re: Seriously…your opinion on why Kelly didn’t work out.

Rumors of drinking issues
Not recruiting actively
Relied too heavily on portal
Indignant demeanor
Inability to see that Sloan was not ready to be OC

1) Coaching at ND is very different from coaching a P conference or more specifically an SEC team. At ND you play 3-4 ranked teams per year the rest of the games are against mediocre teams. Gives you the opportunity to jump out ahead most games and rest then begin resting your starters so have less injuries down the road.

2) In the SEC as well as the other P conferences a number of the games against untrained opponents are rivalry games which boosts the competition level. Not generally the case with an independent.

BK’s tenure at ND failed to prepare him for 1 & 2.

3) Early on BK stated he was against using the portal. But all one has to do is tune into any game and within 10-15 minutes they’ll hear the broadcast team talking about one of the playmakers for that particular game having training this season for somewhere. The portal is an integral part of college football whether we like or not. If a team is going to be successful the HC better know how to maximize the portal and have donors lined up to support his decisions.

4) When given the backing to move mountains in the portal you better damn well be capable of using them effectively. BK was pretty given everything including the kitchen sink for the portal this past off season. We know what those retrace been.

5) it’s unrealistic to believe the HC can run every single aspect of the game personally. So the HC needs a top quality staff who are great at managing whatever aspect of the game that is their responsibility. Talent is not the problem. LSU doesn’t hand out jerseys to journeymen players. If they can’t get it done then the plan sucked.

6) It took 3.5 seasons for BK to realize it wasn’t the players fault. Unfortunately the decision maker’s patience ended before he had that epiphany.

1) Hubris. He's chock full of it.

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Rumors of drinking issues

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Starting to wonder about this one. Dude definitely seemed shite housed strolling up to the ops building Sunday

Bad hires and didnt step in when things got bad, too hands off.

Wrong S&C coach and his Ego on the offense he didnt wanna let ot go.

Yeah I’d be surprised if he takes another job, I think he’s headed for media.

Which he wouldn’t be mad at, he’s actually very good at talking football when it’s not a post game presser where he’s acting like an a-hole defending the indefensible

I think he was probably burned out before he ever set foot on LSU‘s campus.

The job at Notre Dame requires an intense amount of national recruiting, which means getting on a plane constantly and flying all over the country.

I think he believed that if he hired good assistants and ran the program like a CEO, he could have continued the success in his career with less work and less drain on himself personally. What he discovered was the opposite. Competing in the SEC is a 24-7-365 proposition for a head coach and I just don’t think he had it in him anymore.

when you consider, he is a 30+ year head coach who is accustomed to recruiting young men and developing them for four years, in this new world you have to re-recruit your own players. Kelly is obviously not a people person and that was a tall order for him to maintain roster continuity. So his assistant coaches were everything. And he made some really bad choices.

His political decision to go with #18 as his QB.

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I think he was probably burned out before he ever set foot on LSU‘s campus

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Probably burned out but didn’t fully know it. Early on, he did seem determined to show everyone this was BK 2.0 and he was highly motivated to get that ring.

I don’t think he took the job as a cash grab initially.

I also believe his plan was to lean heavily on Polian as his personnel guy but then was forced to fire him because he sucked.