Notre Dame football: Kelly to be next coach

South Bend Tribune ^ | 12/10/09 | Eric Hansen

[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.

[TonyInOhio]

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!

Actually, you can see Touchdown Jesus quite easily from the stadium. My son is a student at Notre Dame and a member of the Band of the Fighting Irish. I've enjoyed several cold Saturdays in the south end of the stadium, and when you look up to see the scoreboard, you can't miss seeing Christ the Teacher there on the Library.

[mlizzy]

Someone told me he was pro-abortion ... do you know it that’s true?

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.

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Yes, Lou Holtz actually was a frequent Mass attender, and said the Rosary daily, even during football season, and Davie and Willingham were not Catholics. Weis, of course, had the players sing Notre Dame Our Mother after every home game, which was really cool, but I've been looking online and it seems Kelly just might be pro-choice, which is awful for the University. My husband is an ND grad, and we haven't given up on the school's Catholicism, but some of this news gets might depressing sometimes. And you're right; his faith had little to do with his hiring I would imagine. Wish they could bring back Holtz!

[Frantzie]

Scum school that hands out medals to muslims who promote partial birth and post birth abortions. The alumni could have shut this down. Maybe they can perform abrotions at midfield for halftime festivities playing that stupid ND song.

The liberal American Catholic Church is disgraceful. The Pope should smack down ND.

[Frantzie]

Americans are heading for islamic seerfdom because the idiots cannot put down the clicker. Sports programming keeps the liberal network and cable news alive. They would go bankrupt without morons watching ball games.

[Jane Austen]

Since Dungy came out in support of Vick, I have no respect for him. Imagine supporting a sociopath who tortures dogs.

[dfwgator]

UC Alum Urban Meyer will be very happy to give Kelly a nice sendoff.

[Radl]

I don’t think his religion would have much to do with it. Unlike BYU ND does not care what religion a person practices. I think BYU requires the head coach to be a Mormon.
Rockne was not Catholicv either as far as I know (but I believe he converted). I don’t think Parsegean is Catholic. Not sure about Devine.

[vetvetdoug]

Kelly is going to go down in the record books as another promising coach that saw his career go down the drain by taking the ND job.

[outpostinmass2]

Lou Holtz had the same issue as the last Champion Notre Dame team was 1977 when he arrived.

[jessduntno]

Presbyterian....95–17–4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era.

[mlizzy]

Yes, here's a nice post on "The Rock," mentioning his conversion.

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What I don't like is that Kelly is a Catholic who is pro-choice. If he was another faith that believed in abortion, it wouldn't bother me as much ... but there's nothing worse than a p***-poor Catholic.

[Kimmers]

Wonderful......hearing that makes me like Notre Dame even less, if that is possible......

[Tazlo]

Let’s start praying for him. It’s the only thing we can change and Our Lady works in mysterious ways.

[mlizzy]

Let’s start praying for him. It’s the only thing we can change and Our Lady works in mysterious ways.

Bingo! Couldn't agree with you more. In fact, years ago my husband started up a small group of ND grads/subway alumni to pray and suffer for Notre Dame.

You might like these articles as well:

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[fso301]

Lou Holtz had the same issue as the last Champion Notre Dame team was 1977 when he arrived.

I disagree. The 1980 team which was Dan Devine's last was 9-2-1 and went to the Sugar Bowl. Faust was only there between 1981–1985 before Lou Holtz took over in 1986.

A 17 year old recruited by Holtz would have had clear memory of the Dan Devine years.

A 17 year old recruited by Kelly will have no memory of watching great Notre Dame teams.

[TonyInOhio]

My husband is an ND grad, and we haven't given up on the school's Catholicism, but some of this news gets might depressing sometimes.

I know the feeling - my son is a student at Notre Dame. We were just furious when Obama was invited, but not surprised - Fr. Jenkins is a liberal before he's a priest, in my opinion.

wish they could bring back Holtz!

Agreed!

[TonyInOhio]

UC Alum Urban Meyer will be very happy to give Kelly a nice sendoff.

They've announced that Kelly will not be coaching the bowl game.

I thought your Gators were going to be playing Texas for all the marbles. As a Buckeye fan, I was glad to see Meyer look so sad after a game, for a change.

[dfwgator]

At least Charlie Strong is staying on as DC for the game before heading off to Louisville.

[mlizzy]

Congrats to your son. What year is he? Our daughter was unable to get in even with the "family name," but I think it's in part because her father writes scathing posts about ND's "management" sometimes. Anyway, our niece is a freshman there which is nice.

I saw you said your son was in the band. He might appreciate this short video (that was taken after a number of beers so excuse the focus), but it was great because it "fit" right in with a post his dad did. Some things just work out so well; of course, ND lost this one which wasn't fun ... but ...

[pburgh01]

Go on over to IrishIllustrated.com and open a thread like this. The CINOs are out in full force there defending Kelly. Notre Dame whored itself out long ago as a Catholic institution to political correctness and the culture. Their faculty and more importantly a majority of the student body is comprised of wayward Catholics and secular humanists. Notre Dame fans have taken a sick obsession of living vicariously through their football team to a new level. If Satan himself were to coach and promise a BCS championship, Notre Dame would offer him a 6 year deal with a fat Nike endorsement contract.