Brian Kelly vs Marcus Freeman

One thing that really bugs me about this comparison, that I rarely see brought up is the blatant disregard of logic and circumstances. When BK left ND, NIL was a new/unknown concept and it was a 4 team playoff. Now, your wealthy donor can straight up buy players and it is a 12 team playoff. ND is a shoe in to make the 12 team playoff every year and everyone talks them up non stop. BK would’ve been in a 12 team playoff for the last 5 or 6 years he coached there. ND alumni are also heavily invested and football and have deep pockets, it’s no surprise AT ALL that they can field better teams now than when BK was there. And then the next talking point, “o well ND beat Georgia and made the natty final”. OMG. Sure they beat Georgia, whose 2 year starting QB got injured in their conference championship game. Everybody loves to ignore that. The playoff committee didn’t think FSU could even qualify for the playoff when their starting QB got hurt, but yea we’ll just ignore Georgias QB getting hurt cuz he wasn’t that good. He only threw for 4,000 and 3,500 yds in his 2 starting years. I’m sure them throwing an underclassmen who had never started a big game into the biggest game of their season didn’t matter at all. It’s ridiculous. Who’s else did they beat? A bad Indiana team at home and a classic underachieving Penn state. Comparing the 2 is really like a fight where 1 guy has a hand tied behind his back and saying hey look that 2 armed guy is better. BK had ND in the national championship game in his 3rd season too, without NIL.

Now I don’t care about BK, and I agree it was probably time for him to go. But don’t go around and say Marcus Freeman looks like a great replacement. The guy is clearly overrated and gets credit for losing to good teams and beating bad teams.