Are you old enough to remember that Georgetown and North Carolina basketball national championship game, back when Michael Jordan was a freshmen. With the game on the line, and I think around 5 or 10 seconds left in the game and down one, Georgetown had the ball and guard Fred Brown just had an absolute brain fart and threw the pass right to NC player Jame Worthy, just killing Georgetown's chances and NC ran out the clock, He just panicked and threw the pass to the opposing team. But that's not what matters here. What matters is what happened after the game ended and NC began to celebrate its National Championship.
His player completely screwed up and John Thompson went right on the court and in full view of the all the TV cameras and hugged Fred Brown. He told Brown that he'd won a lot more game for Georgetown then he ever lost, so just forget about that pass. And Thompson made the same comment to the press after the game.
I have coached and I have yelled at players in the huddle and on the sidelines, and I've blistered players in the locker room. But, but in a situation like that with the game decided a good coach, a realistic coach absolutely must have his players' back, you have to !!! You can't publicly scapegoat a player for a loss, as a coach and as an adult, understanding person in charge of students, you just can't do that.
Well, let's look at Brian Kelly today.
Did you watch the end of the game where ND lost to NC State in the incredible rain. ND sucked the entire game, entire game. Their QB threw an interception on the NC States 8 yard line which was huge in the game. Well later in the game . . .
ND had 4th and 8 with a couple minutes to go at NC's 20 (what were ND's chances of getting that first down in that weather, pretty slim), there was a miscommunication between the center and the ND QB and the snap shot away, I think, through the QB's legs and ND's last chance (I said slim chance) to tie was over as the play ended and ND's offense came off the field.
As a coach and leader of young men, you have to absolutely keep it together there. You can't publicly embarrassed a player in that situation on a play that decides a game. You have to be better than that.
So what does does Brian Kelly do? He walks out onto the field as the center, # 53, is coming off the field, and Kelly bitches at him for, at least, 30 seconds but it seemed forever, the entire time the TV cameras are showing it. Just bitching in that poor player's face. Then another player walks up to the center and shakes his head and says something crappy-ass too. Kelly completely scapegoated that poor player. Was it the center's fault they had only scored 3 points all day? Did he throw the interception? Is it the center's fault that ND had already lost 3 other games this season.?
Then to make it worse, as NC State is running out the clock, after every play or two, the camera comes back and shows poor # 53 standing all by himself on the sidelines, further shaming that player, as if justifying Kelly behavior. Terrible, just terrible.
If I was the ND administration, I would be deeply ashamed of Kelly's behavior. If you understand anything about coaching and kids, that type of behavior is inexcusable.
His player completely screwed up and John Thompson went right on the court and in full view of the all the TV cameras and hugged Fred Brown. He told Brown that he'd won a lot more game for Georgetown then he ever lost, so just forget about that pass. And Thompson made the same comment to the press after the game.
I have coached and I have yelled at players in the huddle and on the sidelines, and I've blistered players in the locker room. But, but in a situation like that with the game decided a good coach, a realistic coach absolutely must have his players' back, you have to !!! You can't publicly scapegoat a player for a loss, as a coach and as an adult, understanding person in charge of students, you just can't do that.
Well, let's look at Brian Kelly today.
Did you watch the end of the game where ND lost to NC State in the incredible rain. ND sucked the entire game, entire game. Their QB threw an interception on the NC States 8 yard line which was huge in the game. Well later in the game . . .
ND had 4th and 8 with a couple minutes to go at NC's 20 (what were ND's chances of getting that first down in that weather, pretty slim), there was a miscommunication between the center and the ND QB and the snap shot away, I think, through the QB's legs and ND's last chance (I said slim chance) to tie was over as the play ended and ND's offense came off the field.
As a coach and leader of young men, you have to absolutely keep it together there. You can't publicly embarrassed a player in that situation on a play that decides a game. You have to be better than that.
So what does does Brian Kelly do? He walks out onto the field as the center, # 53, is coming off the field, and Kelly bitches at him for, at least, 30 seconds but it seemed forever, the entire time the TV cameras are showing it. Just bitching in that poor player's face. Then another player walks up to the center and shakes his head and says something crappy-ass too. Kelly completely scapegoated that poor player. Was it the center's fault they had only scored 3 points all day? Did he throw the interception? Is it the center's fault that ND had already lost 3 other games this season.?
Then to make it worse, as NC State is running out the clock, after every play or two, the camera comes back and shows poor # 53 standing all by himself on the sidelines, further shaming that player, as if justifying Kelly behavior. Terrible, just terrible.
If I was the ND administration, I would be deeply ashamed of Kelly's behavior. If you understand anything about coaching and kids, that type of behavior is inexcusable.
