Football coach Brian Kelly has been lured away from the undefeated, BCS ranked no. 3 Cincinnati Bearcats to coach the unranked Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Cincinnati will be playing in the Sugar Bowl without Kelly on the sidelines. Not only did Kelly quit on his school and his team, he did so before they had a chance to play in the biggest football game in school history.
This just makes no sense to me.
Granted, the job of college football coach is one of the most dishonest and corrupt professions a person can have. It’s right up there with used car salesman and military recruiter. I just don’t understand why the NCAA allows coaches to up and leave their program before the college football season is over to take another job at another school. Players cannot do that. If a player wants to leave and go to another school, he must sit out one complete season.
Brian Kelly is saying that coaching Notre Dame is his “dream job”. I wonder if he ever told the University of Cincinnati that. I don’t really quite understand the fascination so many of these white coaches have with Notre Dame. It’s just a Catholic college in Indiana that pretends to be better than every other college.
His former players at Cincinnati are both upset and hurt by the move. Kelly didn’t inform the team that he was abandoning them until after news of the hiring went public. Some are saying that he is dishonest. One former Cincinnati player said that Kelly’s actions were “cowardly”.
I cannot help but agree.
