Who Will be the Next Coach at Notre Dame

Have you noticed the way Cincinnati's defense has played lately? I'm not sure how much better Kelly has done in getting the right guys on defense.

 

But at least Kelly was a "4 year letter winner" as a linebacker.

I like idea of Patterson. His defense always plays with great intensity. Something ND has lacked since the days of Micheal Stonebreaker.

 

Throwing this out there for S&G...

Mike Shanahan.

/Waits for someone to say it's a horrible idea.

 

They were mostly Davie's kids. That's proveable. I could go through them player by player if I had time. Willingham was a horrible recruiter, at both Notre Dame and Washington. In 2007, the perfect storm of Weis' awful coaching and Willingham's awful talent led to a 3-9 abortion of a season.

You tell me that Notre Dame recruits are always "overrated" by the services. That's a cop-out. Willingham's "superior" recruits were always ranked very low by these services that supposedly hand Notre Dame recruits stars. So what gives?

You're trotting out tired excuses that don't hold up to scrutiny. Weis was a good recruiter and a bad coach. Just like Gerry Faust and Bob Davie.

 

I believe the word is absurd.

 

I think it's more accurate to say that Weis was a one dimensional recruiter.

 

I think that's fair. He landed some big-time DB's early, but could never land any defensive linemen. He landed the Te'o kid from Hawaii last year, but never consistently any play-making linebackers.

Remember, though, that a lot of the screw-loose guys that played on Holtz's national title team weren't Holtz academic exceptions. They were Faust guys. Zorich was a Holtz academic exception who now has a Notre Dame Law School degree to go along with his undergrad sheepskin. The linebackers on that team were all Faust recruits, and all half-nuts.

 

THAT's fair.

 

Yup. He went all out for offense and it showed.

 

If I'm a Notre Dame fan I'm psyched for next season. They always do well in the first year under a new coach. I'd hope the Dome could lock in on someone with at least five years of experience as a head coach at a big six conference school.
I like Stoops, the guy revived Oklahoma and is known for defense. Kelly would worry me only because it's one thing to lead a team to heights never reached before - quite another to lead a program with high expectations.

 

One of Holtz mantra's that has always resonated with me was his idea to get players into the right position -- ie take a slow linebacker and make them a fast defensive linemen. He used Zorich as an example.

Same philosophy that Paterno uses - a lot of kids have gone to Penn State as RB's that became great LB's

 

Are you serious? Willingham had superior recruits? That's insane.