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Indiana 16 passes 47 rushes 38-3
then they sit Mendoza
the transfer portal leveled the playing field…
Indiana is playing Fundamentally Sound Disciplined football… they’re a “team”
This bodes well for LSU’s future if Kiffin can keep his head straight… he better be taking notes..

I guess Trace Armstrong’s “NFL teams are interested in kelly” ruse won’t be rolled out this go round.

His father set the “wandering” tone… with well over a dozen career stops.
imo kiffin will pivot off big LSU success to the NFL. He’ll have “made it”.
He’s at his college peak right now and has the opportunity of a lifetime. The lure of the NFL will fulfill his ego and continue the coaching gypsy lifestyle he’s accustomed to…
If he takes another college job, it’s because he failed at LSU.

They put the first nail in kelly’s coffin…

NFL HC aspirations…

Be thrilled that he’s gone… it’s onward and upward from here.

Adding to your details, is my thank you letter to the LSU student paper sports editor when his hire was announced. He’s an insufferable ahole. Not included in my note is his charity’s dismal performance while in SB…

“Hi Joe, I’m writing to you and LSU to say thank you very much for hiring Brian Kelly. Somewhat lost, in the fan base euphoria I’ve witnessed from LSU, are some very relevant facts. First off, kelly is not the winningest coach in Notre Dame history. Also, in order to reach Knute Rockne’s winning percentage kelly would have had to win his next 200+ games in a row. That’s not a typo.  (Plus, that’s giving him the benefit of 21 NCAA vacated wins.)  In addition, if you go to the NCAA website you can find the Public Infractions Report (PIR) where the NCAA specifically prohibits using vacated wins for coaching milestones. I’ll send you the report if you have difficulty finding it.  His win total is 21 lower.  He did not eclipse Rockne’s wins in any ethical NCAA approved capacity.…. However, 5 years ago kelly did gain the mantle of Notre Dame’s “losingest” coach in school history.  He’ll most likely carry that through eternity.  Not only was kelly pummeled by the NCAA in 2016, he’s currently on probation for recruiting violations through January 2022. 
At LSU you measure success by National Championships, Heismans…..  Notre Dame does the same.  The biggest post season bowl win in kelly’s lackluster career is the Citrus? Music? Sun? Camping? (The Pinstripe was vacated and the trophy may not be displayed). It’s hardly a worthy resume’.  Under the brightest lights he wilts. 
You are going to experience an underachieving, self promoting, narcissistic egomaniac the likes of which you’ve never seen.  He’ll be throwing players under the bus as soon as the road gets bumpy.  He’s a money grabbing mercenary.  The king’s ransom you’ve paid was better off given to the likes of Bernie Madoff.  There’s more, but I hope you get the gist. I’m writing this as fair warning and a sincere thank you. 
Hallelujah he’s gone.
PS I didn’t know how he’d gum up his intro, but the phony accent exceeded all expectations.”  

He also has claimed to be a varsity athlete. He played for a football “club” team at Assumption.
PS In fairness, he may have played women’s varsity softball in HS.

imo The guy you want is HC Richard Pitino, New Mexico. You then by default capture his father’s and Donovan’s ongoing wisdom.
He understands “team”, fast break offense, full court pressure…as well as anyone.

There’s been some real bad ones.
I was responding to this question:

“How much have yall struggled with non power 5 teams under Freeman?”

“And he still hasn't done anything that Coach BK hasn't done.”

That’s simply not true…

He hasn’t faked an accent.
He hasn’t been nailed multiple times by the NCAA.
Round 1: He hasn’t had wins vacated. (I’ll not bore you with the full penalty list in the NCAA Public Infractions report.). Round 2: He hasn’t been penalized by the NCAA for recruiting violations.
He hasn’t ditched an undefeated team heading to the Sugar Bowl….
He hasn’t lost all his major post season Bowls. Kelly 0 (Kelly in 4th decade as HC, Freeman’s won 2 in 3 years as a HC)
Kelly is batting 0.000 in them for his entire career. (Had he stuck around for the Cinci Sugar Bowl he would have been walloped by FL there too.).
He hasn’t lost 8 games in a season.
He hasn’t put a kid in a scissor lift to film practice during a “dangerous wind advisory” resulting in the student’s death. (The grace of that student’s family spared massive legal trouble for him/others.)
He hasn’t had people falling asleep at the Cinci DMV during his motivational segment. (On YouTube very funny)
He hasn’t made racist remarks about his players. (See CMU).
He hasn’t claimed to have played LB in college only to be found out it was club ball. (That’s a funny wiki edit).
He hasn’t finished 3-5 in the MAC. In year 12 at ND, 2021, he did author a fabulous home opener come from behind win vs Toledo. ND was #8 and squeaked by 32-29… with 1:09 to play and ND trailing 29-24 Coan hit Mayer for an 18 yd TD taking a 30-29 lead, This sent the crowd into a goal post tear down frenzy (jk) and then ND converted the 2 pointer … riveting…
There’s more, but that’s off the top of my head…

LSU’s talent base, may overcome kelly and win a NC over time. However, his departure from ND coincided with a major change to the college football landscape.

The portal/NIL has leveled the playing field. It was 4 months young when Kelly departed. With that and the 12 team playoff, Alabama type domination may be a thing of the past and parity could be the new normal. So, what factors will set teams apart? Coaching’s a big one. To date Kelly can’t handle the post season crucible. Now it’s deeper. He’s already moved the LSU three year goalpost… the good news is that he’s feeling serious heat and will really buckle down now. I think he knows that if he misses the playoff's it will get white hot. I have a feeling that the LSU AD/hierarchy will not be as lax as ND’s…

There’s some really good football minds here. Great school, program and fan base…
PS The LSU Med school is top shelf. I’m heading to the Mater Dei, CA Nike Extravaganza tonight with a grad… Stanford to LSU…

Plus, he left Freeman a program still on a year of NCAA probation for recruiting violations…

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Over 12 years ND bent over backwards for Kelly. He left 4 months into the NIL era. He was never denied anything. Over 1/2 a billion was sunk into the program in facility upgrades. The grass field was torn out as he preferred field turf. Jumbotron, fire, smoke machines, all on his wishlist… private jets for recruiting… lots more. He in turn got caught up in multiple NCAA scandals. I’m not going to go down his list of losses…
Saying he was denied anything isn’t true. Nor is saying ND lowered its academic standards for Freeman. As pointed out Kelly bolted 4 months into the NIL frontier. It’s been a new experience for every program since. More teams are playoff bound, more teams will be competitive as talent spreads across programs, depth may be more difficult to maintain…
Everyone recognized that Freeman had no head coaching experience. I’m guessing that many HCs stumbled early in their HC careers. His learning curve looks like a hockey stick. He’s not afraid to reach out to former excellent HCs. He has established close working relationships with them (among them Dungy). His decency represents ND very well. The NIU loss was brutal and Freeman was able to get the team to respond positively to it.
Kelly had many years of HC experience when he arrived at ND. In year one he lost to Navy and at home to Tulsa back to back. In year 2 he lost the home opener to South Florida. His in game ongoing unhinged behavior during that game made national news.

In ‘12 and ‘18, Kelly finished #4 and #5 in the Final AP. Freeman just finished #2.

Kelly has access to a ton of talent. NIL was in a 4 month infancy when he left ND. That and the portal are still very “young”. It’s looking more and more like parity will be the new norm. My guess is that as time goes by more 2nd and 3rd string talent will seek playing time elsewhere, especially if they have professional aspirations. It seems that the “haves” “stockpiling” of talent is going to be more difficult.
The new playoff structure skews wildly away from past “perfection”. There are now more ways and opportunities to win the NC.
Can Kelly navigate college football’s new world order? He was able to pull a generational talent from ASU. The Jayden Daniels LSU teams lost 4 and 3 games. Those teams won the Citrus and Reliaquest Bowls.
If you told me pre season that an LSU QB would win the Heisman I’d immediately think that they were in the NC hunt and favored. To date Kelly’s on field results don’t match LSU’s stellar legacy.
Kelly knows he’s asked for an LSU 4th year mulligan after his year 3 spiel. He needs a deep run next year or the new coach drumbeat will grow louder..:

Tulsa, South Florida, and Kelly’s former team Cincinnati all came into South Bend and beat his brains in.