In reply to: Thde world ain't black and white posted by alleghenyirish
I get it. You don't like Kelly, and there is nothing he can do to win your favor.
1) He had a horrible 4-8 season. With that said, I think he deserves some credit for changing his stripes and looking for anything he could to do a better job (including eschewing some of the speaking engagements and fund raising efforts). And I think that Nelson would have picked up on it if the coach didn't sound sincere in his humility.
2) I agree, we lost a HUGE opportunity to compete for a national championship this year. The Miami game was a shit show, but it was something that I've seen a lot in college football. Sometimes a good team has a bad game at the worst possible time... against another good team at their very best. Miami never played a better game this year... not even close. We rode our very one dimensional offense as far as it could take us this year. Miami basically pinned their ears back and attacked both options of the read option run with little regard for the passing game. Wimbush never found his accuracy this season, and by the end, our opponents knew they could play straight man and focus on stopping Adams.
3) How did Stanford outsmart us? We turned the ball over 2 times in the span of a minute and they scored three touchdowns in the span of 3 minutes. It was 20-17 at that point. Hats off to Stanford for making big plays when they needed it. I didn't see this as a huge coaching failure. Those mistakes are hard to overcome.
Anyways, I'm ambivalent about Kelly. I think he had a nice season and most of my disappointment stems from the high hopes that I had when we sat there at 8-1 with 8 dominant wins and a 1-point loss to an excellent Georgia team... The end of the season sucked, but there was also a lot to like about this year. As far as the NC being there for the taking... I think that it was if Kizer had stayed.
crap then good for you.
Yep, Stanford had nothing to do with those turnovers. They were gifted to them. Got it. They are physically and intellectually superior to us in football.... this year and have been for some time.
Factoid: miami was not a football game. We never showed up. Does that sound familiar? Oh, but our jackass was once again making the rounds on ESPN and every other sports talk show that would have him leading up to the game. He never misses an opportunity to self promote. Then he completely flamed out again in embarrassing fashion.
If you enjoy his introspection I'd like to draw your attention to McGlinchey's meeting with him. This young man, there have been others, read kelly the riot act on our coaching prior to the purple one taking any action at all. Our coaching situation was toxic. kelly created that and let it fester. Change was then forced upon him...including his behavior...
kelly's "bless me father for I have sinned" routine to keep Nelson on the squad worked.
Our team and school deserve better than what both he and swarbrick have brought to this program.
Tell me more about his fund raising activity. Where was he? How many events did he do? That appears to be another pile of b.s.
kelly sounds like cfb's jimmy swaggart.
You are wrong about kelly "not being able to do anything to win my favor".
He can leave...that'd be a great start.
He's certainly no Jimmy Swaggart when it comes to fundraising. Then again, not many people are.
Btw, I had thought Jimmy Swaggart was dead (because I hadn't heard of him in a long, long time) until I found out that my wife's friend's husband STILL watches him.
Interesting guy....
That facility was built by deceased preacher Robert Schuller. According to the bishop it is the largest diocesan center in the world...33 acres ... one of the buildings was used for the latest Star Wars movie... command center?? Anyway, the place is beautiful. The organ is undergoing a 4 million + restoration in Italy.
He told me it was the 4th biggest organ in the world. (Talk about a lay up).
I was so close to refuting his contention in legendary fashion and the thought of confession almost sold me. "You said what to the Bishop?" Could have been fun...