Stanford 17 Notre Dame 10

There is no light at the end of this nightmare. ND lost to a dreadful Stanford team whose best player was sidelined. Going up 10-0 at the half I felt sure we would coast along for at least another 20 points – we got 0.

QB Kizer seems to becoming completely unglued, to such an extent that he was replaced for 3 wasted series by Zaire. Play calling once again inept for ND and in the meantime the Stanford DL ate ours alive.

ND simply cannot block at all whether running or passing. You have to ask yourself whether these guys are any good at all or whether despite their size the are just lacking strength – the TE’s really suck.

So is the Strength coach any good? What about the revered OL coach Hiestand? Can he coach or is he simply a good recruiter who was blessed by Stanley, Watt and the two Martin brothers? I think it’s the latter. Remember Steve Elmer, he started as a freshman, but got worse every year until he just quit. Was he uncoachable?

No reason for ND’s Center not to be replaced. Put the Hoge kid in and lets start building for 2017.

If this meltdown was a business, consultants would be crawling all over the place. Swarbrick needs to have an entire evaluation of each and every football coach on this team. Kelly is now exuding “loser” and seems disengaged to the extent that he looks like he is looking for a way to get the hell out of South Bend.

I would say that the only coach on this team with any appeal is the alleged OC Sanford – he goes right after the season. Kelly should go or if not the entire asst. coaching brigade. You might keep Elston solely for recruiting and nothing else – lots of baggage in this program.

Meanwhile MSU lost again, this time to Northwestern 54-40.

Here are the highlight clips:

Here is the Brian Kelly post game press conference: