BK is now sort of 'hated' as like a national joke, or meme or something, on the CFB landscape, which went totally viral and nationwide when he took the LSU job. And there's these made up myths and canards and hate campaigns that now float in the ether, and only exist because of psycho, bizarrely bloodthirsty, spiteful ND fans. We should have fired him when he went 4-8. It would have been reasonable enough, he'd been there 7 years. And he probably would have taken a job at like, Oregon St., or something like that, and presumably would have continued to do quite well for himself. And none of this free floating BK hate and casual contempt would even exist. But then he totally recovered, and went on the tear that I was always anticipating from the beginning, and which he was close to achieving in year three, when things got derailed a little bit when old boy got suspended and Tommy Rees had to take over. And yet belatedly he was able to achieve the mission, get ND to perennial power status. And that's when all the vitriol and inexplicable loathing and hostility began to kick in. Right when we started finally winning on a regular basis. I watched it happen. Nobody even wanted him fired all that bad after '16 other than a shrill minority.
So something really pathological happened to the ND fanbase somewhere along the line. Aided of course by the Opus Dei-esque culture/tradition cult or however you might call them at ND Nation website, who totally hated BK from day one and never relented all the way through. And who carry themselves like genuine fanatics and snide true believers, and BK is their enemy, their bete noire. To be publicly spat on and denigrated, with sincerity and conviction and vigor, and real emotion, whenever the spirit moves, as if to periodically cleanse one's soul, absolutely reminding you at times of '2 minutes hate' from 1984. And he ended up ND's all-time winningest coach, while also far and away ND's most hated coach, like nobody else in ND's illustrious history. And the powers that be, however sensitive they were or not to the restless natives, loved what BK did for the program. And held on tight to the guy. And he left the program in awesome shape for his successor to keep the good times coming. And god bless MF, he's doing it. And very presumably, if he was still here, BK would also still be doing it.
Anyway, I figure he recovers from this. 8-4/9-3 is what I expecting from the start for this year's LSU team, so this almost prefabricated narrative of what a bum BK is, now freely indulged in by the more surly LSU fans is particularly overwrought IMO, though they did get stomped last night. And we have ND fans to thank for that. They created this monster. BK should be revered and loved, or at least admired, by any reasonable or civil standard, and yet he is despised and loathed, and at best is coolly appreciated by a cautious subset of fans, and would not be welcome back on campus. That's his legacy.
