Brian Kelly new head coach at Notre Dame

Kelly to Coach Irish: Money talks

How much hypocrisy is there in the world, and in college football?

So today Notre Dame will announce this afternoon that Brian Kelly, the FORMER head coach of Cincinnati, will be the new head coach of Notre Dame.

Now let’s start spewing moronic statements…starting with Lou Holtz.

In an interview on ESPN today, he was asked how they might do next year, with the 2010 schedule halfway done. I saw that list and saw teams like Stanford, USC, Navy, Utah and a few others. Lou Holtz said, “I think they can go undefeated if they have a great defense”

Again with the stupid remarks! This is the same idiot that said the last two years that Notre Dame would go undefeated and win the National Championship…both times he was woefully wrong!

How in the name that is good can ESPN let this idiot keep spewing forth such wicked lies! I can understand being a fan or supporter of a team, but ESPN pays him to be HONEST…not lying and wicked! This man consistently fails to give a honest and sincere opinion about the team he used to coach, but has no problem complaining about everything else…what a moron!

They also asked this “expert” of how soon it can take to turn this team around… he said it can be done in ONE YEAR.

Liar

Let’s understand, Notre Dame loses their coach, a key quarterback and receiver, has likely lost recruits due to this fiasco, with a new coach on the way that has burned his bridges along the way, to coach a new team whose former coach burned bridges himself. You really think that will turn around in ONE YEAR?

It really is a discredit to ESPN to allow somebody like Lou Holtz sit there and make lies about this team. If you can’t be realistic then you don’t need to be running your mouth. I bet Mark May and Reese Davis are vomiting over the crap Holtz is spewing.

But the damage is done, and yet in the name of vanity more damage was done than necessary. Just today I was viewing the reactions of some of those Cincinnati players, and many of them were not very positive in how Brian Kelly bailed out on them just before the biggest came the university ever had.

What I don’t understand is how the media is so blind to the clear disruption Notre Dame caused by talking to a head coach before his BCS bowl game. Why enter like a thief in the night to steal a coach from his team, when you could have waited a few weeks longer? Notre Dame has declined a bowl game, which to me was foolish, because you now forsake the extra 2-3 weeks of practice, which every team can use. Don’t tell me that there would not have been a decent list of coaches willing to take that job after January, I am not buying that, even for a screwed up university like Notre Dame.

The entire practice just seemed…unholy…from a so called religious school. I forgot, isn’t Notre Dame a Catholic university…and under such so called ideals should there also be some moral and spiritual way of going about hiring a coach? Is it righteous to sneak in a college and plop money in front of another university’s coach to lure him out? Would they not have been more righteous to simply wait until Cincinnati finished their bowl game before they made the hire official?

But it goes both ways too, Brian Kelly now looks like a sneaky rat too. Now, I don’t blame a man for wanting to coach in bigger places, and no one will argue that Cincinnati is smaller than Notre Dame as far as football history, but the way he went about it was just as sleazy as Notre Dame’s offer.

In his wake he leaves a team now torn, forced to play without their head coach. But you know, this is hypocritical because the media always likes to talk about “distractions”. When Spikes from Florida was gouging the eyes of a player and got a half of a game for suspension, that was a “distraction” to the team. When Blount from Oregon punched a guy early this season, and was suspended for a full year (to be changed later), that was a “distraction” to the team. But when a head coach bails out on his team to take the money, nobody is talking about how huge a distraction that can be.

I don’t blame Cincinnati for being upset, and it seems that the NCAA is cool with coaches not finishing their job and making that example to these kids. We get all on athletes when they want to try to go to the NFL too early or when it comes to correcting their students, but when grown men make such choices, nobody says anything. It’s becoming hypocritical for coaches to bail out on their players for “greener grass”, leaving the team, the university and fans in confusion.

Is this a good hire…how is this any different from the last 3 coaches? Lou Holtz can say all he wants about how good Notre Dame will be, the current history shows that it won’t be any different. If Notre Dame dumbs down the schedule, and put a few high school teams on the schedule, and if they make all the game at home, then I can see Notre Dame making a BCS run in the next couple of years. But with the shot they took in recruiting, the impatience of the rich alumni and the perverted tactics of this religious school…I am not holding my breath.

So Brian Kelly is the new head coach of Notre Dame…good luck Kelly, you’re gonna need a heck of a lot of that where you are going…because you won’t get much else.