re: He Could've Just Fired Sloan. CBK didn't want to be here anymore.

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It seems that he was mailing it it to me.

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It seems that way to everybody. Now. In hindsight after everything has come out. It didn’t seem that way in real time until this year if you’re being intellectually honest. Though he may have been since he got here, we didn’t see it.

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Again, to give him that contract was supremely stupid.

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I don’t get this take and it’s 100% made with 20/20 hindsight. It was what it took to poach the Notre Dame coach, who was in the middle of an 11-1 season and still had a legit chance of making the 4-team playoff. It was the absolute best hire we could have made on paper, and that contract is what it took. The market is/was the market. And, we were able to fire him 3 1/2 seasons into it, despite the buyout. The buyout didn’t prevent his firing 35% into the full contract, and it’s not gonna hamstring us when hiring a new coach. Sounds like 1 dude pretty much committed to paying almost all the buyout. Kelly goes 10-4, 10-3, 9-4, 5-3 and is shite-canned. How did the contract actually “hurt” us?

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Thanks, Scott.

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He did what he had to do to get the best coach available. You’re judging it based on the results—which weren’t even terrible—rather than the reasoning, which was sound. Didn’t work out, but the process/reasoning is more important than the results. Over the long haul. And it’s hard to fault the process of the hire. The narrative was always that the buyout was going to hamstring us and make us stuck with Kelly for 2 or 3 more years. That’s why we thought it was bad. But since we shut-canned him after just 3 1/2 years, clearly, we were all wrong about that. The money wound up not being an issue. We rounded it up in 24 hours.

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It'll be some years again before the program is relevant.

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What? On a Monday in late October, where 99% of the national media is focused on the NFL, we got talked about by Pate, Russillo, Cowherd, Klatt, and I’m assuming all the Barstool and ESPN guys. We’re more relevant today than we’ve been since Jayden won the Heisman Trophy—the 3rd in LSU history—in anomalous season where we didn’t really compete for the NC, which you almost have to to win it. Jayden put together maybe the best or 2nd best season (behind Burrow 5 seasons earlier) in the history of college football.

And national media today are talking all about how attractive our job is and who might take it. We’re super fricking relevant today. Not in the way we’d all like, but we are extremely relevant, nonetheless.

And in 2025, Indiana hired a coach 1 year ago, made the playoffs, and are currently ranked #2 in the country. How did any of this “set us back” or make us “irrelevant” for even ONE season, much less seasons plural? The right coach/QB could have us in the playoffs as soon as next season.

I don’t think you’re being intellectually honest. That, or you have no idea about the landscape of college football in 2025. Or don’t understand the definition of the word “relevant.”

by himself

Your notion of relevance is curious. Hahahahahaaaa

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Literally threatened to fire the special teams guy on the sidelines lmao

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In all fairness, he should’ve
Dude ran the same coverage 3 times in a row and was a tackle away from housing it again

That stuff was def leaked by Woody. No way Kelly would sacrifice his job for Sloan. That makes absolutely zero sense. If woody knew it was a bad hire, he has to save face somehow.

BK played his cards to get out and got his wish. You could tell that Kelly looked beat up and no interest in continuing. Even how he addressed the media was completely different. He went into that meeting knowing he was done either way it went.

The story sounds like BS.

Reading the tea leaves from various media sources, I think it's pretty clear Davis was one of Woody's plants on the staff and Woody went to bat for him when BK wanted to fire him, in addition to Sloan. BK probably figured out in that moment why Woody didn't want to fire him and called him out. Shouting match ensues, it's over at that point, just a matter of how they fire him.

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Finished 11-1 at ND in 2021, still didn’t make the playoffs so he quit & left for somewhere he could win it all at

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He actually left ND before they knew if they would or would not make the playoff. He quit on that team with a very real chance they they could be announced as a playoff team just days later.

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Daniel's improved himself with the goggles. Sloan was clueless.

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Not true. Sloan helped Daniels.
More importantly, Daniels helped Daniels.

Same w/Burreaux. Coaches can help, but you’ve got to have internal drive to be elite.