The Blue Board

Petrino

Coaching and program...As a Wisconsin fan I know Notre Dame gets "better" kids than Wisconsin on average. However, since 2008, ie kids Weis either recruited or developed, 10 were drafted from Notre Dame. Wisconsin had 15. The difference is not their talent when they were 17, it's bad coaching/development. A few studs and hard workers will succeed despite bad coaching, but collage coaches do need to have a program, both on and off the field, of developing players. A culture in which the juniors tell the freshmen that they need to work because that's what makes a winner. That sort of thing.

You need a football culture and good coaches. Maybe Kelly is the guy, it's a the third year so sign should start this year.

mr funny man nice. Nice. Nice had to say it tripletime.

Say what you want about Hoke he's got the job done. I know it's hard to admit, but ND hasn't seen that level of success in a long time on the field, or in recruiting.

You need to find a guy who loves ND, knows what it stands for and sells that well. Fitzgerald has been a great hire for NW, Dantonio for MSU. All these guys don't have the egos and are in it for the kids as opposed to themselves.

Kelly doesn't care about ND, he cares about his reputation and thought ND would be a good platform for him. ND is a sleeping giant, get someone in there who is blue collared loves the school and they will go to work IMO.

Don't slap a girl, lol.

Harbaugh is doing just fine in the NFL, but he would have been perfect at Notre Dame. I thought he burned his bridges at Michigan? No?

Some Michigan fans like to convince themselves of that, at the end of the day I'm darn sure if he was hired Michigan fans would go nuts (in happiness). He made a totally ridiculous and hypocritical comment about Michigan academics, but fans would get over it.

I think Michigan fans say he burned the bridges just to ease the sting of him turning us down. I dunno what the deal was 2 years ago, but there was some smoke he and our AD had a handshake agreement from after tOSU game he would be coach. Then he blew up, and we had no shot.

Harbaugh still idolizes Bo, and uses a lot of his phrases etc. for his teams. If he comes back to college if the timing is right he will be at Michigan. I think that ship has sailed though, he's an amazing coach I don't think he ever leaves the NFL.

C'mon man! Cooper had some damn good teams ie. 95 & 98

Saban would be a disaster at ND. He could never run the ND program the way he runs the Alabama program. That's not a knock on Alabama, it's just a fact. But naming a specific coach who would be succesful at ND wasn't my point. My point was that ND needs to find the right fit. Michigan found that out the hard way when we hired RR. You can't just pluck a successful coach from one program and drop him into any other and expect the same results. It has to be the right fit.

Kelly was a very good fit for GVSU and Cincy but he's a bad fit for ND. Pat Fitzgerald is perfect for NW. Harbaugh was perfect for Stanford. Tressel was perfect for OSU. Holtz was perfect for ND. And Hoke is perfect for UM. Frankly, I think Alvarez or Barnett would have been perfect replacements for Holtz, but you went with Davie and then Willingham instead. IMO that's when you got off track. Urban Meyer might have worked out, but we'll never know because he went to UF and now OSU. And if you could ever get Pat Fitzgerald to leave NW (which I doubt, btw), I believe he would be perfect for ND. IMO Brian Kelly is simply a bad fit.

Notre Dame running a spread is just wrong. Just like seeing names on the backs of their jerseys last year in their bowl game. I can't think of a particular ND coach atm, but I know it's not Kelly. They need to get their act together and become relevant. I wonder if Mike Singletary would be interested in coaching college, though not necessarily ND.

^^^^ 100% THIS ^^^^

They're already an afterthought, but it's not because they're not in a BCS conference. It's mainly coaching incompetence, tough scheduling, and stricter policies. The Domers will be all right when they get their HC.

Oregon and Stanford are not our rivals, nor will they ever be...just opponents like the other pac programs that flow in and out of relevance.

It is time for them to step it up, if not for anything else but to shut you people up.