re: I don’t think the 2-pt try was JUST “cajones.”

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It was actually insane.

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It was actually very, very sane. You have the ball at the 2 yard line with a chance to beat a 14 point favorite, on your home field, without them ever touching the ball again. You want to turn that down? Turning that opportunity down to go to a second OT and giving an Alabama offense that had scored points on each of their previous 4 possessions would have been more insane. You don't need hindsight. That was 100% the right call in the moment. In fact, if you give me the ball on the two yard line with the chance to win the game on one play I'm taking it 100% of the time.

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Had it failed, every last one of you would be calling for Kelly's head today.

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Who gives a shite? It is year 1 for Kelly in a season where expectations will be the lowest in his entire LSU tenure. There was ZERO personal risk for him from a job security perspective in making that decision, and everything to gain. If it failed he still showed the players he believed in them. If it was successful...well...you are seeing the fruits of that.

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Your successor just had a bigger win, in his 10th game as a head coach, than you've had in your entire career. Yes, your Irish defeated #3 Clemson (in overtime) 2 years ago, but if memory serves, Trevor Lawrence was out that game along with 3 defensive starters, and when you played them again 6 weeks later, Clemson squished you like a bug, 34-10.

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Yes, I'm sure ND fans are thrilled with their 6-3 record (including a home loss to 5-4 Marshall) one season after going 11-1 just because they beat Clemson. Freeman has lost almost as many games (4) in his first 10 games as Kelly did at ND in his last four YEARS (6). I'm sure BK had a brief thought of "we might want to play it safe here. Notre Dame is on the verge of a Cheez-it Bowl birth. I'm going to be crushed for leaving that kind of success if this 2 point try fails."

Win or lose, it was the right call

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Your successor just had a bigger win, in his 10th game as a head coach, than you've had in your entire career. Yes, your Irish defeated #3 Clemson (in overtime) 2 years ago, but if memory serves, Trevor Lawrence was out that game along with 3 defensive starters, and when you played them again 6 weeks later, Clemson squished you like a bug, 34-10.

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Oh FFS, Alabama would smoke Clemson. The only thing that made it maybe a bigger win is Notre Dame is a lot worse team and it was a much bigger upset. Clemson has struggled in over half their games this year and it was only a matter of time before they finally slipped up.

What his predecessor has done is take a team Kelly built with a lot of returning talent and led them to a 3-3 start to the season with losses to Marshall (5-4) and Stanford (3-6)

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but if memory serves, Trevor Lawrence was out that game along with 3 defensive starters, and when you played them again 6 weeks later, Clemson squished you like a bug, 34-10.

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If memory serves, Notre Dame was playing the exact same QB Saturday that Kelly beat, only Clemson is not nearly the team everywhere else they were when Kelly beat them 2 years ago.

Honestly, it's people like you that will never be satisfied with Kelly because you've already drawn a line in the sand that he isn't a good coach. He's now had back to back wins over top 10 team, but apparently that isn't good enough, and the only reason you can come up with is if had he lost people's reactions may have been different. Really?