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Yes. And that's probably my biggest disagreement of all. by revressbo

I don't like the video board, turf, the Irish Guard changes, the decreasing frequency of the band's role and the decreasing frequency of the student section chants/organic noise & energy (due to the increase in piped-in music and video board), etc., all of which have come under Kelly's watch. The only one on that list that I'm sure BK did not have a role at all in in any capacity is the Irish Guard. The others I think he either had a direct role in (turf) or indirect/requesting role (the video board/music). I think all those changes have hurt our tradition. But those are all, relatively speaking, inconsequential compared to the faith.

We are a Catholic institution. The change happened probably 8+ years ago now, so I don't recall the exact reasoning, but I think BK requested it because he thought Mass didn't get the players in the right frame of mind and/or they had too many responsibilities on Gameday. That shows a complete lack of understanding of what the Mass is (I can't think of anything more masculine than the Lord sacrificing himself on Calvary), which is a failure on us as an institution, both from a standpoint of educating our players and for not having our priorities in the right place (we can't do a 25-minute Mass on Gameday, because we have to have one more position meeting, that they couldn't do before or after or throughout the week? Or the guys need that time to just sit around? What exactly?).

It's disappointing when the football coach thinks it's not important enough. It was fine for everyone from the devout successful coach (Holtz) to the devout failed coach (Faust) to the non-Catholic (Ara, Willingham). Ultimately, if the Mass is incompatible with football (it's not, by the way), then we need to drop football.

And it ultimately is an example of one of Kelly's biggest drawbacks of all, something I didn't but should've mentioned in my OP: frequently trying to shift blame/make excuses when things don't go the team's way on the field. In this case, it was the fact that they had to go to Mass. But that's far from the only example.

I find it interesting too that that's what you chose to comment on out of my entire original post.