The story of Brian Kelly at Notre Dame is one of steady improvement. His success wasn't instant, with close-game struggles and a 4-5 start in Year 1 and the most frustrating possible 0-2 start in Year 2. There were dramatic swings here and there - the breakthrough in 2012 few saw coming, and the collapse [...]
Well, that escalated quickly. Late this afternoon reports surfaced that LSU was targeting Brian Kelly as their next head coach, with athletic director Scott Woodward likely to make some type of godfather offer. While the details haven't emerged, it appears he found an offer that Kelly couldn't refuse. Sources: LSU is expecting to hire Notre [...]
After a decade on the job I understand how anyone would be interested in plotting the course ahead in the Notre Dame football post-Brian Kelly world. In fact, I'm as guilty as anyone. Even among the cooler heads it's been a rocky road for the current Irish coach who faced a mountain of scrutiny in [...]
Sometimes I will spend 90 minutes researching some obscure but fascinating stat that most people will skip over when reading an article. It adds ridiculous amounts of time to even the shortest articles. However, nothing I've done over the years took the drawn-out process of thinking more than the "Unofficial Guide to Rebuilding Notre Dame" [...]
Thursday at Noon the Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly assembled with the media for the official opening of fall camp 2018. By the time you read this the team will already have arrived at Culver Academies just 43 miles south of campus for the beginning of practices. For reference, the media will have full [...]
"If you could change the outcome of one single game, which would you choose?" That social media debate - which crossed sports, fan bases, and continents - is a fascinating one for Notre Dame fans to consider. If we set narrow parameters for football only (with a shout-out to the '15 Kentucky Elite 8 game) [...]
You woke up today and never knew you'd read a post like this presented here now. You couldn't imagine this would be something worth reading. Folks, it's the off-season. As someone with a keen interest in everything that fills the bookstore I was this close to putting together a piece on Brian Kelly's best sideline [...]
As fall practice begins, it’s getting closer and closer to prediction time for all of your favorite writers. And for Notre Dame in 2017, that means that every one-line prognostication will devote a few words to Brian Kelly’s future. “Notre Dame: 9-3 with an improved defense under Mike Elko, cooling Brian Kelly’s hot seat.” Or [...]
"I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man who...got to push the re-start button." Last week Brendan reviewed the South Bend Tribune's annual ND Insider football magazine and on Sunday long-time beat reporter Eric Hansen unveiled his super in-depth look into a day in the life with Brian Kelly that is in [...]
Not too long ago I was reading one of our 18 Stripes Slack conversations on the criticism of Brian Kelly and it dawned on me, “Oh, my goodness we’re almost word for word repeating the same comments we made about Charlie Weis.” Ever since then I’ve been poking around the internet trying to evaluate just [...]
It's about that time for some deep thoughts on the future of Notre Dame football. Ideally, I wanted to wait until the end of the season but I'm going to catch that wave right now and ride it for a while. I was going to title this article, "Just Make the Right Hire" but I [...]
Things have gone so poorly in 2016 that troubling comparisons are starting to be made. The ironic (or is it sad?) part during times like these is that as awful as the play on the field is that message boards everywhere duplicate that atmosphere in their communities. When things get ugly most aren't really comfortable [...]
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