Possible Riley Leonard injury 'poetic justice' according to Georgia Tech writer

The Notre Dame football team posted a rather impressive win over Georgia Tech on Saturday. But one of the realities of the college football playoffs is that style points are key. That might have been one of the reasons why quarterback Riley Leonard stayed in the game when the win was in hand.

Of course, it’s also not as though the Fighting Irish totally blew the doors off Georgia Tech. The game was in doubt into the fourth quarter. The 31-13 victory was solid, but not the kind of game starting quarterbacks normally leave. Even if there was no real concern that the Rambling Wreck would make a comeback.

As it turns out, there was at least one Georgia Tech analyst who had a real problem with Riley Leonard still taking snaps for the Notre Dame football team all the way to the end of the game. Jacketsonline.com writer Kelly Quinlan tweeted something out of anger, and it looks like he deleted it, but the internet always remembers.

Georgia Tech writer wanted ‘poetic justice’ for Riley Leonard in Notre Dame game

Another college football writer, Bryce Koon grabbed the post and put it on Twitter. Quinlan posted, “it would be poetic justice if Leonard gets hurt here because ND is trying to win style points.”

Koon correctly found the comment pretty wild and pointed out a couple of reasons why Quinlan was way off base:

1) ND is vying for a playoff spot and needs dominant wins to offset an NIU loss, plus no title game. 

2) It's not Marcus Freeman's job to make sure that Georgia Tech doesn't get embarrassed, they did that themselves. 

3) If you don't want to get the ball moved on you or for the opposing teams to convert trick plays, stop them. 

4) Saying, "It would be poetic justice if Leonard got hurt as a journalist," might be the softest thing ever.

If we’re putting a list together, No. 5 would be that Quinlan was talking about someone who saw his season ended early in 2023 due to injury. Someone who wasn’t all the way back until this fall.

Riley Leonard didn’t get hurt. Alls well that ends well for Notre Dame football. But Quinlan’s post is the height of classlessness.