I agree with all that. No one recruits and develops talent that the top tier of the SEC does. Everyone else is second rate. Everyone else is really playing for second place.
However, ND can be a BCS bowl contender every year. The media loves them and gives them the benefit of the doubt.
I don't know. I'm not sure Coach Stallings, Saban or Bryant was ever in a game where their players were that much inferior to the opponent. I mean, we get on Coach Kelly but did you hear the entire ESPN panel at halftime? The looks on their faces along with their comments reflected that of Brian Kelly. I personally think people watching the game on tv (rather than being there) didn't get the full effect of how physically out manned ND was. Urban point blank said, when asked what he would do in the second half, "I don't know if there's anything you can do."If im a nd player and watch the halftime interview and my coach says if the other team does not come back out we have a shot, i mean wow my coach has packed it in. Bryant would never say that, stallings ,saban, wouldnt either. Heck joe kines didnt say that kind of statement. Joke or no joke they wouldnt do it. Its not their nature. But kelley said it. It tells alittle bit about who he is. Kelley isnt a bad coach but i think monday was as close to a bcsnc that nd will get while kelley is there. He reminds me of tubbervile.
I agree.I don't know. I'm not sure Coach Stallings, Saban or Bryant was ever in a game where their players were that much inferior to the opponent. I mean, we get on Coach Kelly but did you hear the entire ESPN panel at halftime? The looks on their faces along with their comments reflected that of Brian Kelly. I personally think people watching the game on tv (rather than being there) didn't get the full effect of how physically out manned ND was. Urban point blank said, when asked what he would do in the second half, "I don't know if there's anything you can do."
I think if adjustments could be made Brian Kelly would have made them. But I think inferiority of talent was so great at too many positions to compensate with scheme. And that's what the ESPN halftime panel was saying over and over. I guess being too honest is what we could get on him for, and he should of just spewed out some cliche coach speak. But the reality of it is, those players that are coming back need to know (if they don't already) "We've got to get better. We've got to work harder." When you admit reality you can make progress.
We can relate to that prediction.They lose WAY too many seniors to make it back next year.
Orange Bowl, 1972 - #1 Nebraska 38, #2 UA 6. I flashed back to the game continually while the Irish took the beating. I and other Bama fans who watched that earlier fiasco could certainly empathize..I don't know. I'm not sure Coach Stallings, Saban or Bryant was ever in a game where their players were that much inferior to the opponent. I mean, we get on Coach Kelly but did you hear the entire ESPN panel at halftime? The looks on their faces along with their comments reflected that of Brian Kelly. I personally think people watching the game on tv (rather than being there) didn't get the full effect of how physically out manned ND was. Urban point blank said, when asked what he would do in the second half, "I don't know if there's anything you can do."
I think if adjustments could be made Brian Kelly would have made them. But I think inferiority of talent was so great at too many positions to compensate with scheme. And that's what the ESPN halftime panel was saying over and over. I guess being too honest is what we could get on him for, and he should of just spewed out some cliche coach speak. But the reality of it is, those players that are coming back need to know (if they don't already) "We've got to get better. We've got to work harder." When you admit reality you can make progress.
LSU hasn't recovered either -- in fact -- I heard that when Les got on the SEC Elevator -- the only buttons he could push were "DOWN", "WAY DOWN" and "AUBURN"Beat downs like this from Bama put you at the fork in the road, like Tx. , they havent recovered yet.
I don't mean to empathize with ND and certainly not their fans but under the circumstances they had an excellent season until Monday. Unfortunately for them they were overrated and greatly overmatched. It does harken back to our '71 season and the beating we took from Nebraska. I took that loss hard at the time but eventually was consoled some by the fact that Nebraska, Oklahoma, and maybe Colorado were just that much better than everybody else even with Bear on our sideline. The difference is that we were a dominant team in '71 wiping out our opponents even Sullivan/Beasley, unlike ND this year squeaking by weak opponents. We just weren't quite there yet with the top of the Big 8. Unfortunately we were at the very top two years later when we got upset by an inferior ND team in the Sugar Bowl. That and the fact that it was ND and Ara who did it to us after we had been voted out of the '66 NC, are what made it so hard to endure and what made Monday night SO WONDERFUL!Orange Bowl, 1972 - #1 Nebraska 38, #2 UA 6. I flashed back to the game continually while the Irish took the beating. I and other Bama fans who watched that earlier fiasco could certainly empathize..
Does it? Rivals rankings over the last five years:ND basically recruits for itself.
Well said!Comparing Kelly to the whiny little girl mack brown is unfair - Kelly is actually talented. Give him wlgmb's roster and he'd be tough to beat, imo.