What a stupid comment. 😂 Kelly took over a program that had less than 50 scholarship players on the roster. It takes time. He's gonna win 10 games in each of his first 2 seasons, including an SEC West title and a Heisman trophy winner and the number one offense in the country. His 2025 recruiting class is already shaping up to be a top 5 class, possibly the top class. LSU is headed in the right direction.
Give it some time is right! Notre Dame is recruiting better than ever and guess what happened when ND faced Ohio State? They didn’t get blown out like they always did w/Kelly while LSU is getting their doors blown off when playing tier1 teams. Also, ND actually looked on par, athletically, w/Ohio State. ND is on the rise and Freeman is clearly shaking off the training wheels as far as game management, and Kelly is doing what Kelly does. Good but NEVER great!
@@tommycholewinski786 cap I ain’t herd one fan base cheer Kelly got hired, I have herd a bunch of mediocre notes dame fans cry and everyone else hatting on him saying he can’t recruit or compete.
@@ramboeastwood1522 Well he didn't Coach y'all Bowl game did he, how did that go. Y'all better get used to those results and stop worrying about a Coach who left you.
This guy needs to stop letting his feelings get in the way of reality. You can roll out of bed in Louisiana and get anyone you want. If Ed O can win it anyone can.
This guy knows what he is talking about . He has been saying this for years . It’s not sour grapes . Kelly is a 10 win coach . The players at ND get more credit for doing what they did despite Kelly . He was never around the team . He made terrible hires , which is one thing . Then he refused to get rid of them when he should have . Had a dozen WR left the program because of the position coach . If you knew anything about ND you would be agreeing with the guy . Kelly ran the oline coach out of town , and hired a bum . Kelly left , and one of the best oline coaches in the country came back a few weeks after he left .
Update: LSU which usually finishes with a top 10 recruiting class now has a 4th ranked in the nation under BK...also a 3rd ranked recruiting class for 2025 currently.
@@irishtrending So he has been a dummy for a long time and you feel the same way so you are defending him. The whole world sees Brian Kelly for the good Coach that he is but y'all have a different take, okay. Let's just see what he does with LSU and what Marcus Freeman does with Notre Dame and talk at a later date.
@@zannieholmes8555 i never said he was a bad coach 😭💀 driskell doesn’t like him bc he didn’t do what it took to get over the hump, what are u talking about
@@irishtrending He also said that he is not the Coach that he used to be and he is implying that he is a bad Coach. Speak for yourself and let him talk for himself because I know what he said. I am responding to him, you put yourself in this.
I don’t get the fit part, football is play the same around the country. Just because you coached mainly in the north, doesn’t mean you can’t coach in the south. He acting like he’s a former football coach from China. SMH.
@@Michael-jw6et if not then Explain? Fundamentally, There only 11 players per team on the field at one time, same rules, clock and etc. Now, passion and lifestyle per region is different but that’s has nothing to do with pure football.
@@jeremiahhardel2646 you think every city in the country is the same ? You think what your school offers to kids is the same every where ? No 2 games are ever the same with the same players what are you talking about ?
Fit ! Like bootie dancing with recruits ! Even Kelly knows he doesn’t fit otherwise he wouldn’t be doing that shit , or trying to speak with a fake southern accent .
@@guineapigclips5205 envy is ugly. ND is currently ahead of LSU in recruiting by 1% point on 24/7 composite. 2023 is a long way from over. When is the last time ND won a national championship? LSU has 3 or 4 since 2000. The last 2 coaches LSU had were mediocre at best, had no previous tenure of success and yet both won national championships. BK has been successful at every one of his coaching tenures and now sits at the helm of LSU.
@@guineapigclips5205 it’s a long way to NSD and they are damn close coming off of a…6 win season lol. It’s his first year recruiting here too. NO and BR are top 5 cities for NFL talent in the US per capita. Ur delusional. Not to mention LSU still has a top 7 talented roster. Look it up.
Are Notre Dame fans this football illiterate? 😂 He's gonna win 10 games in both seasons. Nobody expected LSU to be a title contender for a few years. They breed a bunch of idiots in Indiana. 😂😂😂 I guess we can't expect Notre Dame fans to know football, considering how average they've been for decades. 😂
@@JustinNDTrollSniper So yall are glad you just lost the best coach yall have had since Lou Holtz? Stop being delusional and butt hurt go look at the rankings of recruiting since Brian Kelly got there LSU and damn sure Alabama who Kelly was losing to just had better players. I like Notre Dame but yall just recruiting like Alabama,Georgia,LSU, and Clemson. Notre Dame does have ton of talent but if you think Marcus Freeman is going to do better than Kelly you are mistaken please tell me how a first time head coach is going to do better than a vet like Brian Kelly
@@kedrickd7 lmao look at the difference in recruiting the second Freeman waltzed into the HC position, why would we want a HC who had an obviously lower ceiling? It's hilarious how you guys need us to be upset over a coach leaving when we simply aren't. Nobody cares about how many 10 win seasons Kelly had just to get rolled over in playoffs and big games. He consistently hired shitty assistant coaches like VanGorder (worst DC in ND history), Jeff Quinn (worst Oline coach in ND history) and Del Alexander (worst WR coach in ND history). Kelly had clearly hit his plateau at ND and half the fan base was ready to move on from him before he left, everything Freeman's done since being hired has just solidified the fact that Kelly leaving is the best thing to happen to ND in a long time
@@kedrickd7 You guys just can't face the fact that ND is better off without Kelly so you try and force this narrative that we're "butthurt", it's a little pathetic tbh. The ND players, fans, admins...damn near everyone, are all glad Kelly left. It's hilarious that you guys not only think you have the next Saban, but every time a ND fan tells you how things are improving since Kelly left ND, you somehow take it to mean the exact opposite because you hate the fact that we just don't care that he left. If the program had started trending down in recruiting and staffing hires after Kelly left I'm sure you'd hear a lot more concern about the state of ND football.
@@kedrickd7 and how is a first time head coach going to do better? Idk take a look at all the first time head coaches who switched from DC or OC positions and flourished afterwards, Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Ryan Day, the list goes on and on
@@irishtrending Who were the head coach(s) in the 20 years (when ND was completely irrelevant) Before Kelly arrived? You're missing the point completely.... If Les Miles and Ed Ogeron can can national titles at LSU... BK likely can. With the limitations placed on him at ND he still made two CFP appearances and a BCS title game. Think of what he can do without those limitations. I'm not an LSU or ND fan but lately ND fans amuse the hell out of me. Nd was a joke before Kelly arrived. They were lucky to break 500 and were non-existent in the national conversation for 20 years. Now after Kelly raised the program from the dead ND fans act like they've been there this entire time.... You haven't. Notre Dame was a joke since Holtz before Kelly arrived. So stop it. Of course everyone (ND fans) wants to act like Freeman is the answer. Forgetting he has exactly 1 year working under Kelly and no head coaching experience. ( besides blowing a big lead in his one bowl game) Truth is Kelly has way more proven experience of winning over multiple decades and multiple stops. However without Kelly Freeman is never there and he has absolutely nothing to work with because ND is still a middling program with nothing to work with before Kelly rebuilt it.
Why are LSU fans so pissed that ND fans hated Kelly? I just don't get it. Like 90% of ND fans thought the dude was a total ass, and are now out saying it, and LSU fans are all mad. Why do y'all care what a bunch of ND people think?
@@45876pretty good. LSU is gonna win 10 games for the 2nd straight season, despite having less than 50 scholarship players on the roster when he took over. We knew this would take time. Number 1 offense and Heisman also looks pretty good. LSU'S 2025 class will end up being a top 5 class, possibly better. We're happy down here. We've seen 3 national titles since 2003, so we know what it looks like, and he's on the right track.
I think both sides have a point. Recruiting is not Kelly's strongest suit but he's still a damn good coach. That's why on paper, and thus far, it works so well because he doesn't have to travel half way across the country to recruit some of the nation's best players. You just need a decent coach and the program sells itself.
LSU talent has been better at the skilled positions whether they had a 10-12 win season or went 7-5 wrs rbs de db dt have consistently been nfl talent not just really good college players
Yep. Poor old Brian Kelly. Takes over a team with 37 players. Wins the West in the toughest conference in college football, plays for the SEC championship, wins the bowl game. Great prediction dude.
It’s sour grapes lol This could turn into a helleva rivalry lol ND and LSU need to make it happen, a home and home in the opener every year for 10 years lol wow
Why did he say that Brian Kelly wont recruit the he needs to, then turn around and say Notre Dame didn't lack talent in big games, but performance. Brian is full of bs. Notre dame recruiting showed they were 10(ish) in recruiting rankings. Top 3 or 4 usually win the big show. And LSU is already ahead in their 2023 recruiting than he ever got at Notre Dame.
I’m laughing my ass off that this guy believes the reason ND lost big time games is because Brian Kelly didn’t coach his player well enough. Everyone in the back who cannot here me….. THE TALENT LEVEL AT LSU, CLEMSON, GEORGIA, and ALABAMA IS ON A HIGHER LEVEL THAN THE TALENT LEVEL AT NOTRE DAME!! Also it’s seems that Driscoll is pretty salty that BK left Notre Dame.
@@ramboeastwood1522 damn so how did he win more than any coach in ND history? Y’all are supposed to be a “blue blood”, so how could such a bad coach be the most successful coach at a “bLuE bLoOd”???
@@aaronbalakey5377 He's not a bad coach, he's a good coach but not an elite coach. He won the most games at ND because he was there for 12 yrs, more of a longevity award. He ain't got statues on campus and nobody celebrates him. We are thankful tho, turned the program around but maxed his potential at ND. He's a lazy recruiter and a terrible in game coach, along with the fact that he's not likable or relatable to players. Just facts. ND is a blue blood, no matter how many lower case or big case letters you wanna throw together. If he would get out of his own way, he could be elite but he won't because the dude is beyond stubborn. Keep reaching tho. I know one thing, you southerners sure don't mind showing your ignorance.
Lived in South Bend my whole life been Notre Dame fan my whole life to say they we're as talented as Alabama in the big game is absurd. This guy has an agenda against Kelly obviously
Really Florida state beat down is exactly what Kelly does best.. blow out losses.. LSU should never lose to most teams by that many pints given their significant talent advantages across the board
Watching Kelly all the years at Notre Dame it became apparent that he took them as far as he could while not winning that big game. Talent or not it takes an elite coach to get his players up and ready to take on anybody. Time will time where Marcus Freeman and Brian Kelly are at. I didn't care for Kelly myself but I appreciated his results. College football as a whole is just to predictable with three teams dominating the landscape the last 10 years. All the rest of the teams play second fiddle and end up in the who cares bowl game.
Brian Kelly was never a recruiter . His staff had some good recruiters . Brian Kelly lied to a recruit and his family in their house on his way out of ND . Brian Kelly is an ego maniac . He blamed everything , and everyone except himself . Most Notre dame fans wanted Kelly gone along time ago . The proof is every one on his staff at ND told him no when he tried to get them to go to LSU with him , except the special teams coach who would have been fired if he didn’t go . Kelly gave jobs to his friends , and when it was plain to see they couldn’t do the job he didn’t get rid of them . Mark this down Kelly will not last at LSU . In 2 years all of you LSU fans will be cursing the day he was hired . Mark it down ! Irish ☘️
Haha ok man. Yeah just lost your "Nick Saban." You're excited about a defensive coach who's never been a head coach. We'll see where this ends withing the next 5yrs
Did you know that Marcus Freeman and Tommy Rees had both already committed to going with Kelly to LSU unless Freeman got the head job? All that "nobody wanted to go with Kelly" garbage isn't true. Og yeah, he also brought your punter, S&C coach and Special Teams coach with him. If Freeman wouldn't have gotten the head job, you'd have a completely new coaching staff because most of them would be in Baton Rouge this year. Sorry to ruin your delusions with facts.
@@markbeezley8307 you obviously have no idea what you’re taking about the strength and conditioning coach is still at ND . Lol the punter !!! STFO this ignoramus said the punter !! Lol . He lied to a recruits parents on an in home visit !! Told them he wasn’t leaving when he knew he was . Since you think you know so much , I’m sure you seen the story that just came out from the current BC QB that left ND because he also lied to his parents as well , not to mention A QB has all ready left LSU stating the same thing happens . All Kelly cared about was the money . Good riddance .
That the truth. LSU fans will disagree and can say whatever they “think” BK is or will be. Just stop bc u don’t know and I promise u will find out exactly who BK really is. No need to argue, just wait and see.
Well, here this from a South Bend resident [though I'm not a Leprechaun fan] ... LSU is improving. Sure, they started off rough. However, the ship is raising its sails. The competitiveness is showing to be more sound deeper into the season than before. If ever there were a time to be in Baton Rouge, it is now, when A&M and Bama are missing something. Alabama will likely recover sooner than later, but the West Div in the SEC is feeling rather balanced, instead of dominated this year.
Real LSU fan here. He has some work ahead of him. Louisiana talent will always end up at LSU out of pride for the state. He needs to figure out how to win with it
Okie dokie, i have been an LSU fan for 67 years and I've been through a lot of head coaches as a fan, in as much as I hate to admit it, the hiring of Kelly is not a good fit ! I hope I'm wrong, but, i don't see it happening, i think we (LSU) will do good to win 7 games this year and hopefully, Kelly will be gone, it's just a bad fit !
I agree. I have been a Notre Dame fan for 34 years. He did make Notre Dame better but he couldn't win the big games. History repeats itself. Notre Dame screwed up royally with the fat contract given to Charlie Weis who had no business being a head coach. Unfortunately the BK hiring will likely be a huge mistake.
@@STMARTIN009 oof. Care to rethink that? Guy has beaten two top 10 teams in his first season at LSU including Saban and Alabama. Rebuilding a roster he took over with 39 scholarship players. Takes down Saban and Bama in his first year at LSU,something he couldn't do in all those years at ND. Imagine what he'll do in 2-3 years when he's had a chance to completely rebuild this roster and program. I have the upmost respect for ND and their proud history and tradition. However, this isn't the 1980's anymore. College football has changed. Kelly knows that and it's why he took the LSU job. LSU is one of the best jobs in the country on potential alone. There's a reason LSU has won 3 national championships and played in 4 in the last 20 years, meanwhile ND hasn't won one since the 80's and the one they have appeared in since then? Kelly got them there.
If he can continue to show this kinda coaching and the steady improvement of players, I'm all in and will support coach Kelly to the end ! I'm a tiger fan first, I'm a coach fan second ! Geaux tiger's
Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame 1-3 bc they "survived" against Cal! LSU is 2-1 with a very rare occasion happening at FSU to drop that game by 1pt. But atleast LSU looks fast and tough and only lost by 1 point compared to what Notre Dame looks like and who they're losing to. Marshall shouldn't have been anywhere near Notre Dame by the half yet they dominated the Irish in the trenches, basically in every single aspect of the game ND made Marshall look more like Alabama than the automatic victory they were supposed to be. Like someone said, "Marshall got paid 1.4 million dollars to travel to South Bend and beat a ranked Irish team at their house!" That's not too bad of a deal for Marshall lol. Not so much for Freeman or Notre Dame. Sour Grapes!
A greatcoat is a greatcoat a great coaches going to figure everything out within a 1-year of stepping off that airplane to be introduced as the head coach of the New School
Lmao who cares if he didn’t coach in the south it’s football if he wins nobody in Baton Rouge cares where he’s from. Plus he will get better recruits because Louisiana flooded with talent. go watch Rudy and cry about the golden days of ND
Not a lsu fan but thus take isn't aging well not saying lsu is gonna win a natty this year but dude should end up 10-2 with a sec championship appearance in his first year with a team that barley made it to a bowl game last year
Brian Kelly did take Notre Dame as far as they could go, because Notre Dame will never win a national title again. No way Kelly was going to beat that Bama team in the championship game, or their playoff game. Notre Dame can't match up to the top teams. They don't have the talent. Period. Freeman definitely ain't setting the world on fire. Kelly took over a dumpster fire and he's gonna win 10 games in each of his first 2 seasons, including an SEC west title. LSU had the number 1 offense in the country this season, and he already had a player win a Heisman, something he never did at Notre Dame. 😂
And how's Marcus Freeman looking for ND fans right now? After 4 games his biggest accomplishment is barely beating unranked Cal to improve his record to 1-3 as a HC but losing to Marshall must be what he means by "getting the team ready to play!" I'd bet my retirement that today, in late September 2022 if LSU played Notre Dame it would be BADDD news for the Irish. Atleast BK isn't adding gasoline to the "dumpster fire" but putting it out! Barely losing to a good FSU team because of multiple special teams miscues then whopping a local small school, and recently holding Mississippi State to only 16 points in a 31-16 win vs. an SEC opponent. Any unbiased college football analyst would admit that LSU is simply a better program, it needs a lot of work before they hoist their next national championship trophy. They are atleast closer to winning bigtime games than Notre Dame if LSU should be 3-0 if not for a fluke play, Notre Dame going down to Marshall should indicate that they're closer to a middle of the road team than a big game contender or winner. *I like Marcus Freeman but he's in a bad situation and isn't going to be successful there. He's a great D-coordinator who was elevated too soon to HC and at a place that isn't even living in 2022 when you look at the facilities and resources for the players to develop. Marcus might be winning games if he was HC of a program that upgraded their facilities in the last decade or two! He's impressing me with recruiting especially with the much higher academic requirements than virtually any other school but Brian Kelly WILL WIN a Championship at LSU in 4 years or less! His style has been proven to work. The culture that will be completely different from Coach O. will benefit the players and program. Just look at some of the players who put on 25-30lbs of good weight in 3-4 months at LSU with the strength and conditioning, the nutrition program at LSU alone gives the purple and gold an advantage in player health. I'd take the Tigers by 7 over the Irish today and by next season I'd take LSU by more than that as the two programs head into opposite directions under their new Head Coaches. *This guy is just a homer who's never seen another school hire away a winning coach like LSU did with Brian Kelly and these fans almost seem insulted by it! A Louisiana school "stealing" the HC of the mighty Fighting Irish (subtract the "Fighting" from that) may seem very surprising but when you peel away the layers and look at the reasons besides money, you'll probably understand his decision and it was an easy one. He already took Notre Dame as far as they're going to go in this new age of football and is smart enough to realize that. Freeman won't be able to put the same level of talent on the field as Alabama or Georgia and anyone who doesn't agree with me on that is suffering from ND & BK bias syndrome lol. The fact is that ND is heading back to where they were during Charlie Weiss, Ty Willingham, and the days of a double digit winning season will become cause for celebration! LSU is going to follow their same pattern of winning championships. The last 3 HC's have won one, played in another and the last 2 HC's at LSU in Ed Orgeron and Les Miles weren't half the coach that BK is but they recruited the state of Louisiana well and put athletes out there, hired good assistant coaches and coordinators, and stood back and watched the Tigers win. A Tigers team that plays in the toughest division and conference in all of college football! Having to play Alabama, Auburn Texas A&M, Arkansas, Florida, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, plus one more SEC East team in their conference schedule annually is enough to be battle tested if they can survive that gauntlet! Don't worry about Brian Kelly, he's not your problem anymore. Worry about Marcus Freeman, he is your problem and at 1-3 to start his career there's a lot to worry about with him at the helm. Good luck with that! Maybe these fans throwing shade at BK will finally stop now that there are much more pressing issues at hand in South Bend!
@@milkncookiesable LOL Absolutely not. Perkins is going to be a star. Matthews may be also but Perkins is already one of the most purely athletic and talented players on the team not named Boutte.
Hard disagree…Kelly did as well as you possibly can at Notre Dame. They will never win another National championship…getting to a playoff or title game is the absolute peak. He went to LSU because it’s possible there.
This didn’t age well. LSU is back in the AP top 25 as of today , and if they beat my top 10 Vols next weekend , they will be in the top 15. Meanwhile …… where is notre dame ?
@@kenrickdailey318 well I can say this you guys still have been a much better program than ND for awhile and unlike ND, won’t wait around For 11 years to keep that joker. I have watched that man lose games like that forever. He is a lazy recruiter and average coach at best.. even at LSU u have to expend some effort to recruit. I think the LSU AD was fooled into thinking this guy was capable of winning because of his time at ND. If you look closely at his record of big games at ND he failed miserably. You should be able to win 9 games minimum at LSU by accident.
