41 points for ND despite just 3 rushing yards, 242 total, and 11 penalties for 93 yards... Crazy.

 

Go Irish, Kelly is now the all time Winningest coach in the history of the school!

57 minutes ago, The Flea Market said:

Go Irish, Kelly is now the all time Winningest coach in the history of the school!

More proof that Notre Dame is the most overrated and overhyped team in college football.

2 hours ago, sportsfan41 said:

Things escalated quickly.

That's certainly one way to put it. Who would have thought Notre Dame would score 41 after how bad the offense looked for three quarters? Special teams and defense won the day. The game ended on a 31-0 ND run over the last 14 minutes.

5 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

More proof that Notre Dame is the most overrated and overhyped team in college football.

How does that have any bearing on whether Notre Dame is overrated?   

2 pick sixes and a KO return for a TD helped.   If we are just taking straight offense, these 2 teams were pretty even.

14 minutes ago, Irish Cat said:

How does that have any bearing on whether Notre Dame is overrated?   

Brian Kelly is the winningest coach in their history? Has he even been there ten years?

3 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Brian Kelly is the winningest coach in their history? Has he even been there ten years?

This is his 12th season at ND.

27 minutes ago, Voice of Reason said:

Brian Kelly is the winningest coach in their history? Has he even been there ten years?

Even if he hadn't, not having a long term successful coach doesn't make it an overrated program.  Not every successful coach opts to stay at the same job for their entire career.  Does Paterno's victories prevent Penn St. from being overrated.  Southern Cal's winningest coach is only 21 victories ahead of Kelly.  Does that make the Trojans the second most overrated and overhyped team? 

Notre Dame has two other former coaches who could have easily surpassed Rockne if they had elected to stay.  Holtz was only 5 wins behind when he chose to move on and Parseghian was just 10 wins behind when he retired.  Parseghian closed out his career winning 21 games in his final two seasons, so it is very likely that he and Holtz both could have tied or surpassed Rockne's win total with just one more season.   

Kelly has also benefited due to the fact that while coaching the Irish his teams have played more games per season than any of the others mentioned above.  Rockne's teams typically placed only 9 or 10 games per year and only exceed that number once when they played 11.   Whereas Kelly's teams have played 13 games every year of his tenure but two when they played 12 games.  

All that having been said, the bar for all time coaching victories with Notre Dame football was set tragically low when Rockne on the heels of a 19 game winning steak and back to back national championships was killed in a plane crash at only 43 years of age.  Otherwise who knows how many wins he cold have achieved over the rest of his lifetime.  

 

 

 

 

14 hours ago, Walter said:

41 points for ND despite just 3 rushing yards, 242 total, and 11 penalties for 93 yards... Crazy.

 

That's because the ball has a funny shape and bounces crazily lol.

Good to see NDDS is alive and well...

7 hours ago, Irish Cat said:

Even if he hadn't, not having a long term successful coach doesn't make it an overrated program.  Not every successful coach opts to stay at the same job for their entire career.  Does Paterno's victories prevent Penn St. from being overrated.  Southern Cal's winningest coach is only 21 victories ahead of Kelly.  Does that make the Trojans the second most overrated and overhyped team? 

Notre Dame has two other former coaches who could have easily surpassed Rockne if they had elected to stay.  Holtz was only 5 wins behind when he chose to move on and Parseghian was just 10 wins behind when he retired.  Parseghian closed out his career winning 21 games in his final two seasons, so it is very likely that he and Holtz both could have tied or surpassed Rockne's win total with just one more season.   

Kelly has also benefited due to the fact that while coaching the Irish his teams have played more games per season than any of the others mentioned above.  Rockne's teams typically placed only 9 or 10 games per year and only exceed that number once when they played 11.   Whereas Kelly's teams have played 13 games every year of his tenure but two when they played 12 games.  

All that having been said, the bar for all time coaching victories with Notre Dame football was set tragically low when Rockne on the heels of a 19 game winning steak and back to back national championships was killed in a plane crash at only 43 years of age.  Otherwise who knows how many wins he cold have achieved over the rest of his lifetime.  

 

 

 

 

True. Overrated was inaccurate. Overhyped is the word that applies best to ND.