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re: Notre Dame Fans saying Brian Kelly could “never have this type of playoff success at ND”….
Posted by MarcusFreeman on 1/12/25 at 11:23 am to Sponge
Please go find me signature wins you fricking dumbass
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re: Notre Dame Fans saying Brian Kelly could “never have this type of playoff success at ND”….
Posted by MarcusFreeman on 1/12/25 at 10:09 am to Sponge
lol BK did not take ND to “heights and consistency” they haven’t experienced since the 70’s.
Some of you are out of your god damned mind.
Most ND fans admit that he got ND back to a respectable second tier team. 2017-2021 was a decent run.
He just couldn’t win big games and that’s just a fact. Even in 2021, his final year at ND, lost to Cincinnati, at home. Yes Cincinnati was a top 10 team that made the playoffs, but it’s still a team ND should beat.
Not being able to win big games sounds like trouble being a head coach in the SEC
Some of you are out of your god damned mind.
Most ND fans admit that he got ND back to a respectable second tier team. 2017-2021 was a decent run.
He just couldn’t win big games and that’s just a fact. Even in 2021, his final year at ND, lost to Cincinnati, at home. Yes Cincinnati was a top 10 team that made the playoffs, but it’s still a team ND should beat.
Not being able to win big games sounds like trouble being a head coach in the SEC
re: Notre Dame Fans saying Brian Kelly could “never have this type of playoff success at ND”….
Posted by MarcusFreeman on 1/11/25 at 10:39 pm to LSUbacchus81
Notre Dame fan here.
Here’s my thoughts:
The Sugar Bowl win against Georgia was the most significant win for ND since 1993. I get it, that wasn’t the best Georgia team ever but they were still SEC champions, it was a playoff game, and the first major bowl victory since ‘93. Kelly just didn’t have a win against a team like Georgia that has been a perennial contender the last few years. I’ve seen many mention the teams Kelly lost to in the playoffs and BCS championship like Bama and Clemson and yes those teams were far superior talent wise to ND. No doubt.
But some other marquee games that would have been big, signature wins, he just couldn’t get it done. For example:
2014 - lost to FSU
2015 - lost to Clemson
2017 - lost to Georgia
2019 - lost to Georgia
The loss to Clemson and that first loss to Georgia was when those teams were just getting into being championship contenders. And at the time, neither of them were in the Top 10 although they did end up in the top 10 by the end of the year.
Did beat Clemson in reg season in 2020 but Lawrence was on the bench with covid and they started DJ Uiagalalei who was a freshman and he actually torched us. When we rematched in the ACC championship with Lawrence we got blown out.
Kellys big wins were against average Michigan teams, and Stanford who had some good teams and were top 10 occasionally but no one considers beating Stanford a huge, signature win. But for actual marquee matchups, we came close but just couldn’t get the W. And the last couple years NBC would show Kelly giving a pregame speech to the team and even before a big game he’d just say the same stupid shite “let’s go out there and play sound, fundamental, Notre Dame football.” It’s easy to see Freeman’s teams come out ready to kill in big games.
So anyways, yes Kelly did get ND back to a somewhat respectable program but couldn’t get us over the hump and beating a team like Georgia. With Freeman, the feeling now is that we can beat top teams now.
Here’s my thoughts:
The Sugar Bowl win against Georgia was the most significant win for ND since 1993. I get it, that wasn’t the best Georgia team ever but they were still SEC champions, it was a playoff game, and the first major bowl victory since ‘93. Kelly just didn’t have a win against a team like Georgia that has been a perennial contender the last few years. I’ve seen many mention the teams Kelly lost to in the playoffs and BCS championship like Bama and Clemson and yes those teams were far superior talent wise to ND. No doubt.
But some other marquee games that would have been big, signature wins, he just couldn’t get it done. For example:
2014 - lost to FSU
2015 - lost to Clemson
2017 - lost to Georgia
2019 - lost to Georgia
The loss to Clemson and that first loss to Georgia was when those teams were just getting into being championship contenders. And at the time, neither of them were in the Top 10 although they did end up in the top 10 by the end of the year.
Did beat Clemson in reg season in 2020 but Lawrence was on the bench with covid and they started DJ Uiagalalei who was a freshman and he actually torched us. When we rematched in the ACC championship with Lawrence we got blown out.
Kellys big wins were against average Michigan teams, and Stanford who had some good teams and were top 10 occasionally but no one considers beating Stanford a huge, signature win. But for actual marquee matchups, we came close but just couldn’t get the W. And the last couple years NBC would show Kelly giving a pregame speech to the team and even before a big game he’d just say the same stupid shite “let’s go out there and play sound, fundamental, Notre Dame football.” It’s easy to see Freeman’s teams come out ready to kill in big games.
So anyways, yes Kelly did get ND back to a somewhat respectable program but couldn’t get us over the hump and beating a team like Georgia. With Freeman, the feeling now is that we can beat top teams now.
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