Kelly's language just in this case
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – It’s comical, really. The mean man has a dirty mouth, and we’re not going to take it anymore.
If I’m Brian Kelly, you know what I say? @#$! you.
You want to coach this schizophrenic Notre Dame team? See how far you get without uttering a four-letter bomb. If I’m Brian Kelly, you know what I say? @#$! you.
The day Kelly becomes Ward Cleaver is the day Notre Dame looks for another coach. Until then, he’ll keep doing everything he can to win games – while standing on the sideline and watching the unfathomable follow the unreal.
And all of it against his Irish.
If you thought last week was unkind to Notre Dame, this week was the deepest, darkest, disturbing loss in a long, long time. Somehow, amid the mayhem, Notre Dame built a 17-point lead, lost a 17-point lead, drove for a game-wining touchdown in the final minute – then lost on two prayer throws from Michigan that were both naturally, answered.
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And now Kelly gets to wake up tomorrow morning and hear someone tell him he swears too much.
This is the way it works in the job that grinds you until you’re physically spent and beaten, until you’re so mentally taxed, you unleash a nationally-televised, profanity-laced tirade at your underachieving team in the season opener -- and you’re suddenly George Carlin with a headset.
The next thing you know, some bobblehead on television is asking you if you have “anger problems,” and a former coach is hiding behind a microphone bemoaning your “inappropriate behavior.”
What Brian Kelly did, everyone, was try to shake the funk – not wake the echos – from a program in desperate need of something different. Something new, something unique, something defining.
A week after giving away – and by giving away, I mean giving away-- a game to USF in front of a hyped crowd expecting big things this fall, Notre Dame showed up in front of a juiced crowd at Michigan Stadium usually reserved for Ohio State games.
You wonder why Brian Kelly has colorful language?
Guess what? Tom Coughlin swears, too. Bob Huggins is a sailor in a sweatsuit. Jim Leyland’s dugout is worse than your local dive bar at 2 a.m.
We all want the sausage; we just don’t want to know how it’s made.
There were four more turnovers against Michigan (eight total this season), another turnover inside the opponent 5 (fifth this season), and a blown 24-7 lead late in the third quarter. Mother Teresa couldn’t hold back an expletive after the way Notre Dame has spit up all over itself in eight quarters this season.
You want to coach this team? Try this on for size:
First and goal at the Michigan 9, time running out in the fourth quarter and ND trying to score while protecting a 24-21 lead. Quarterback Tommy Rees changes the play at the line of scrimmage, tries to throw, the ball slips from his hands and Michigan recovers.
What are the odds Kelly – and everyone else worth their weight in Touchdown Jesus genuflections – screamed a four-letter bomb? Meanwhile, your opponent’s best play is to wait for you to screw up – then start chucking jump balls and hope they come down with them.
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