6 turned down Notre Dame job?
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This. If the coaches were asked to take the job they need to come out and say something along the lines of "I prefer where I'm at right now." What a blow that would be to the pompous ND program.
KF has beat Ohio St since Michigan has (2004), not that that's saying much and even though that is his only win over tOSU. Just bored and wanted to chime in on a random fact.
I think it's great to see that there are still coaches who value those kinds of things.
I thought the searches were similar as well. The search to replace Solich was very humbling to the Nebraska program, as were the Callahan years. Looks like they've got their attitude back with Bo though.
Again, the story I had heard locally in Chicago was that Ferentz did have a discussion about the ND job, but ND did the turning down. The skeptical view was that KF was doing it to try and leverage another raise from Iowa. The ND view was that there was no way some of the big donors and Catholics would have accepted someone who's team has had as much legal trouble as KF's have. They could have dealt with the occassional legal problem, but not the number that occured in IC.
Not one of them did come out and say anything like this, or even said they were offered the job, and so I guess the logical conclusion is that they were never offered the job.
I'm pretty sure that Kelly was the only one that ND actually offered the job too. I think I read somewhere that he was the only one to even interview. Why wouldnt you at least ask that list of guys (sans Ferentz and Fitzgerald IMO) if they were remotely interested? They want the absolute best, those guys are they absolute best that are out there.
KF has his agent leak out that he is a candidate for every high profile job that comes up. He needs to get another 5 years on his contract and a raise.
They still have Rudolph, Floyd, both running backs (Hughes and Allen), and Dane Crist at QB who went down during the WSU game with a blown ACL. Hopefully Crist comes back strong. Watching him play this season, I think he has the same ability, if not more than Jimmy did. His touchdown pass against WSU was incredible, turned a 40 yard pass into a frozen rope bullet right into the receivers hands.
Kelly said he would try to talk to Golden about staying and I believe Golden was even quoted as saying he would listen to what he had to say. Doubtful that Tate would come back, but as long as he'll listen, I'm all for that. I think that there are still plenty of tools on both sides of the ball for Kelly to be successful as early as next season. Dont recall every one of the freshman recruits from last year outside of Teo, but I'm pretty sure Charlie got one or two of the top CB's as well.
Notre Dame's AD did a live press conference this afternoon on ESPN in which he stated Kelly was the first and only coach they offered the job to.
i think brian kelly will be the new notre dame coach.he is a good one and he will turn them around and be a nemisis for the big 10 teams.in two or three years ,he will build notre dame into a top rate football team. cheers and merry christmas and happy new year to everyone!!!!!!
For what it's worth....Pete Carroll was pretty far down the list when USC hired him. He turned out all right.
What was he suppose to say. Kelly really was our 4 choice. If you ask an AD on record they never get turned down.
He would have just left that part out. He seemed sincere. I'm not saying he wasn't lying just pointing out what he said in the presser.
They declined interest in the position. Youve been listening to too much ESPN. When there is a coaching vacancy at Notre Dame, of course the media is going to speculate who the next coach will be and of course since ND has to have the best available, the media will speculate. Brian Kelly was the only one who was interviewed. I believe they were going to interview Edsell but after they interviewed Kelly, they had their man.
