Brian Kelly - DB Extraordinaire

Submitted by boliver46 on

For all of the angst, heartache, and pain we've experienced under the current staff - I am SO glad our coaches don't routinely throw players under the bus.

Brian Kelly is a Douche.  I would never want any kid of mine to play for this a$$hole.  That is all.

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Reporter: Brian, how can you, I know they're not all on Golson, especially the picks, but the fumbles, consistently-
Kelly: Why aren't they all on Golson?

But...but...but...

Kelly interrupted to make sure Golson received the full blame for his turnovers before immediately backing down when reminded of what actually occurred (as well as things he previously said).

 

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November 9th, 2014 at 10:20 PM ^

Good to see a coach holding a player with extraordinary talent accountable when he screws up but Kelly is, has, and always will be, a ND jerk.

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yzerman19

November 9th, 2014 at 10:19 PM ^

I'd like if BTN did a whole week of ND losses.  UM and MSU could have their own days or two to themselves. 

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bj dickey

November 9th, 2014 at 10:34 PM ^

There is a tremendous difference between holding players accountable for mistakes publicly, and doing so with the team and in practice. I promise you devin is being held accountable. And Brady mentioned in his press conference after the game that he made mistakes. Of course, bk special went to another level. One that is really in poor taste in my opinion. I would never expect, or think, that an nfl coach would do what bk special did. To say that about a college kid, at a press conference, is poor judgment and inappropriate. He earns his nicknames routinely.

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bj dickey

November 9th, 2014 at 10:50 PM ^

What does accountable mean to you? I can tell you they are hammering him on footwork, decision making, etc. But at no time has Brady said publicly that he is solely responsible for a loss, and he won't, even were it true. Nor would RR, Carr, moeller, schembechler, stoops, harbaugh, Belichek, graham, Urbs, dantonio, kill. I think you get the point.

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boliver46

November 9th, 2014 at 10:54 PM ^

them accountable in private, in practice - where it belongs.  Not in the media and basically blaming your player for the loss...did you read the article?  He blamed Golson then was pointed towards the facts - bad blocking leading to a strip, etc....please help me understand how that is holding someone accountable.

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Mpfnfu Ford

November 9th, 2014 at 10:36 PM ^

I don't really have a problem with coaches telling the truth during a press conference. Golson flat out threw the game away for them against a far inferior team. I know Arizona State was ranked higher, but they looked worse than Notre Dame at everything besides, "QB's ability to avoid handing ball to other team."

Kelly wasn't unfair, is the point. He didn't foist his own failures off on a player. He held a guy accountable publicly. Jimmy Johnson did that all the time, and he's one of the greatest football coaches ever. Spurrier has done that too, and he's one of the best college coaches ever.

I'd rather have that than some mealy mouthed passive aggressive blaming of "execution" when your offense is stupid, or blaming "turnovers" for losing a game you had already lost due to poor scheme long before any turnovers happened. 

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johnthesavage

November 10th, 2014 at 12:07 AM ^

Alternately, it may be that Golson has turned it over so much, that opponents are selling out to stop the run. That would seem like a pretty good strategy, since it would force ND to have to throw the ball, with their turnover-machine quarterback.

Quarterback play in football is *insanely* important. I mean, this is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think if we had swapped QBs with Northwestern this week, we'd have won by 30 points.

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phork

November 9th, 2014 at 10:39 PM ^

So wait...  Golson has something ridiculous like 20 turnovers in the last few games...  Not exactly sure what the problem is here.  Clearly there is an issue with Golson holding on to the ball.  The INTs were one thing, tips are tips, but the balls weren't really on point either.

As football guys I am disappointed that you would bother posting drivel like this rather than look deeper at whats happening.

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bj dickey

November 9th, 2014 at 10:44 PM ^

I'm confused. Bk starts a guy who is prone to turnovers. He didnt have to. Then he rips him a new place to defecate at the press conference, amd that's ok? Sorry, man. It's not. And this kind of crap is the reason that until Nd hired him everyone else went right on by, michigan included. Unless Kelly thinks he's betting on the game and committing turnovers on purpose, he just a douche. Of course, we all knew that already.

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bj dickey

November 9th, 2014 at 11:46 PM ^

First, yes, it is generally known that bk has major issues. He ran into issues at cmu when coaching players hoe to answer police investigation, he was looked at by many schools while he was at cmu and Cincinnati. Most passed. It took Nd, which made a deal with the devil to get a winning team. HW has the off field issues been at Nd? He is a first class douche. Oh, btw, RR was still here when Nd hired bk. I wasn't suggesting we attempted to hire no from Nd.

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boliver46

November 9th, 2014 at 10:56 PM ^

Go post on a ND board.  lol

Again - please read the article.  He blamed Golson - but then was politely directed towards the likely cause of much of the problem - missed blocks, etc. 

Airing dirty laundry publicly does nothing but make you look like a DB.  Destroy him in practice and tear him down to the basics - but presenting him as the sole cause for a loss is super-DB territory.

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Mr Miggle

November 9th, 2014 at 11:33 PM ^

If he's so bad, Kelly didn't have to keep playing him. He could also try doing a better job of coaching him. Using TV as a forum to blast him isn't just classless, it's not fair. College coaches hold all the cards. What happens if Golson gives interviews criticizing the coaches or his teammates?

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GoBluePhil

November 9th, 2014 at 11:00 PM ^

But if you can't tell the truth about what you think about a player or team then this is true Wussification of America. And when are 22 year olds thought of as kids.

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Reader71

November 10th, 2014 at 9:01 AM ^

It's not that people are worried about Golston's feelings being hurt, per se. It's that it is bad coaching. The kid is already a mess about this, guaranteed. Acting like a child in the press conference is not an answer. If Kelly wants to light a fire under Golston, do it at practice. Do it in front of the team, if you feel that's the way to go. Attacking the player in the press is not a great way to improve performance or engender loyalty. There is a reason the vast majority of good coaches do not do this stuff. The stock answer, used by just about everyone, is, "It's a team game. It's not one guy." This isn't because it sounds good. It is because coaches have answered questions like these so often, they have found the optimal answer.

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Wendyk5

November 10th, 2014 at 7:15 AM ^

I think you can tell the truth to the player and the team in the team room, but I don't know if you need to tell all the tv cameras in a way that makes you seem like a self-absorbed petulant child.  He wins and that's great (and I'd rather have winning than what we have) but that doesn't really make his bullshit right.  

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Jevablue

November 9th, 2014 at 11:10 PM ^

He probably is a much better coach than Hoke. His record is certainly more consitently good than Hoke's has been.  That said, he truly is a total bag, and I am glad he is not the on-deck batter for M in 15.

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markusr2007

November 9th, 2014 at 11:24 PM ^

And yeah it's entertaining. But at least Brian Kelly can coach college football.

He won at GVSU. He won at Cincy. And he's turned around what used to be a point-and-laugh-at-them-because-they're-arrogant-past-dwellers dumpster fire of a football program at ND (look at 44-17). With NW, Louisville and at USC, 10-2 is not an unlikely outcome either.

He's as pissed off as Bo used to get when players effed up or turned the ball over repeatedly.

As for Michigan's next coach,  who's to say he won't be a tantrum throwing bottle of nitro? I'm not saying he's coming to UM, but maybe we might decide to be careful we don't say words we have to eat later on during 4-8 or 5-7 year one starts:

 

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