![]() ![]() High score in run n gun football plus#But even those few who do, including the players on the Presbyterian roster, have no idea what it's like to lose a game by 10 touchdowns plus a safety and then spend the next week willingly submitting to life as a social media punching bag. Not many people know what that feels like to lose a football game by ten touchdowns, plus a salt-in-the-wound safety. "This is what it's like right after you lose a game 72-0." "Sorry about this," Kelley said as he was finally able to stand up from behind his desk and extend a handshake. That waiting list included any sportswriters who just happened to be wandering around the room reading framed stories from Sports Illustrated ("Just Go for It!") and letters sent from the White House ("Congratulations on your 200th victory!"). No matter who called today, even Belichick, who checks in with Kelly multiple times a week, would have to wait until this Twitter thing was resolved. The post was gone now, but the tweet was a shot of poison into his locker room's morale and Kelley wanted to have the antidote ready by the time practice started later that afternoon. A member of his Presbyterian College team, a reserve, had posted a rather unflattering comment about his new head coach. Instead, Kelley was hunkered down behind his laptop, staring at a tweet, running one hand through his gray hair while holding his phone in the other. 'A magical ride': Steve Spurrier, the Fun-n-Gun offense and Florida's first national titleīut instead, when walking into the cinder block conference room that the coach has commandeered as his office and strolling past the wall of framed media stories (Time magazine listed his no-punt offense alongside the AIDS vaccine and teleportation as the greatest inventions of 2009), the 52-year-old human powerplant that is Coach Kelley wasn't his normal spirited self.About whatever other fun football topics on which we might giddily gab. About having Bill Belichick on speed dial. About winning nine Arkansas high school state titles in 18 seasons. ![]() Talking about not even carrying a punter on the roster. Talking trick plays on second down in the first quarter. The idea was to have a chat that might provide even further insight into Kevin Kelley's head, the one that contains what has been described as football's version of "A Beautiful Mind." Talking ball. Yes, the plan was to visit sleepy Clinton, South Carolina, on Wednesday, two days after College GameDay had been there to shoot a feature for this weekend's show from Notre Dame-Wisconsin in Chicago and three days after an extensive profile of Kelley was published in newspapers throughout the Carolinas. Andrew's University, as well as the hammer-down mentality behind the following weekend's 68-3 throttling of NCAA Division II's University of Fort Lauderdale, producing 635 yards of offense and, yes, zero punts. The plan was to talk about Week 1, when quarterback Ren Hefley set an FCS record with 10 TD passes in an 84-43 rout of NAIA school St. CLINTON, SC - OK, so the plan was to drive down to Presbyterian College this week and interview Kevin Kelley, the dude who never punts, about the incredible start to his first season as a college football coach. ![]()
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