Michigan State 36 Notre Dame 28

MSU cruised to an easy win rolling up 500+ yards while holding ND to 57 yards rushing. MSU’s defense absolutely mauled the ND OL with NT Malik McDowell doing damage to all 5 ND OL and yes that includes McGlinchy and Nelson – no way are those 2 ready for Sundays.

Obviously VanGorder has to go, but what do you do when the D players give little effort and play lazy, stupid ball. There is no toughness or exceptionalism in any D player as far as I can tell.

This is not just about a D system but also about want in the players. On both sides of the ball the ND players look gassed by end of the 1st quarter. Throw out the playbook and just copy Oregon’s plays.

Kizer is the whole offense and I would just go to the pass offense every play until the D backs off.

This off season Kelly needs to evaluate the DL coach, Todd Lyght and LB coach Elston – just for a start.

Keep Elston for he is doing very good recruiting co-ordination. Just get him off the field and into an office. I have the feeling the OC of Sanford goes when season over, something better than the 3 headed system Kelly has.

Notre Dame is drifting into the 3rd tier of college football along with the BC and Syracuse’s. Take a look at the schedule. We could easily lose 4 more games – Stanford, Miami, Va.Tech and USC.

This game really must have impressed all those recruits!!!

Here are the game highlights and post game Brian Kelly press conference: