From The Locker Room
Head coach Brian Kelly pinned Notre Dame's loss on poor execution of the fundamentals all around,
and on the coaching.
photo by Bill Panzica
Notre Dame head coach Brian
Kelly …
On whether he saw signs of bad
execution in practice before the
game: "No. You saw what happened.
Two interceptions, a fumble, a bigplay pass, missed tackle — fundamentals of the game of football. No
big picture things. Not really big,
heady stuff. These are just funda-
mentals of the game of football that
were not attended to in a matter that
they need to be.
"My mantra is you can't start winning until you stop losing, and we
did things tonight that cause losing."
On thinking these kinds of games
were a thing of the past: "We've
won a lot of games the last couple of