I was watching the Purdue bowl game and I think it was either after half time or at the end of the game they were interviewing the coach about the turnaround. He said the first thing they worked on before anything else was intensity, teaching the guys to just play hard.

 

Does anyone else feel like that is what is lacking more than anything in the Kelly era? I saw some intensity yesterday, the defense was coming after it. Elko has coached the D up on how to play hard, and they did great all year with the exception of Miami and Stanford, both of which were more likely a reflection of the turnovers / short field position than the actual D performance.

 

Thoughts?

Yes!

Under Kelly ND primarily fades as the season unwinds. It’s now a broken record. Now i do think scheduling needs tweaked and has something to do with it. It is beyond dumb we forgo a natural advantage of playing a cold weather night game in south bend to finish the year in a warm weather site. This is senseless. But I digress.

 

We need sustained intensity more than anything else. I think Kelly is kind of an intense guy. But I speculate That after he grabbed David grimes on the sideline vs. temple a couple years back he was told to tone it way down. To me ND lost something from this point forward. Just an observation: but I liked Kelly better when he was alittle more animated on the sidelines because that is more who he is.

They played with a great deal of intensity yesterday.

I think we get our fair share of guys that don't eat, sleep, and drink football. Our guys don't all see the nfl as their ticket to a good life so they aren't all in the way an sec kid is.

 

I can't complain much about the defense but the offense. Oh boy.

I do think it’s been missing. Watching those two games last night, man was their hitting going on. Love hearing those pads thump.