In the post right below this one, we mentioned that Brian Kelly would likely interview for the Notre Dame job at some point this week, perhaps as early as tomorrow.
According to ESPN.com‘s Joe Schad, it will indeed be tomorrow.
Citing a person close to the situation, Schad reports that Kelly and Irish officials will meet on Tuesday, with the sit-down likely to take place in New York City.
It’s believed that the Cincinnati head coach is ND’s No. 1 target, and that the interest is very much reciprocal.
Wow…thanks for the commitment coach Kelly. Way to be loyal to your fans that supported you, and the kids who played their hearts out for you. And I thought you were different than the rest. I thought you were sincere….your no better than Saban and the rest of the coaches who bail at the first big paycheck….Glad your going to Catholic school…..you need to go to confession…what a joke.
Hate to tell you this BakerSucks, but you’re Cincinnati – Not Notre Dame, or USC, or Michigan, or Oklahoma – Cincinnati. Your program was always a stop-gap.
Kelly has had to fight to improve the facilities and the stadium, and if he accepts this job he will be leaving the program in much better shape than what it was when he first came. Central Michigan has enjoyed continued success after Kelly by hiring one of his assistants – Hopefully Cincinnati can do the same.
BakerSucks, you couldn’t be more selfish. How dare you suggest that another person shouldn’t take a higher paying job with a higher profile employer. Why should he stay, for you? People leave for greener pastures every day, and I pretty much gaurantee you have to at some point, or will someday in the future. How much of a hypocrite are you if you have ever left for a higher paying job? It happens every day…why should he stay at Cincy? Hell, by your logic, he never should have left Central Michigan to go to Cincy, or left Grand Valley State before that. What a tool.
why should coach kelly not take notre dame’s money, go through the motions, and retire very early?
kelly is under no delusions that he can trust jack swarbrick or the notre dame administration or do anything to change the fatal systemic problems at notre dame.
yes, kelly will have to confess his sins, but kelly’s sins are nothing compared to those of jack swarbrick, which are unforgiveable sins.
kelly knows that dishonest big east officials saved cincinnati from 4 losses this season and that the bcs appearance is a fraud, but kelly cannot depend on such assistance next season.
Kelly chose a career in sports by being a football coach. This is no different than anyone else accepting a better job offer. Loyalty has nothing to do with it. Like it or not, the head coach of Notre Dame carries a bit more weight professionally than the head coach of Cincy.
Wow…way to go BakerSucks. Way to be loyal to a coach who brought you from nothing-ness to back-to-back BCS bowls and three straight 10+ win seasons. Prior to Kelly you hadn’t won 10 games since 1951 (the most in your history). You only won more than 7 a handful of times. He gives you all he has as a coach and you want to trash him for providing for his family. When you say he needs to go to confession, my reply is as Nathan to David, “You are that man.” It is no wonder he wants to leave. No facilities, no committment, classless fans…. what a joke.
I hope Kelly is the right choice for ND. At Saturday’s game against Pitt, he pulled it together despite problems with his qb and special teams…not like Urban Meyer, who looked befuddled by Saban’s aggressive play. Don’t know of any off-field issues for him or his team and he had done a great job at Grand Valley and Central Michigan. It’ll be tough without Clausen and Tate, but great coaches deal with those types of problems.
Bakersucks, you’re delusional if you think Cincinnati is a destination rather than a stop along the way for a good coach. Kelly’s done great things for the program. Until him, I didn’t even know they played football. You should be grateful and wish him the best. Of course he’s going to go on to bigger and better things. Who wouldn’t? It’s not like he’s been dishonest or stabbed Cincinnati in the back. I think he’s probably the best choice that ND could make.
“Thanks for the commitment coach Kelly. Way to be loyal”
Ya! Screw him. Us, as the loyal fans who ardently shelled out (what? 5 bucks a ticket) to go see our team in action, rain or shine we were in the stands. We went to all the open practices. We went to all the meet and greets. We sent get well cards to all injured players. We are presidents of the fan clubs. We went to all… wait.
The man took your turd of a school to the precipice of a national title birth and he leaves you program in impeccable shape (a place it has never even sniffed).
Heaven forbid a man want to make more money at a school with national relevance (well sort of) and try to be remembered as one of the greats.
I believe the definition for assclowns like yourself is communist. (Did you go to that class or did you skip)
Hey, robertG what happened to you hammering me about Stoops. Short term memory except when reliving the glory days, right? (typical Irish)…
All of you ripping BakerSucks miss a couple of important point, in my humble opinion. First, whenever one of these coaching situations come up I always hear the argument that the great coach helped the little bitty school. But what about the school, the players, and the community helping the great coach become great? It’s not a one way street. I used to live near Hershey, PA, and while Hershey has helped that town tremendously so have the people who create the ambiance that Hershey uses to sell what is basically fake chocolate and fake sugar. With that said, my second point is that for many of us it’s the way these coaches leave that’s the problem, not that they do leave. Look, if Kelly wants to go to Notre Dame he should have that right. If he can make more money and sees what he believes is a better opportunity, more power to him. But the guy is under contract. That’s where the arguments I always hear, comparing coaches to you and me, fall on deaf ears. It’s not the amount of money, or the visibility, it’s the contract. This guy has a contract. His team is going to be playing in one of its biggest games, with huge implications not just for football but all athletics, student recruiting, donations and alumni support, etc. For him to say he’s not sure he’ll be coaching the team for its bowl game is an insult. It’s the contract, and the responsibilities that come along with it, that is the big issue here. If any of us had a contract and tried pulling what these coaches pull we’d be fired and sued. I’m not even arguing that a coach should finish out his contract (personally I think he should, but if he negotiated an out in the contract he has the right to use that out). But he should finish out the project he’s currently working on before he moves on for another gig. Now some folks might argue that the ND job might be filled by then. I don’t think that’s relevant. He owes his current employer, not ND or any other team. That’s what I think. Old-fashioned? Maybe. But I believe it’s the right way to behave.
Who was that basketball coach you had a t Cincy, Bob Higgins, who had a graduation rate of about 15% whereas ND has a graduation rate in the top 3 every year. Kelly took your program and gave it a face and now he moves on to a better place, isn’t that all part of the American dream to make one better at what they do and be rewarded for it? Lets hope he is more like Ara than Weiss and that the program will return to the place it belongs, within the elite football programs that puts the emphasis on the student before the athlete.
In tv interviews, Kelly seems more like the kind of class guy who would resonate with Father Jenkins and Jack Swarbrick than did Weis, who always figured out a way to give a bad impression. And he has won and won big with modest talent, while Weis got miserable results from first-rate players. Kelly has done marvelous things at Cincinnati — maybe he can work some magic and be the one to stop the apparently endless slide at ND.
Sounds like a perfect fit to me–a Kelly leading the Fighting Irish.
This happens every time a successful coach leaves one program for another. Obviously, the loyal fans hate to lose a good coach but to name call or denigrate the individual is childish! We all wish to improve our stations in life…Norte Dame is and until recent years, always was a power in FOOTBALL! Sooooo, get over it….Mind you, I’m an Indiana Grad and I hope to see Indiana get back to the Rosebowl before my demise…I wish we had an AD with Norte Dames’ intent on WINNING!
It’s always a mystery when a good coach leaves a good situation, breaks a contract even, to go to a place that is yesterday’s news and where good football disappeared years ago. Curious.
It sounds a lot in here like Notre Dame can not only afford Kelly, but “deserves” him. What a load. Trashing of a perfectly good and surprisingly large university (Cincinnati) is why big-business sports is a pathetic waste of time. Cincy is my alma mater and I don’t even want it to turn into a football powerhouse if it means one day I’ll become a prick.
All of you arrogant fanatics fail to realize that your passion for team X is like rooting for Windex over Mister Clean. These are just brands. There is no loyalty to anything but money. The grand old football dynasties are like British royalty. Old news, except that they can bribe their way to continued greatness. It’s so shameless, and so obvious, and it still makes you fools feel special and proud of “your team.”
I guess college sports teams are just a series of bus stations for coaches on the way to an inevitable grand dynasty appointment…seriously, what do you even say to that? What a sad and pointless pastime.
Few things here for you gentleman …
Bobjones4heisman … You musn’t forget that Kelly’s success with the Bearcats have been with Mark Dantonio’s players … Grutza, Pike, Gilyard, Huber, Goodman, Ramsay, Barwin, and so on …
pk34 … If Kelly leaves it will be dishonest … Maybe you do not know this, but he has told his players repeatedly that he is staying at Cincinnati … Before you tell me this is because he doesn’t want them distracted know this, he told them after the Pitt game as well …
Soonerborn … I can’t wait til next fall when your boys travel to Cincy to play the Bearcats … Should be a great game … I was hoping Stoops would head to South Bend, but that does not appear to be the case …
PhillyJohn … Cincinnati is currently ranked number 1 in BCS schools with their graduation rate … I don’t understand your argument here on bringing up a coach in a totally different sport that currently coaches WVU …
Furthermore, Brian Kelly has a unique oppurtunity in Cincinnati … He is well on his way to being the Joe Paterno / Bobby Bowden of Cincinnati … We broke ground on his demands for indoor practice facilities and are currently fielding ideas from engineers on reconstruction on 1 of the oldest college stadiums in this great country … If Kelly stays with Cincinnati sure he won’t be awarded the monetary rewards that Notre Dame can offer, BUT he will continue to have the hearts of Bearcat Fans!! If he loses 4 games at Notre Dame in any particular year he will be riduculed beyond belief … In Cincy he will not have to deal with that … His wife and children love it here (they actually live in Hidden Valley, Indiana) … It has been rumored that they have said that they will not move if he takes the ND job …
Lastly, what is wrong with BakerSucks (I’m assuming his handle is in reference to Dusty)? … Where has loyalty gone and what is the point of signing a contract? Why must we all say this is how it is nowadays … Why can’t we change that? Bakersucks along with myself believe in Coach Kelly and believe he is different … Is the grass always greener on the other side? No it isn’t … Ask any of the ND coaches since Lou Holtz …
Cincinnati needs you and genuinely cares about you BK … Look hard at the decision in front of you, not just the money …
Hmmm, let’s see, monetary rewards or the love of Bearcat fans. Which should he choose? LOL, bearcat fans are no different than any other. If the program starts to tank they will scream for his head.