Brian Kelly
Brian Kelly
Brian Keith Kellyis an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach for the University of Notre Dame, a position he has held since December 2009. Kelly was previously head coach at Grand Valley State University, Central Michigan University, and University of Cincinnati...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 October 1961
CityEverett, MA
bad happens tour treat whenever
Whenever something bad happens on tour we treat ourselves.
against answer care freshman great job matching pressure tom true
(Defensive coordinator) Tom Bradley did a great job matching up his backer against our true freshman tailback in pressure schemes. We could take care of the big on big, but we had no answer for Shaw.
critical knew last
It's critical for these young quarterbacks to get a feel for the game. Last year, we didn't have our quarterbacks live because we knew what we had in Kent Smith. This year, we need to find out what we have at that position.
hard jerry kids ready
Our kids have been working out and we're ready to play without Jerry Seymour, as hard as it may be.
corner deal playing
But, it's just what we deal with playing corner in this league.
african culture number taught
A number of them were African Americans that had been in that culture of violence, and they're taught to look away, ... You don't want anything to do with it. Get out of there. You don't say anything to anybody.
point
At that point in my career, I could have moved,
gives good guy help last option second
Anthony has always been a guy who has had speed, but we think he's a guy who can really come in and help us this year. It was unfortunate that we had to play him last year, but we think he gives us a real good second option right now.
came kids quite
...Our kids are going to be quite excited. They came here to play this kind of schedule.
certainly coach good head job
It's certainly not in the job description, ... The good thing is I've been a head coach for 15 years. A first-year head coach could have been a wreck.
ground hit last lost needed pleased point prepared running step
I thought our first day went really well. We are at a point now where we are not going to take a step back just because we lost our quarterback from last year. We needed to hit the ground running and I was pleased with how these young quarterbacks prepared themselves.
powers recognize
We all are going to outplay and outperform what we do and it's up to the powers that be to recognize that and acknowledge that.
close teams win
When you play teams at 1 o'clock, in the heat, that's not used to being in this weather, you should be able to close teams out and win games.
good penn state
The good part is we only have to play Penn State once, and not 10 times,