked MF to some of those jobs, and which jobs ?
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