Maybe if you win I'll be on time...

the statement about the $10 kitty and party at his house is an attempt to impose his power on her and to humiliate her. f@ck him. he's a homicide-cover-up-motherf@cker. i wish him nothing but failure
You took his joke as an attempt to impose his power on her? The guy's comments were clearly a joke and the reporter's response was unprofessional.

The guy is a douche who got a kid killed, but that doesn't mean every single thing he does is terrible.
 
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As much as I dislike Brian Kelly he should have ignored the reporter, and not called on her. If she complained, tell her she used her time. Her comment was unprofessional. I assume she doesn‘t represent a local high school paper. Or Penny Saver….

99% of these reporters can f-off, acting as if anything they write brings any value.
This. Like most “ media “ now she’s an entitled ****. I won’t refer to her as a journalist because those died awhile ago.
 
You took his joke as an attempt to impose his power on her? The guy's comments were clearly a joke and the reporter's response was unprofessional.

The guy is a douche who got a kid killed, but that doesn't mean every single thing he does is terrible.
i did. and it wasn't a joke. when people in power like Kelly make "jokes" like that in front of many people it is a subtle way of trying to impose his power on her. he is "acting" like he has the power to fine her (the $10 kitty) and then he is going to use that money to have a party at his mansion (i have a big f@cking house and you don't). yeah, that's how i read it.

she, correctly, interpreted what he said and responded by saying "f@ck you, when stop sucking at your job, i'll be on time, until then I will show up when i want to and you can't do anything about it." i deplore the media, the left-wing victimhood and all of the woke BS going on in the world, but that exchange betrays who Kelly really is.
 
i did. and it wasn't a joke. when people in power like Kelly make "jokes" like that in front of many people it is a subtle way of trying to impose his power on her. he is "acting" like he has the power to fine her (the $10 kitty) and then he is going to use that money to have a party at his mansion (i have a big f@cking house and you don't). yeah, that's how i read it.

she, correctly, interpreted what he said and responded by saying "f@ck you, when stop sucking at your job, i'll be on time, until then I will show up when i want to and you can't do anything about it." i deplore the media, the left-wing victimhood and all of the woke BS going on in the world, but that exchange betrays who Kelly really is.
Okay, sure. It's not that deep, but you do you.
 
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Not after you account for the vacated wins in 2012 and 2013.

Knute Rockne won 105 games in 13 seasons with an .881 winning percentage and 3 national championships. Lou Holtz won 100 games in 11 seasons with a .765 winning percentage and 1 national championship. Ara Parseghian won 95 games in 11 seasons with an .836 winning percentage and 2 national championships. Frank Leahy won 87 games in 11 non-consecutive seasons (2 years of naval service in WWII) with an .855 winning percentage and 4 national championships.

Kelly's official NCAA-sanctioned record at ND is 92-39 in 12 seasons for a .702 winning percentage and zero-point-zero national championships. And Kelly was only .731 before the vacated wins. All four of those previously-mentioned ND coaches won at a higher clip than Kelly, and Kelly shouldn't get "extra credit" for extra games due to longer seasons and expanded post-season.
Works for me. I forgot about those vacated wins but when his record is/was shown during sports talk shows or games, it’s mentioned he’s the winningest in total number of wins.

BTW, he couldn’t make a pimple on the asses of Rockne or Parseghian.
 
You took his joke as an attempt to impose his power on her? The guy's comments were clearly a joke and the reporter's response was unprofessional.

The guy is a douche who got a kid killed, but that doesn't mean every single thing he does is terrible.


Maybe you're a professor and you don't work in the business world, but I've seen that type of "clearly a joke" a million times. And it's almost always by one of the people with the most power in the room trying to rub his ballsack all over the person with the least power in the room.

If you haven't experienced that type of passive-aggressive bullying before, you need to leave academia and get to work in a real-life situation.
 
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Okay, sure. It's not that deep, but you do you.
It’s not. Kelly is a pompous **** and deserved the cooking he received. That simple.

Dude was running his mouth about other people’s jobs and talking about throwing a party in his mansion, while he completely sucked in his first showing at his new gig. And he got called out on it. And some of ya’ll defending him lmao.
 
Huh?

He was at Central Michigan for 3 years. Cincy for 3 years. CMU was a slow-build, going from 4 wins to 6 wins to 9 wins. Cincy was a quick success, going from 10 wins to 11 wins to 12 wins. I don't think I would call 3-year tenures "long runs".

At Notre Dame he was all over the place for 12 years, including a 4-8 season halfway through his tenure. I realize his third season (2012) was very good, but was invalidated due to NCAA violations, thus it's really just his last 5 years (out of 12) that are truly impressive.

That’s kinda my point. During his career he’s personally had long runs of sustained success.

I’m not faulting him for a down season.

Apparently only Nic Saban never has those.

Point standing the guy can coach.
 
Here's where I respectfully disagree.

The camera is always focused on the coach. We never see the reporters coming in and out. Having been to many of those press conferences, I can absolutely say that reporters are frequently coming in/out during the entire event, and I have rarely, if ever, seen a coach call out the media in such a way. It would be different if a reporter was being loud and disruptive in her late arrival, which does not appear to be what Kelly was talking about in his comments.

Also, though Kelly can claim he was joking, and his comments about "having a big party at his house at the end of the year" seem hillllllarious, his demeanor was serious, and his actions are the hallmark of a bully who is used to calling people out to humilate them. He's talking about fining people for being late (which is bullcrap, because he coaches in the NCAA, not the NFL).

While I'm not a huge fan of sports writers and would never give a blanket defense of them, I've observed enough to know they have deadlines and are trying to talk to as many sources (players and coaches) as possible, and so "being a few seconds late to a press conference" is pretty standard and tame stuff, much more of an occupational hazard than some intentional disrespect shown to an oversensitive corch.

Did the reporter get off a zinger? Sure. But this is 98% on Kelly. He started it, and he pretty much got what he deserved in that situation.
Everything you wrote is entirely possible and Kelly could just as easily have not said anything. But he’s an arrogant prick so he could not help himself. And the reporter was rude so she could not help herself. They should have fun for the next few years.
 
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