Which were kelly's 3 best coached ND games?

[cgvr]

3 worst?

I'm thinking that Oklahoma, FSU and last year's michigan game were his best. (I threw michigan in even though they weren't very good because it was a pummeling send off and a perfect statement game)
(Stanford '12 honorable mention. What a great game...)

His worst:
South Florida
Tulsa
Northwestern
(Pitt in '12 gets honorable mention as the numbers mistake could have knocked us out of contention)

 

[Epictitus]

Kelly has many more well coached games than for an ND hater to focus on a few games were mistakes were made. Brian Kelly will have many more well coached games and why he is considered by most as one of the nations best coaches.

 

[Classic Irish]

southern cal in 2010? LSU?

 

[Shakin' Down the Thunder]

Utah in Kelly's first year at ND in 2010. ND morale was down and things were not looking good. He was able to lead his team through adversity and overcome. That never would have happened with Weis.

Stanford in 2012 when ND beat them in OT.

Last year against FSU. Still pains me how that game was robbed.

 

[IrishBlooded]

35 - 17 loss to Navy (a week after claiming to practice against the option every week)
Tulsa
South Florida

Honorable mention to Northwestern and that stupid 2 point conversion.

 

[FightingIrish44]

2010 Utah was a great job. As the above poster mentioned, ND was coming off a tough loss to a bad team and they pounded a highly ranked team. Great job preparing for Utah's somewhat unique formations/plays. 2010 Navy was horrific. Unbelieveable how poorly Kelly and Diaco understood option football. Didn't know how to line up to particular formations nor did they understand option principles. They've gotten better, but still not where they should be. Oklahoma 2013 was prettt bad too with not adjusting to OU's motions though they fixed this issue vs ASU in 2013.

 

[no1e]

Kelly has many more well coached games than for an ND hater to focus on a few games were mistakes were made. Brian Kelly will have many more well coached games and why he is considered by most as one of the nations best coaches.

 

[cgvr]

Utah in Kelly's first year at ND in 2010. ND morale was down and things were not looking good. He was able to lead his team through adversity and overcome. That never would have happened with Weis.

Stanford in 2012 when ND beat them in OT.

Last year against FSU. Still pains me how that game was robbed.

The fsu game reminded me of the bush push game.... So close....

The Utah game is an interesting call.

Back in 2010 we were coming off back to back losses to Navy and Tulsa and were "listing" at 4-5.

Utah was running at 8-1 and putting up huge #'s, but they were pasted the week before us by TCU 47-7 at home. That may have softened them up a bit. They hadn't really played anyone solid except maybe pitt?

http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/u/utah/2010-2014_yearly_results.php

Turning the season from 4-5 to 8-5 with consecutive closing wins over Utah, Army, southern cal and miami was a good swing.

PS I was pleasantly surprised at how easily we handled miami in the Sun Bowl. miami was coming off consecutive losses to V Tech, So Fl and we buried their season. Factoid: so fl beat miami by the same score they would beat us by to open the next season 23-20....

 

[Invincible Lucky Green]

3 worst?

I'm thinking that Oklahoma, FSU and last year's michigan game were his best. (I threw michigan in even though they weren't very good because it was a pummeling send off and a perfect statement game)
(Stanford '12 honorable mention. What a great game...)

His worst:
South Florida
Tulsa
Northwestern
(Pitt in '12 gets honorable mention as the numbers mistake could have knocked us out of contention)

I completely disagree with the FSU game. Going for it on 4 & 2 at his own 48 changed the momentum of the game. Even the FSU players thanked him for this ridiculous decision...and I am sure did not help the confidence of the team when he showed desperation so early. Of course the illegal pick play was a bad call as well.. If he did not brow beat Golson every play, Golson would have scored instead of sliding down at the 3 yard line.

It is hard to pick out his 3 best coached games. LSU...definitely because he called plays based on a game plan and personnel and stuck to it instead of going into his usual panic mode and tossing the ball all over the field.

Ok sticks out as a well coached game. Maybe Michigan last year too.

If this thread was about his worst three games, well...Pandora's box.

 

[cgvr]

I completely disagree with the FSU game. Going for it on 4 & 2 at his own 48 changed the momentum of the game. Even the FSU players thanked him for this ridiculous decision...and I am sure did not help the confidence of the team when he showed desperation so early. Of course the illegal pick play was a bad call as well.. If he did not brow beat Golson every play, Golson would have scored instead of sliding down at the 3 yard line.

It is hard to pick out his 3 best coached games. LSU...definitely because he called plays based on a game plan and personnel and stuck to it instead of going into his usual panic mode and tossing the ball all over the field.

Ok sticks out as a well coached game. Maybe Michigan last year too.

If this thread was about his worst three games, well...Pandora's box.

Thanks for the feedback. I think Oklahoma was his blue ribbon event. Folks would do well to analyze the box score and pay close attention to the 4th 1/4.
I will take your word on the bad playcalling in the fsu game and have no desire to rewatch it. In spite of what you describe we were in a game that I didn't think we had much of a chance in..... PS if you get a chance watch the '77 southern cal game. It is on YouTube and I watched it 1-2 months ago. Holy sh** were we violent. Lot's of mistakes in that game and we still smeared them.....

 

[mokpra37]

USC 2010, Oklahoma 2012, Michigan 2014

 

[cgvr]

USC 2010, Oklahoma 2012, Michigan 2014

Interesting call on the southern cal game. We snapped an 8 game losing streak to them with that W and the "weight of the world" on that rivalry was lifted. (southern cal was forced to vacate the 2005 bush push game)
In 2010 carroll had fled town leaving them with kiffin at the helm. Anyway, heading into the game southern cal was 7-4 having lost to Washington, Stanford, Oregon and the week before us Oregon State 36-7. Going into LA and getting that win was excellent and a perfect ending to an imperfect season.

Following up that win with a thumping of Miami was great. That's pretty solid back to back rivalry wins.

PS '13's win over southern cal was special too. It was great seeing that classless blockhead orgeron in despair. Talk about a sore f'ing loser.....

 

[shooter1977]

Best three: Oklahoma, Michigan St. 2012, LSU

Worst three: Last year's USC game was a throwback to the Weis/Willingham era. Having no answers for Navy in 2010 was rough, and we got blown out at home by Stanford in 2010. Although that was a loaded Stanford team.

 

[hvillebill]

I would go with LSU three times over.

After the debacle at SC I had given up on CK, but he came through.

Here's hoping he learned from that and continues to use that O-line and pound on teams.

 

[cgvr]

Best three: Oklahoma, Michigan St. 2012, LSU

Worst three: Last year's USC game was a throwback to the Weis/Willingham era. Having no answers for Navy in 2010 was rough, and we got blown out at home by Stanford in 2010. Although that was a loaded Stanford team.

Yeah, that southern cal game looked like no coaching at all. Plus, the circumstances of introducing Zaire as a last resort were troubling. I'm baffled that kelly didn't use him earlier in the season and seemed to stumble across him out of complete desperation in that southern cal game.

His "mismanagement" of Zaire should be near the top of some list....