re: What could Coach Kelly say today in the press conference to change your opinion?

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I would want him to take ownership of the failure that he put on the field.

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He has taken responsibility plenty of times and every time he's been blasted for it. The "we have to coach better" responses he's said numerous times.

For me I need to hear that Sloane has been stripped of his playcalling duties.

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Look. It’s all on me. No more excuses.
No more physical domination.
No more mental mistakes.
I’m taking over offensive play calls.
Defense needs to learn how to tackle

And lastly, I’m sorry. I should have prepared us better in the offseason and before games. It’s on me.

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THIS

EVERYBODY IS HEALTHY for next Saturday.

Absolutely nothing! He is done in my book

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Words are empty unless actual change is made. You can only say "put it on me - we're working on it" so many times before people check out. That's called accountability.

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So, you agree with me. There's nothing that can be said to change your opinion.

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If he came out and took full ownership (he has) the fans would just turn his words around on him.

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He has never taken full ownership. Stop claiming coach speak is taking full ownership. Until he admits the he never should have promoted an unqualified dunce to be his OC just to please a recruit that said OC couldn't even get to campus, then he is taking partial ownership maybe.

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So, you agree with me. There's nothing that can be said to change your opinion.

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Of BK? No. He clearly has no idea how to fix it. Not sure why you're attacking the fanbase for not accepting his empty excuses though.

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Of BK? No. He clearly has no idea how to fix it. Not sure why you're attacking the fanbase for not accepting his empty excuses though.

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I wasn't attacking the fanbase.

It's pure reality what I said. There's absolutely NOTHING Kelly could say to change the opinion of the fanbase.

This isn't a defense of Kelly.

I could attack our fanbase. It's not the most knowledgeable or reasonable group. But, that's not the issue here. Kelly is at the prove it stage of his tenure. The fanbase isn't going to listen to anything he says. And, he made a couple of major mistakes with his words this year that are going to make things harder. The fanbase certainly isn't reasonable, but that isn't the problem.

After the Florida game, he shouldn't have been trying to paint a picture of a great football team. That's counter productive to what he's trying to accomplish. And, it set this team up for the fall that inevitablly has come.

Instead, he should have said, "the fans are rightfully concerned. If we don't figure out how to solve some of these offensive problems, we are going to be looking at a very different position than we currently are in. Everyone wants to assume we are a playoff team. I can tell you right now that we will not be a playoff team unless everyone in this program commits itself to working and being better and evolving into that team."

It would have lit a fire under the team. It would have lit a fire under his staff. And, frankly, it would have set expectations for the fanbase that were reflective of reality...rather than saying we are good enough.

A lot of things don't work when your OL can't pass protect. A lot of other things don't work when your OL can't run block. When you struggle at both, nothing works consistently. Putting together a string of 8-10 positive plays in a row is very difficult.

Every resource available, and any potential disaster emergency fixes should have been put into motion after the Florida game (at the latest). Instead, nothing happened. Now things are worse, and it's too late to change anything that will impact the year, IMO.

Add to that a defense that has gone from "dominant" to "struggles to get a single stop against Vandy"...and you have a team that really may struggle to win any SEC games.