Love the new BK this year..got me pumped!

[Quest4Twelve]

 

[stu4don]

nice

 

[Bodizephax]

I have always liked him (except for three to four days after every Irish loss).

He seems extra confidant this year. You can tell he loves his players.

 

[IrishMike409]

Awesome video. This team is so focused, so locked in.

 

[Telx1]

I have always liked him (except for three to four days after every Irish loss).

He seems extra confidant this year. You can tell he loves his players.

And you can tell his players love him! Really an amazing transformation in style.

 

[LH24ND]

Great job by all.

 

[NDTitan]

Pretty sure it was swallow his pride or take a hike. I am glad he swallowed his pride...finally. This team is tough.

 

[Irish_cajun]

I wanted him gone before the season, oh boy how was i wrong. People change, and the way he interacts with the players now is awesome. He is letting his coaches coach, no micro managing, and the players now enjoy being around him. He said himself, he now realizes what type of players Notre Dame can and cannot recruit, "Notre Dame shops down a different isle than everyone else" Now i am hoping he doesn't leave for a Pro gig.

 

[zonairish]

Watching his reaction after the blocked punt and then watching his reaction after the tieing TD's he knows this team is special

 

[LH24ND]

I wanted him gone before the season, oh boy how was i wrong. People change, and the way he interacts with the players now is awesome. He is letting his coaches coach, no micro managing, and the players now enjoy being around him. He said himself, he now realizes what type of players Notre Dame can and cannot recruit, "Notre Dame shops down a different isle than everyone else" Now i am hoping he doesn't leave for a Pro gig.

I don't see him leaving for the Malcontents in the NFL.

 

[Epictitus]

I am also very pleased with the change in Brian Kelly. He seems more focused on keeping his players his priority while allowing competent assistants to make crucial decisions.

I am particularly pleased with his composure on the sidelines. His ranting and vulgarity previously shown didn't not serve him well as a person and certainly not in recruiting.

 

[Telx1]

Times change and the days of the Woody Hayes style of coaching are long gone, and some combination of a supportive encouraging back slapping hugging cheerleading disciplinarian style has emerged. I want the HC to be selectively pissed when a player or coach does a major screw up, but I want to see genuine excitement and congrats on major successes, etc... and Kelly seems to have finally found the right combination for him and this generation of players.

 

[KJ23]

He Changed.....Team is focused....Good CEO's have to change and swallow their pride. He did just that....

 

[hvillebill]

Pretty sure it was swallow his pride or take a hike. I am glad he swallowed his pride...finally. This team is tough.

I imagine most of us have had to take a long look in the mirror at some point in our lives. We always thought we were right, but a real man has to ultimately be honest with himself. I think BK did that.

 

[HRC08]

Watching his reaction after the blocked punt and then watching his reaction after the tieing TD's he knows this team is special

This!!!! All season but it’s easy to be “above the fray” of mistakes when your team’s up every game. In the past, he’d attack a player’s decision no matter the score though so I’d end the game by giving him credit for changing this ugly part of his dna.

I nearly had to pray that he would be chill when facing the inevitable “USC let down” that we’d face in the first quarter of the NC State game. I knew that he’d blow it and lash out instead of trusting his guys to figure it out. I admit that I wanted to hide when they blocked a punt never imagining that the God Lord would test Brian Kelly so blatantly and so early... but Kelly bit his tough and didn’t turn purple while doing so. He actually managed a few breaths. Maybe he has changed?

 

[stu4don]

Great article on UND.COM about Kelly coaching softball when he was at Assumption College.

Ann McInerney, now the associate head women's basketball coach at Holy Cross, recalls her days on the softball field with Kelly.

"He was awesome, very passionate. We loved him," she says. "We were very sad the day he decided to leave, but he left behind a pretty good legacy for us.

"Brian was fiery. He coached with so much passion. As a third base coach you rounded second, you were looking for the signals for what he's doing, and he's constantly jumping up and down, waving you home, pushing your limits. Whether you got thrown out at the plate or not, he was always pushing us to be the best we could be, and we enjoyed what we did with him. He was great."

Kelly learned more than his share of lessons from those early coaching days.

"I found out that they play because they love to play," he says. "That was just pure coaching. All you cared about was the preparation and the game. A lot of teams don't have the mental toughness to keep fighting. That team did."