Brian Kelley at Notre Dame

decent D last year but lost 9 starters. If he hires a good DC he will do pretty damn well. It does hurt him though that Clausen and Tate are leaving. He has won everywhere he has gone and I don't see Notre Dame being any different.

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It seemed like Kelly was the first name mentioned after Weis was fired and now, 2 weeks later, Kelly is (supposedly) about to be hired.

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I agree with this thinking. Why wouldn't ND wait until after the bowl season to really talk to someone. I know they need a coach for recruiting purposes, but I think they are jumping on a coach to quickly.

They should put out more feelers to see who may be interested, most coaches right now aren't going to say anything until after their bowl game.

I think it'll be interesting none the less.

Michael Floyd=Marty Gilyard

And he can plug and play with his quarterback.

He won't be able to lure top pro style QBs to ND anymore, but should be able to get a bump in athletes at the skill positions. The big question is his defense as ND was absolutley dominated on the the D-line this year. Manti Te'o will provide a nice LB to buold around and I think they have some skill in their secondary.

If they have the same cake schedule next year, I see 9-3, with BCS bowls the following year on.

Bad move

Prediction: In his third season Kelly has enough offense to beat all of his opponents except USC (Matt Barkley shreds his D) but because it's Notre Dame and they only have one loss they will play in the NC game and will get utterly destroyed by an SEC defense.

i have heard that he is a defensive minded coach. just sayin.....and i know he lost almost his entire D from last year due to gradualtion. i really do not know though.

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I mean the guy is a good coach but has no defense what-so-ever. The only reason he had success at Cincy was because his offense put up the points, but they couldn't stop any one on the D side of the ball.

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#25 scoring D last year.

He lost 9 starters between then and now.

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You can't be in shoot-out every week with some of the opponents that ND play.

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Cinci's schedule>>>>>>>>>>>ND's

The guys knows how to coach college kids. That in itself makes him an improvement. I personally would have preferred Edsall or even Skip Holtz who will probably be another Kelly in a few years. It's all about the DC, IMO.

As for Meyer, I think he dug his own grave by reaffirming ad nauseam his commitment to UF. ND doesn't want to look foolish going after him, and sooner or later Meyer's going to pay for being the Belle of the ball that wants to make herself seem so unapproachable. A couple of years without his starts on offense and an improving SEC West and he'll wish he'd taken a better posture with Notre Dame.

That said, I wouldn't want an Urban Meyer offense at Notre Dame anyway. I prefer running games like UA balanced with consistent and occasionally brilliant QB play in basic sets. Too bad neither LSU or ND (I went to both schools) has it.

The smartest thing for ND and Kelly to do is seal up this deal BEFORE the Sugar Bowl, not coach the bowl game and get the frick out of Cincy. If he coaches against Florida AFTER having accepted the Notre Dame job and gets blown out it's going to look really bad on both ND and Kelly's part.

And I think they should worry about pressing Meyer harder. He is much easier to get having lost the SEC championship game, and he will work better at ND.