Rabalais “There’s only one way Kelly can stop the ridicule”

sounds like a trash article full of low-hanging fruit.

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Kelly can change all of that with a trophy or two but it will take time.

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really going out on a limb. who is this rabalais. he's very insightful.

somebody at LSU must have put their tee tee in something close to Danny

Kelly is going to face this his entire career here unless he wins a championship. Sucks but it's reality.

National media is trashing him for leaving ND

Southern/sec will just compare his results to Napier

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It was game 1, season 1 for Kelly with a roster built by necessity through the transfer portal. I don't know what people were expecting. Our line was worse than I thought but otherwise I wasn't shocked we didn't go out there and beat the brakes off of Florida State either

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I wasn't expecting a win or a loss, but I was expecting it to appear like they had their shite together (which it did not). You can't blame not having your shite together on Game 1, Season1 and new roster.

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Suggesting LSU was far from looking like the team in 2019

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You mean a team that has a new coach because the last one was fired after going .500 the last two seasons is far away from the greatest team of all time?

“Journalism”

For many in the national media a perpetual 10-11 win coach leaving the hallowed halls of Notre Dame to coach a program at a "far less" prestigious public institution (both academically and in football history) in the "backwards" south is unfathomable. Thus, they are getting their shots in a Kelly for such a "dumb" decision. Of course, this ignores the fact that (a) the guy is a football coach...not the dean emeritus of the university and (b) that football program in the south has won THREE national championships...while ND hasn't done so in 25 years (and counting).

It is easy to laugh at the guy from Massachusetts trying to sound like those backwoods idiots from the south when the results...after ONE game mind you...aren't favorable. Of course, the underlying and unspoken reason for the vitriol is because those in the national media don't like YOU (i.e. the southern resident/fan). They are better than YOU uneducated, (mostly) conservative, bible/gun huggers. So it is "funny" to see a very successful northeast guy fail because he was dumb enough to leave the prestige of Notre Dame to live amongst such irrelevant and second class people.

It's not that the media necessarily dislikes Brian Kelly. They just can't understand why someone from MA, coaching at ND, would chose to live and work with YOU people

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It was game 1, season 1 for Kelly with a roster built by necessity through the transfer portal.

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yep. And if does what needs to be done, this year, and makes that game look like a fluke by eliminating those mistakes (i.e. never to be seen again) a trophy, this year, is not needed.

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I don't know what people were expecting. Our line was worse than I thought but otherwise I wasn't shocked we didn't go out there and beat the brakes off of Florida State either.

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Keep in mind, just a little context, that might be one of the best DL's we face this year with an above average LB corp that played above their mendoza line (because we made it easy for them) in that game.

So the context is that just might be the floor for the OL. And it was bad, but we've seen worse and the offense had several opportunities.

- 1st game, 1st time OC'g, 1st time at C, 1st snaps at OG at Div-I level, freshman LT.
- first time they've played together
- a future NFLer on DE and probably, nay- likely, 2 in the middle.

JD has some significant improvement, but he made hay.

If this is the worst we will see, with the appropriate personnel changes, it's not really that bad.

It doesnt help the ridicule when local idiot media makes snarky remarks in press conferences giving the national media another thing to run to embarrass him. Thanks Leah Vann, please STFU next time.