NDC coaching changes

[NDCfan]

https://notredamefalcons.com/news/20...ead-coach.aspx

[ShoNuff]

I am surprised to hear HC Mike Jacobs left NDC. Good luck to him as well as the new NDC HC.

[BearsLRU]

Have very little knowledge on NDC's football program. Can say LR is a great place to be if you're looking for a D1 job in the future, and he's most likely one of the higher paid coaches in D2 now.

LR is putting millions into winning a NC, he'll have a lot of pressure on him. We're excited! Good luck to NDC, maybe we'll see you in the playoffs!

[ShoNuff]

Have very little knowledge on NDC's football program. Can say LR is a great place to be if you're looking for a D1 job in the future, and he's most likely one of the higher paid coaches in D2 now.

LR is putting millions into winning a NC, he'll have a lot of pressure on him. We're excited! Good luck to NDC, maybe we'll see you in the playoffs!

Thank you for the info. Good luck going forward!

[IUPbigINDIANS]

Maybe he'll bring his prized RB with him.

[boatcapt]

LR does have a history of going after the "shinny object" when it comes to their many HC changes!

[CALUPA69]

Have very little knowledge on NDC's football program. Can say LR is a great place to be if you're looking for a D1 job in the future, and he's most likely one of the higher paid coaches in D2 now.

LR is putting millions into winning a NC, he'll have a lot of pressure on him. We're excited! Good luck to NDC, maybe we'll see you in the playoffs!

Second CAL U related HC to take charge at LR. Hope this one works out better.

[BearsLRU]

Second CAL U related HC to take charge at LR. Hope this one works out better.

Noticed this as well, lets hope so. Keller was held back by his unwillingness to start anyone at QB but his son.

[boatcapt]

What I recall, the major problem Kellar had was that he changed LRs offense from the "traditional" LR run first, second and third offense to a passing offense. The alums were not pleased with that at all!! Always going to be growing pains doing that and there was at LR. He didn't win immediately and that gave the alums time to lobby for him to be fired which is what happened.

[BearsLRU]

What I recall, the major problem Kellar had was that he changed LRs offense from the "traditional" LR run first, second and third offense to a passing offense. The alums were not pleased with that at all!! Always going to be growing pains doing that and there was at LR. He didn't win immediately and that gave the alums time to lobby for him to be fired which is what happened.

Sort of, the LR fanbase was willing to switch to the spread, the other SAC teams had finally figured out how to defend against our triple option, thing is Keller promised those in power a winning season his second year, can't do that and expect to have a job when you have the worst season in the past decade plus.

[boatcapt]

Sort of, the LR fanbase was willing to switch to the spread, the other SAC teams had finally figured out how to defend against our triple option, thing is Keller promised those in power a winning season his second year, can't do that and expect to have a job when you have the worst season in the past decade plus.

Well that is true. Can't promise and then not deliver! It was a mistake on his part to promise. Change over from a team built exclusively to run a triple option to a spread offense is a difficult process and obviously one that takes at least two (probably more like three...minimum) to implement. He promised near immediate success and it cost him that job.

Kellar is a very good coach and has a track record of success in turning programs around (see Concord and Glenville) and sustaining winning programs (see Cal). Little doubt that he would have been successful at LR had he been given more than two years.

[Marvin Everett]

There was so much more to the Keller situation. The problems were the culture of the team had no togetherness and broken discipline. Then there was his son starting at qb and should have been a back up learning to be a OC or something. I heard Keller had some situation at Cal Pa.

[CALUPA69]

There was so much more to the Keller situation. The problems were the culture of the team had no togetherness and broken discipline. Then there was his son starting at qb and should have been a back up learning to be a OC or something. I heard Keller had some situation at Cal Pa.

He took over a program that had been artificially pumped with funding and less than clean recruiting, especially D1 transfers, which finally imploded in '14 when three of his imports severely injured someone and brilliantly identified themselves as FB players while doing it. The university president acted immediately, and in my mind correctly, by announcing that the VULCANS would forfeit their next game as punishment. KELLER stayed around for the '15 season and then left for L-R. Oddly the '16 team was outstanding but the current coach, GARY DUNN, got the credit for KELLER'S work.

[Marvin Everett]

[CALUPA69]

I think KELLER is a solid coach but he doesn't place a lot of emphasis on personal discipline which can be said of many successful coaches.