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To be up there with Rockne and Leahy and Ara and Lou he has got to win at least one NC.The university straight up tells you who they are in that article. It’s amazing how many people don’t believe them. The job Brian Kelly has done working within these limitations at the highest level is truly remarkable. Two undefeated teams with the current program SOP really should already place him among the legendary coaches at Notre Dame.
Tom Osborne did several timesTo be up there with Rockne and Leahy and Ara and Lou he has got to win at least one NC.
I do agree that he has gotten better which is unusual in a coach who has been here as long as he has. 9 years. BUT at the same time the odds of him winning a NC is getting longer each year. Not many coaches win a NC after being at a school that long. NONE of ND's coaches who won their first one comes close to that. This year I think is by far his best shot. Frankly I doubt he will last long enough to get another this good.
most national media sold out long ago to ratings and whatever attracts attention. They are whores so to expect anything else is dumb.It still blows my mind that the national media doesn't celebrate and embrace more the notion of student-athletes, of doing things the right way. Academics first, athletics second. I know its pie in the sky thinking, but damn that is what it is suppose to be about. You want professional football? Then follow the games on Sundays. This is supposed to be "college" football. A game played by Student-athletes. I soooooo want us to prove to the world that that can still be the case. GOIRISH!!!!!
To be up there with Rockne and Leahy and Ara and Lou he has got to win at least one NC.
I do agree that he has gotten better which is unusual in a coach who has been here as long as he has. 9 years. BUT at the same time the odds of him winning a NC is getting longer each year. Not many coaches win a NC after being at a school that long. NONE of ND's coaches who won their first one comes close to that. This year I think is by far his best shot. Frankly I doubt he will last long enough to get another this good.
I used to think similarly, but with the acceptance that the program is currently operating under extreme disadvantages to the top competition also comes the acknowledgement that what Coach Kelly is doing is pretty special.
Could any of the other playoff coaches produce two undefeated seasons?
It’s easy to say yes Saban is the GOAT and could do the same, but he as only ever won at the highest levels with elite talent. He left a solid program at MSU because he didn’t feel he could win with the talent pool available there.
Rockne,Leahy, and Ara did not operate with the same standards as Coach Kelly either.
true but that talent is only there because of Saban.I used to think similarly, but with the acceptance that the program is currently operating under extreme disadvantages to the top competition also comes the acknowledgement that what Coach Kelly is doing is pretty special.
Could any of the other playoff coaches produce two undefeated seasons?
It’s easy to say yes Saban is the GOAT and could do the same, but he as only ever won at the highest levels with elite talent. He left a solid program at MSU because he didn’t feel he could win with the talent pool available there.
Rockne,Leahy, and Ara did not operate with the same standards as Coach Kelly either.
I’ll take undefeated seasons, a #3 ranking, and a shot at the title any day over the football factory system Saban and Myer have built. ND is better than all of them. Look at graduation rates and quality of student athlete ND produces vs Bama and OSU.
The BIG advantage that Rockne, Leahy, and Parseghian shared over the others were unlimited scholarship offers.
Then you should oppose the playoff and expansion of it. A drawn out postseason favors the teams with deepest talent pool. It in the team with limited resources to have it come down to one game.
I don't understand that at all. You just said the #7 team has to win three games instead of 1. The expanded playoff harms a UCF/Boise to benefit a talented but underperforming program like Florida.I don't want an expansion on the playoff because i don't want the regular season to be further watered down but i disagree with your post entirely.
A playoff expansion allows more teams into the playoff. And in 1 game playoff situation, because 1 game is a small sample size, anybody can beat anybody. So you will start to see a lot of the 5th, 6th, 7th, or 8th ranked teams or whatever (who would have never even made the current playoff) winning national titles.
I don't understand that at all. You just said the #7 team has to win three games instead of 1. The expanded playoff harms a UCF/Boise to benefit a talented but underperforming program like Florida.
Lol and bama would claim another dubious naty as well.If the old system was in play (when ND didn’t play Bowls) BK would have a Title.
Some legendary ND coaches have titles when they finished the regular season #1 & didn’t play in a bowl.
ND was #1 in both polls at the end of the regular season in 2012 & would have won the title back in the day.