re: Please list the reasons you don’t like Brian Kelly

I think it’s a good hire, but:

He needs to bring back some of the offensive concepts from his Cincy days to attract better QBs in the future. Kelly should have Walker Howard to start, since he’s already shown interest in Kelly with a visit to ND. If he can modernize the offense and develop Howard, then we will keep bringing in dynamic offensive players.

Great post.

He killed a student

Old? He is 60. He can easily give us six strong years of football. You would have probably got equal years from any coach

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The people who don’t want him because he’s never coached in the south are the same people who wanted O because he was from here.

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My only concern when Saban was hired was recruiting because of geography. Boy was I wrong. Turns out that having to recruit against tOSU and MI when you are the runt is pretty good education. I'll never make that mistake again- and we shouldn't now. Don't assume Kelly can't recruit. I know you didn't mention recruiting specifically, but I can't think of any other correlation to "coaching" and geography that it could be referring to. I'm saying this to the people here that would cite never being in the south as a limit of recruiting potential, not you specifically.

I'll add to your post with something I saw in another thread: Yes, we have a culture problem. I'm not talking about weed or any or disciplinary issue. I'm talking about team concepts, attitudes, and dedication to put in the work. Is Kelly the guy to fix that? Dunno. He seems to have a higher potential for that than several others we've considered (not named Aranda).

- His age
- Cultural misfit
- Unproven track record against SEC level competition (Notre Dame has a losing record against the SEC since he took over, with most of his wins being against…. Well, us.)
- His offenses stall out against elite teams

Is there any team that wanted him if they had a blank check book? This is the most LSU hire ever. We could have saved money if we were going for a low ceiling kind of Coach that we would have to replace in five years anyway.

I hate this hire, not sorry at all.

Because he’s not Riley/thread

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3-8 record vs top ten teams

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Probably playing against 75% of players who couldn’t get in to ND. I think he will do well here. He’s got to want that allusive tittle that he knew he couldn’t get at ND.

It's a private institution… you can take who you want lol

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- Cultural misfit

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I don't get this or any reference to "a good fit"

Firstly, we had Les Miles as a coach. Dude was relatable for sure, and likeable, but as far as "fit" goes he was his own planet.

Secondly, what is "good fit"? What exactly is that? Is clothes? Accent? Eating habits? The man obviously sits down with recruits and parents from all over the country and I haven't heard of any of them throwing him out.

Thirdly, even if you can define it- why the hell does it matter? I personally never gave a shite about mannerisms, accents, or any of that shite. Some coaches were teachers, some were screamers, but "fit" was never even a factor.