How much thanks should a former Notre Dame football head coach get for a magical 2024 run?

Let’s get this out of the way before all the hype and hoopla about Notre Dame football in the College Football Playoff national championship gets away over the next eight days.

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Notre Dame has never played this late into January. Notre Dame (14-1) has never played so many games in one season. Notre Dame has never won so many. Reasons for it run in every direction. A dynamic head coach. A solid staff. A roster that has refused to flinch for more than 128 days now.

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All have helped Notre Dame get to the brink of winning something that it hasn’t won since 1988. Many can be acknowledged for making this season from nowhere go somewhere, including someone whose name still moves the meter in an angry/aggravated way around Notre Dame.

Brian Kelly.

Before spit-taking your favorite morning or afternoon or evening beverage at the thought of back-slapping BK, before you fire off an email of disagreement with several #$% words included, keep reading. Don’t stop. Not yet. Hear this column out.

Thank you, Brian Kelly, for believing it best that you had to move to the Southeastern Conference to chase your elusive Division I national championship.

Thank you, Brian Kelly, for helping the Notre Dame administration understand that it had to be surgeon-like serious about football.

Thank you, Brian Kelly, for offering Notre Dame football a chance to reset. And restart.

And thank you, Brian Kelly, for taking a chance in 2021 on an up-and-coming 35-year-old defensive coordinator that many wanted fired (or at least, demoted) at halftime of his first freakin’ game that Labor Day Monday night at Florida State in 2021.

Little did we know that not even four…

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Author : South Bend Tribune

Publish date : 2025-01-12 15:41:00

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