re: How highly did you regard BK as coach at ND?

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How highly did you regard BK as coach at ND?

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I didn't think about him, but did consider him a good coach.

He's had Notre Dame consistently with 10+ win seasons. Despite the occasional "we're glad he's gone" ND posters here, I think that's a solid standard. People bitched here about Miles "only" winning 10 games a year, they bitched about Fulmer at Tennessee, Solich at Nebraska, etc. You look at Tennessee and Nebraska now, you come to understand how easy it is to drop off the map.

Notre Dame played a D1 schedule, they alway had a couple Big 10 and Pac 12 teams, and have added a ton of ACC games. You can mock them as not-elite, but they could just as easily have started disappearing. Florida State and Miami were also fixtures in the Top 10, until they weren't.

I never considered Kelly as a replacement at LSU, the same way I didn't think of Dabo, Riley, the Ohio State coach, etc. These guys are/were already at a place where they could win, no reason to move. And with Kelly being an older guy, I really didn't expect him to move. Jimbo leaving Fla State was big, but he was in trouble there. Kelly was solid at ND.

I think it's a great hire.