If anyone has any rumors to post on BTK please feel free to post them here. This going to be interesting on what everyone heres.

The more I read on Kelly the more I like... he has pretty much won everywhere he has gone (Grand Valley, Central Michigan, Cincy). Granted CMU was really the only team he had to rebuild.

 

http://gobearcats.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/kelly_brian00.html

Would be an ideal hire IMO...a hungry up-and-comer who wouldn't take running through the tunnel for granted. Nor would his players, I suspect

If he comes in as an OC fine otherwise never, ever.

If he comes in as an OC fine otherwise never, ever.

 

Care to elaborate on why SJ?

If he comes in as an OC fine otherwise never, ever.

 

Why not? I think it would be a lot better than a veteran coach who has lost their fire and passion....because passion is our #1 need right now

charlie would not be out recruiting if he was to be fired. If the AD knew a change was coming he would have put the kibosh on CW's trip and be saving those HC travel days. These are a limited commodity and a new coach will need to get out there and put in the face time with current commits and potential new ones.

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Edited March 4, 201114 yr by jon33dn

If he comes in as an OC fine otherwise never, ever.

 

SJ I respect you thoughts but, Kelly wouldn't come in at any school as OC..That would be a step down for him and I believe he is going to want to be the HC where ever he goes.

One more thing, you can bet your bottom dollar an offensive coach with fire is coming onto the staff.

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Edited March 4, 201114 yr by jon33dn

Just a few tidbits from the profile I posted

 

While many coaches lecture on the virtue of possession time, Kelly stresses up-tempo play on both sides of the ball, using each practice to make his point. Armed with his no-huddle offense and the philosophy of a defense that must play 60 minutes, the Bearcats' mentor brings a different attitude to each workout.

 

Kelly led the Lakers to five conference titles and six Division II playoff appearances in his 13 seasons at Grand Valley. The Lakers never finished lower than third in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference.

One more thing, you can bet your bottom dollar an offensive coach with fire is coming onto the staff.

 

Lord I hope so....can't handle another year of Weis/Latina/Haywood/Powlus and the joke of a job they have done with our talented but incredibly under-achieving bunch on offense. T

 

The changes on the offensive side need to be wholesale

I know I've been one of Kelly's biggest cheerleaders on here, but since we now have a thread on him, I'll tell you why I want him.

 

First, some history:

 

I was a student at Central when Kelly was hired. I was at his introductory press conference. Most detractors said two things. 1. He's a D-2 coach, now he has to make a jump and 2. CMU is so bad it will take years to get them competitive again.

 

In his first year, with a pub-beating that led to a death hanging over the head of the program and some of its best players (who were obviously recruited by the previous staff), CMU showed signs of moving forward at times, and struggled at others. In Year 2, they had their first winning season since 1998 and only the second since 1994 (this team was putrid).

 

The year after that (2006), he nearly beats Boston College despite losing his starting quarterback to a season-ending concussion, then wins the MAC and the Motor City Bowl with red-shirt freshman Dan LeFevour, who is playing miles above what anyone ever expected of him.

 

He was a candidate for the MSU and ISU jobs after that year, and when Dantonio was hired by the Spartans, he was pissed. A lot of people didnt think he was ready for prime time. So he went to Cincinnati to prove that not only was he better than Dantonio, but he was ready to coach in a BCS conference.

 

We've seen what he's done at Cinci, going 20-5 over two years and now winning the Big East in his second year.

 

Bottom line, he wins wherever he goes. He wins despite injuries (the QB situation at Cinci is ridiculous this year). He gets players to play above their talent level.

 

All this talk of "we need a proven commodity" is hilarious to me. How proven was Ara? <strike>How proven was Lou?</strike> (my bad on this second one. But I stick by the point)

 

<strike>They both</strike> He came from a smaller program after having success and became a legend.

 

Hiring another pro coach, I think, is a bad idea. Some guys are great pro coaches, others are great college coaches. There are very few in recent history that are both.

 

I wouldn't argue with hiring Nick Saban or Urban Meyer, I just think it's completely unrealistic. Both are making tons of money and with teams that are competing for national titles right now.

 

Kelly is the next rising star in the college coaching world, and I say we hitch our wagon to him and let him become the next in the line of great ND coaches.

Edited November 30, 200816 yr by Ital-Irish

Nice post, Ital-Irish.

 

He's got a chip on his shoulder when it comes to Dantonio? Another reason to hire Kelly. I'd love for our team to come out and beat on Sparty for a while!

The strike-through command doesnt work, and that bothers me/makes me look like an idiot.

Brian Kelly not enough experience we nned someone that has taken a top rpogeam from the bottom to the top (meaning contend for a national champiship, not win the big east) and at the same time can deal with the pressures of Notre Dame.

 

The guy we need right now for an interim period to restore order, manitain the momentum, rebuild the pride is Lou Holtz. He could step right in running for a three to four year period and put a succession plan in place that would last for the following decade. Help the footb all commitee bring in the next head coach have hinm work with lew to learn how to deal as the Notre Dame coach. Lou could maintain the recruiting momentum and additioanlly build on it to ever better classes this year and next.

 

He would come in and say exactly what he did toi the players on his first day as head coach the first time, "OK sit up and listen, we are done losing" and it would be done.

Brian Kelly not enough experience we nned someone that has taken a top rpogeam from the bottom to the top (meaning contend for a national champiship, not win the big east) and at the same time can deal with the pressures of Notre Dame.

 

The guy we need right now for an interim period to restore order, manitain the momentum, rebuild the pride is Lou Holtz. He could step right in running for a three to four year period and put a succession plan in place that would last for the following decade. Help the footb all commitee bring in the next head coach have hinm work with lew to learn how to deal as the Notre Dame coach. Lou could maintain the recruiting momentum and additioanlly build on it to ever better classes this year and next.

 

He would come in and say exactly what he did toi the players on his first day as head coach the first time, "OK sit up and listen, we are done losing" and it would be done.

 

 

That would pretty kool if we could get Lou to come in and coach and tutor another HC for ND. But, that is what should of happen the first time when he left..