WATCH: Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly blasts Vanderbilt for 'bad football'
The Vanderbilt Commodores tried their best late, but came up short in a 22-17 loss at Notre Dame on Saturday.
Since the Fighting Irish came away with the win, you’d think they’d have moved on by now, but coach Brian Kelly is still upset with the Commodores.
The source of Kelly’s frustration, which you can see him explain in the video below, was the fact that Vanderbilt kept cut blocking one of his offensive linemen:
Here's what Brian Kelly had to say about Vanderbilt's cut blocking of Alizé Mack this past weekend. Clearly not happy.
"It's bad football and I don't have a problem saying it." #NotreDame pic.twitter.com/pdk43LwNrs
— Matt Randall (@mattrandall_) September 18, 2018
“He was getting cut maliciously by their defensive end,” he said. “That’s just bad football. It’s legal, but it’s bad football and I have no problem saying it. We’re so concerned about frontal cuts, and we’ve got a defensive end chopping him on every play.”
As Kelly said, the plays are legal, but perhaps the NCAA will take a look at changing the rules this offseason, especially if Kelly and others complain.
Wait, Brian Kelly thinks cut blocking is something a defensive end does to a tight end?
Huh. Notre Dame football suddenly makes more sense.
It happens.
Brian Kelly is one of the most overrated coaches in college football history? What has he accomplished? Getting blown out in national championship after playing a weak schedule? What else? Make the citrus, fiesta, music city and whatever else bowl? All the history of Notre Dame football and he has done jack squat. He is just upset his team sucks this year and barely beat a Michigan team with a new QB (who is now figuring out the system), a Ball State team that got blasted by Indiana this past week, and Vandy who basically whooped them in every aspect of the game except the one that mattered, the scoreboard. Brian Kelly is a very overrated coach. No one gives two rips what he says.
Let’s not forget he also sent a student up a scissor lift to film a practice in 50 mph winds, and that student ended up dying. It’s funny how people just forgot about that.
I missed the part where somebody was hurt in these blocks, if they did it so often and it was so dangerous then one would think that numerous players would have be carried off the field. Maybe Mason said “use that block but don’t hurt anybody, so if the block was legal and executed is less than a injurious way…?