That's what this guy...
..said about the Big House. People change their minds. I was hoping Dungy was going to change his.
Posted on 12/10/2009 2:29:07 PM PST by TonyInOhio
SOUTH BEND — The search is finally over.
According to two university sources familiar with the search process, University of Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly will be named Charlie Weis' successor at Notre Dame.
Kelly is expected to meet with his team Thursday night before the Bearcats' football banquet to inform them of his decision. The media were suddenly banned from the banquet Thursday afternoon.
Kelly, 48, is 34-6 in his third full season at UC. He is 160-54-2 in his 19th year of coaching at Cincinnati, Central Michigan and Grand Valley State.
Weis was officially fired Nov. 30 following five seasons with a 35-27 record.
“Weis was officially fired Nov. 30 following five seasons with a 35-27 record.”
I still don’t understand what took so long...
Someone told me he was pro-abortion ... do you know it that’s true?
He is a good choice!
Living here in Michigan I have been a big fan of his.
I wanted Michigan State to get him, but they made the mistake of hiring the guy Kelly replaced at Cinci.
Maybe the word has got out that Notre Dame has lost the affection of her Subway alumni. In part, the university has lost its Catholic aura, and in part because it doesn’t win.
Notre Dame has just hired a Left Wing Democrat in Kelly(he stumped for Kerry and Obama) and is very Pro abortion.
Looks like Notre Dame once again gives the finger to the Catholic Church and its belief system.
I honestly don't know, and I haven't seen that. I know Weis was a Catholic, as was Lou Holtz, but I have no idea about Bob Davie or Ty Willingham.
My guess is that Kelly's faith had little to do with the decision to hire him, for better or worse.
What was wrong with the old coach? I thought he was producing unbelievable ND teams.
This is disappointing. I was really holding out hope for Tony Dungy.
Unless a mid-20’s ex-pro baseball player is recruited, not a single teenage recruit will have memory of the glory years under Lou Holtz. That is a challenge.
Tony Dungy made it clear that he had no interest in the job very early in the process.
Winning is EVERYTHING in College Football ... And since when has Notre Dame stood for anything?
This past May .. The Magic Negro .. commencement speaker and honorary doctorate given.
Does that mean anything .... Notre Dame has not stood for much of anything in decades.
Here’s hoping that UC tells him to take a hike and doesn’t let him coach the Sugar Bowl.
I don't know about the abortion part, but I do remember reading something in the NYTs about Kelly supporting Obama. Obama made a campaign stop at UC back in 2008 - Kelly may have been on the stage with him.
As a UC alum, I am really disappointed. And right before their bowl game against the gators.
Somebody actually wrote to the people’s forum that the reason Notre Dame isn’t winning is because they added to the stadium and blocked out the Touchdown Jesus! He said if they knocked down the addition or added to the building so that Jesus is visible again...they will win again!
In all due respect to Kelly’s politics, this is about WINNING FOOTBALL games! Love him or hate him, Kelly has had success everywhere he’s gone from winning Div. II titles at Grand Valley State, winning a MAC title at Central Michigan and winning the Big East and getting two BCS bowl games at Cincy. Just wondering if he will coach Cincinnati in the bowl game ... when he left Central Michigan in 2006, he jumped ship early and coached Cincy in their bowl game and left assistant coach Jeff Quinn to coach Central Michigan in the Motor City Bowl. I wonder if he does the same this time, even though Notre Dame has decided to not go bowl-ling? Kelly certainly has his work cut out under the Golden Dome, but I think he has the track record to prove that he can get the job done in South Bend. As far as football goes, I’m a Kelly fan.
That's what this guy...
..said about the Big House. People change their minds. I was hoping Dungy was going to change his.
If Kelly acts and sounds like a politician, it’s because at heart he is one. The son of an alderman, he grew up north of Boston, in a family obsessed with politics. He was a captain of the Assumption College football team and later an assistant coach at the Massachusetts school, but he also dabbled in politics, working for a state senator and on Gary Hart’s 1984 presidential campaign. (Kelly has fond memories of driving Hart around Boston in his Ford Escort.) But Kelly isn’t just good on the stump. He is also regarded as one of the game’s brightest minds, an innovator who has transformed the Bearcats’ offense—a high-octane unit that scored its four TDs against Fresno State on drives lasting 2:12, 1:43, 2:53 and 1:45, none covering less than 71 yards—into one of the country’s most dynamic. Kelly is constantly scribbling new plays in the spiral notebooks he carries everywhere (”I have a basement full of them,” he says) and is always itching to add a wrinkle to a play. One day during practice last season Pike was standing on the sideline when Kelly walked over madly doodling in a notebook. “The idea was a version of a screen to [wideout] Mardy Gilyard, but he wanted a quick catch-and-throw where we’d let the defense through the line and our linemen get to the second level,” says Pike. That week Cincinnati used the play against Miami of Ohio, and Gilyard scored. “I can’t even count how many times we’ve scored on that play since then,” says Pike.
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