How do you lose the respect of 90 people you have come to know and love, an entire school that has relied on you to bring their athletics to prominence and an entire city that latched on to you for being their only success? Take the Notre Dame head football coach job. Brian Kelly is gone, and I still don't understand why he left.
For reasons I listed earlier this week, I said that the Notre Dame job was not a good job to take at this point. His former team is outraged, calling him out on how he walked out on a National Championship contender for his "dream job". The seniors especially are angry. They have all said that it was the players, not the coach, that won those games, and that they will put their program on their back and beat Florida.
Even though I grew up as a Notre Dame fan, and I still am, I cannot be happy about this. The team will not be good next year, and they shouldn't expect to be. Their first winnable game will be their 7th game against Western Michigan. They will not beat their first 6 opponents- Purdue, Michigan, at Michigan State, Stanford, at BC and Pitt. They lose one more after that, they miss the bowl season, and their would still have to play Tulsa, Navy, Utah and at a rejuvenated USC. Get ready for a rough year Irish fans.
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