re: Perspective on BK from recent ND alum

Well I think other schools have academic standards for football players lol but yeah even still ND is kind of an oddball in athletic programs. All athletes, football players included, have to live in the dorms rooming with non-athletes for at least 2-3 years (tho most fb players move off campus somewhat against the rules by their sophomore or junior year).

For example, Ian Book once stopped by my jazz band nerd friends pregame cuz he lived just down the hall haha and Bo Bauer could tell when a new transfer student moved into the dorm halfway through the year because he didn't recognize him. Current linebacker Nolan Ziegler in his first semester decorated my dorms lounge with rubber duckies just cuz and then sheepishly denied it when hall staff was just curiously wondering who did it. Not really related to BK at all, but some fun stories demonstrating your point

Every team will have it's own identity. It'll be different from school to school, year to year. Sure 2019 had the swagger and backed it up. After that, it was starting to go down the drain. UGA and Bama aren't like that. In the NIL Era, I'll take the business and professionalism culture.

Hmm…an interesting point.

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It's having watched every single Brian Kelly big game blowout in the last 6 years,

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Just curious…vs Alabama not big game last year? Vs then #7 undefeated Ole Miss not a big game then - I know Ole Miss was overrated but sure as hell felt like a big game that week.

I think Kelly was awful in game 1, but selective memory on big games doesn’t help your point.

The reason he left Nd was to get away from the ND culture

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2022: 10-4 2021: 6-7 2020: 5-5 2019: 15-0 2018: 10-3 2017: 9-4 2016: 8-4 2015: 9-3 2014: 8-5 2013: 10-3 2012: 10-3 2011: 11-1 2010: 11-2 2009: 9-4 2008: 8-5 2007: 12-2 2006: 11-2 2005: 11-2: 2004: 9-3: 2003: 13-1

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LSU had two .500 or below seasons during that timeframe. Same timeframe, ND had 5, playing in something other than the SEC.

Those two bad seasons, we know why, Kelly is trying to clean up a mess left by the previous staff.

Much of ND’s problems are self inflicted.

Yall are over analyzing. The reasons we got whipped were:

1. BK was lazy/distracted over the summer and didn't prepare properly.
2. O ran the program into the ground and it's going to take a long time to fix it. Kelly hit with the transfers last year, but it appears as he whiffed this year.
3. Kelly tied himself to JD and JD is a good runner but a bad QB
4. The team quit in the 4th quarter because there's no leaders and Kelly was standing on the sideline looking like somebody that just got punched in the face instead of rallying the troops.

Our athletes are no different than ND athetes and quit trying to act like ND athletes are smarter. That's weak. I guarantee you ND athletes get "special academic help"

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BK was lazy/distracted over the summer and didn't prepare properly.

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Can you elaborate on this?

Also OP as you mentioned you’re on the younger side, I definitely agree what BK is doing is a major departure from the Les/O eras, but that’s all it is. What do you think it was like here under Saban?

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Are you racist?

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i'm racist, according to the mainstream media and Joe Biden who is also a racist.

if you have a problem with that, you're the racist.