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.
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.
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.
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.
UC Alum Urban Meyer will be very happy to give Kelly a nice sendoff.
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.
Presbyterian....95–17–4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era.
Wonderful......hearing that makes me like Notre Dame even less, if that is possible......
Let’s start praying for him. It’s the only thing we can change and Our Lady works in mysterious ways.
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.
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!
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.
At least Charlie Strong is staying on as DC for the game before heading off to Louisville.
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.
Thanks! My son is in his fourth year - he's in the School of Architecture, which is a five-year program, so he'll be back on the field for one more year.
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.
I enjoyed seeing that, thanks. The Band (all 380 of them) really becomes like a family within the Notre Dame Family. It's been wonderful for us to be associated with such a great tradition.
Notre Dame was my son's dream school, and despite the liberals running the place, he still loves it. We live in a tiny Ohio town and are most definately middle-class; I'm proud of my son for being admitted and am grateful he had the opportunity.
Respectfully, you're wrong. My son is a student at Notre Dame, and I've seen the chapels packed with students and the Eucharistic Procession that takes place each Holy Week.
Notre Dame is, indeed, a college, not a seminary. They have a mix of students, Catholic, and not, faithful, and not. But the traditions of the place live on, despite being run by a bunch of liberals.
This story came up before (1-2 weeks?) and it turned out false. Kelly was said to be staying at Cincy.
Like I said a majority of the student body and faculty are pro-choice cafeteria Catholics. You really wanna argue that? The place is a liberal cesspool like almost all the other big name schools. Lots of pious Catholic universities in the US, Notre Dame is no longer on of them. Should have sent your kid to Michigan saved 10k a year and gotten a better education.
They aren’t winning because they dropped their wrestling program to keep NCAA investigators from looking into the athletic dept as a whole. At least that is the reason I like.
For the past 15 years Notre Dame has cared little for actually putting excellence on the field. They are not willing to pay the price, nor hire the coach. Some of it has to do with lowering admissions standards. They would prefer we alums shell out the money to see 8-4 or 6-6 teams play each Saturday.
My patience is running thin.
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Thanks for the tip, but he's getting a swell education where he is. We actually visited Michigan when he was looking at schools; we left unimpressed, and unless you're in-state, their financial aid sucks. Notre Dame's School of Architecture is rated much higher, too. Of course, they were working hard to reinstitute affirmative action at the time, so that didn't sit well, either. You'd be hard-pressed to find a more liberal town than Ann Arbor!
Besides, as a Buckeye, the idea was, simply, repellent.
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