OFD Podcast - We Have Reached Our Ceiling

After 2016, Brian Kelly stole some of Willy Wonka’s Fizzy Lifting Drink and started a meteoric rise which culminated with a loss last night in the College Football Playoff semi-finals. Notre Dame has hit their peak under Brian Kelly. A peak which, as in 2012, seems to indicate that the best the Notre Dame Fighting Irish can do is getting invited to the dance and the painful truth is we will never be the belle of the ball. Any number of factors may be the root cause of this, but the outcome still remains... Notre Dame with Brian Kelly are really really really really good, but not great. Sure, the list of great/elite combinations of both program and coach is ridiculously small, but if Notre Dame isn’t scratching and clawing to get in that select group then what are we really doing here.

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