You have a knack for moving the goalposts with just about every post. You wrote: “About the only positive BK did was dominate USC,” and now you’re saying “BK didn’t do anything of note.” He didn’t do anything positive?We can simply look at this how we choose....meaning what bar and what level....are you using to measure success?
CW has nothing to do with this....
but since you want to poke fun at the academies expense to say a coach did a poor job...
Brian Kelly got trucked by Navy once and lost a second one by a point. Still a loss.
All that said BK didn't win anything of note here.
Christ it took a weird Covid year playing an opponent without key cogs(TL and others) to finally beat a Top 5 team. You mean that year alone? No. Ever. Like ever in his career he has only one...and you could argue that should be an asterisk season win due to covid...just one top 5 victory in his career.
That's pretty remarkable.
Christ Gerry Faust had a better record against top ranked teams because he actually won one of them
I was a student sitting in the stands for the Georgia Tech game, the first of the season, in which we looked completely and utterly unprepared and got ran off the field in embarrassing fashion. Then, I sat there watching Air Force run us over at ND stadium, to drop us to 1-9. You can take that as a slight on the service academies, but the fact was was that a team with the players we had should not be getting manhandled buy a team like Air Force.
Charlie Weis did better the next few seasons, got a few good recruits, but the program was an absolute dire shape. Kelly took that same program, and made it competitive taking us to a national championship game, taking us to the college football playoffs, recruiting well enough that he left a top five type of team for Freeman to work with. Freemans recruiting might take us over the top and we are in much, much better shape now than 12-13 years ago.
Look at all the power programs over the past 12 or 13 years and see what’s happened to them and how much they have won. We did better than most of them despite having stricter Admissions policies, with our players taking classes with every day students like me.