Brian Kelly speaks, South Bend Torch and Pitchfork profits.

Crist was a 5-star QB recruit.  Ryan Mallett is a much better comparison.  If you can imagine our 2008 team with Mallett, Manningham, Arrington and Boren back, that might be a better analogy.

Crist was a 5-star QB recruit.  Ryan Mallett is a much better comparison.  If you can imagine our 2008 team with Mallett, Manningham, Arrington and Boren back, that might be a better analogy.

Of the sophomores, juniors, and seniors (basically the guys who should be making up your team) on offense in RR's first year, zero have been drafted the last two years and only one has a shot to get drafted this year (Schilling).  It should be no surprise that group struggled on offense.  The problem wasn't that Rodriguez didn't have "his guys" but rather that we had "no guys." 

If Kelly's offense can't put up 26 points a game with Crist (a 5-star recruit in his third year at ND with prior game experience), Rudolph (junior, the only returning Mackey Award semi-finalist, with over 700 career receiving yards prior to this season), Allen (senior with 3,683 all purpose yards in his career prior to this season), Floyd (junior with over 1,500 receiving yards coming into this season) and a boatload of blue chip o-line recruits, then what is it going to take to make it happen?  Not to mention he's been prepping for Navy since the season began and somehow managed to get completely blown out of the water.  The jury may still be out on Kelly but there is enough evidence so far to suggest it is at least possible that he isn't the guy to turn that program around.

Just passing along something that I read that I haven't seen posted...

In the September 26th Chicago Tribune Sports Section, pg. 4, in a column entitled "These brains have brawn too", David Haugh writes:

"Also understand that, based on what three straight Irish loses have exposed, depth and ralent appear to be in as short of supply at Notre Dame as patience.  I'm not saying Weis left the cupboard totally bare, but they're out of meat, potatoes, bread and milk at The Gug."

Best part: both guys were class acts at Cincy... it's the nature of the beast.

It's Kelly trying to keep his team 'up' and force them to focus on the next game.  And pretty much anywhere else, that would be understood.  But here at Notre Dame, declaring the Tulsa game to be bigger than USC (and Utah, for that matter) does not go over especially well.

I can tell you that the honeymoon period is officially over, at least from the fans I have sampled.  They felt that the team was VERY unprepared on Saturday.

And I thought I was the only one to own Clerks - The Animated Series on DVD

You should see his feet.

Remember when he got crushed on the sideline and ended up in the cast? I heard that while at the hospital they wouldn't give him seconds of his lunch. After a while the hunger got the better of him and he began to hallucinate and instead of fingers he was seeing bratwurst. It was fortunate he only lost two.

Actually, he accidentally ate them after they got lost in the Jelly Doughnut he was working on. 

to stop staring at his face!

Have you seen Hammond in HD? He wears more makeup than Tammy Faye Baker did.