Last season, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said that he thought the Irish could be even better this year. Preparing for the opener against Duke, he sees plenty of positives.
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00:00 Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things to like about, you know, when you look at the basic
00:04 tenets of your football team, right?
00:06 The ability to run the football, to have a veteran quarterback back, certainly from a
00:13 defensive structure, one where your system is in place, you know, you feel like you have
00:21 the ability to stop the run.
00:23 And then on the perimeter, I think we're better than we were last year in a sense that we
00:29 have, you know, the safety and the corner position has evolved.
00:35 So coming into the season when your special teams now is returning, you feel really good
00:41 about where you are, but you know, you got to go play the games.
00:44 And we were in a different place this year in terms of our preparation than when I made
00:49 that comment in December.
00:50 There were a lot of different things that have occurred.
00:53 We didn't have spring practice, which I don't know that anybody's really going to be able
00:58 to tell what that does in terms of the effect of your football team, particular in these
01:05 early games.
01:06 I think the second thing is, you know, we didn't get all of our practices in, quite
01:10 frankly, and I don't know who will.
01:13 I mean, but there are those distractions that we had to, you know, obviously go through
01:21 and other teams will have those same distractions.
01:24 But my point being is those weren't in play in December, but the basic tenets of having
01:31 a really good football team, potentially a great football team, are in place, and now
01:38 we're going to have to go prove it.