That will be fun if both Cincy and ND make the playoffs. Let Fickell coach the first half with Cincy and the second half with ND?

The average NFL coach makes $6.7 million. There were four such college coaches three weeks ago making that much. Now there are 8. Source: USA Today coaches salaries database.

— Dennis Dodd (@dennisdoddcbs) November 30, 2021

In Louisiana

At a meeting about sexual assault kits, the estimate to build out a statewide kit tracking system is $6 m to $10 m.

Head of the meeting says: "Well, we are paying our new football coach $100 million so we should be able to spare $6 million for sexual assault victims." #lalege

— Julie O'Donoghue (@JSODonoghue) November 30, 2021

Via SportsLine oddsmakers:

Who will be the next Notre Dame full-time football coach?

Marcus Freeman Even
Luke Fickell +200
Matt Campbell +500
Pat Fitzgerald +900
Mark Stoops +1000
Jeff Brohm +1500
Matt Rhule +1800
Bob Stoops +2000
Urban Meyer +2500https://t.co/TtjmMgoSod

— SportsLine (@SportsLine) November 30, 2021

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Just 7 days ago Brian Kelly was asked if he would ever leave Notre Dame aside from retirement.

Here's what he said. On to LSU pic.twitter.com/pnJj9vFxJC

— Rick Tarsitano (@RickTarsitano) November 30, 2021

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Guess LSU came dressed as a fairy godmother

So, yeah, this is not a misprint: Brian Kelly receives a $500,000 bonus each season if #LSU is bowl eligible. Holy sh*t. (the Tigers made a bowl for 20 straight seasons before last year)

His annual max incentive total (which would include SEC, national titles, etc) is.. ~$1.35M. https://t.co/qomlKe7rYQ

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 1, 2021

Dennis gets at the heart of the matter here.

If a coach has reached the point where he feels that playing for a national championship isn't worth his time, then what are we even doing here. https://t.co/BpAknJFfZQ

— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) November 30, 2021

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The idyllic scene of a pleasant afternoon in a small collegiate setting of people milling around among the falling leaves of red and gold, just happening to attend a football game which will only be seen by those attending where the focus of the day is not football, but on everything else about a college experience....education, friendships, budding romances, caring professors, and the dance that night. Football was just an activity no more important than anything else. The player's time was 90% academics and 10% football. A scene that was widely depicted in movies in the 30s.

Now with a deeper investigation, that described above is not really the way it was. Like many things we look back on, it wasn't as idyllic as we would like to think it was. But except perhaps in really small colleges (those no bigger than small high schools), the situation today is the polar opposite of that described above.

Because of money, greed of networks and grown adults basing their perceived worth of themselves being tied to the success of a bunch of college students playing a game, the public perceptions of many universities are based not upon their academic standing and achievements, but on their won-loss record on the football field. If you are not one of the winners, you are a bottom feeder, classified as "lowly", or otherwise relegated to the worthless category. And oh by the way, if you attend that school or are an alumni, you are just as irrelevant in many people's eyes as your losing football team.

That is not how it should be, but it seems the horses are out of the barn. No, the scene described above was probably never the complete picture of life, but it is sad that we have gotten so far off track that we seem to have lost any semblance of sanity concerning what amateur sports should entail, and certainly what the prime emphasis of a university should be about.

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Money talks. That is why some 23 year old that bought crypto in 2017 now has more say politically than people that actually spent their lives operating the world. If you have enough money in today's America or know the right politicians you can set policy with no idea what you are talking about. Just write the check. Watch next step for these guys is politics, because they Coach a game played by teenagers?

LMFAO at this ******. Just wait until he has LSU #5 in the polls and leaves for the job at Bama the week before the final rankings.

Tiger fans aren't like ND fans. Football is their religion and if he whiffs on them, just wow.

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LMFAO at this ******. Just wait until he has LSU #5 in the polls and leaves for the job at Bama the week before the final rankings.

Tiger fans aren't like ND fans. Football is their religion and if he whiffs on them, just wow.

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Saban did.

?. Saban left LSU for NFL Miami Dolphins, not Bama..

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?. Saban left LSU for NFL Miami Dolphins, not Bama..

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He left them pretty much high and dry. It was a surprise that he bolted after winning. Sometimes you guys can be really literal on here. Did all of you graduate from the Hankamer School in Accounting??? Sometimes I feel like I am either posting with a bunch of Accountants or Lawyers! Think accuracy of trend, not precision....

Tough friggin crowd...

Four minutes. That's how long former Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly spent at 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning explaining his decision to leave the school for LSU.

Part 2

This is it. A 4 min total video pic.twitter.com/a0Lh5O0Uk2

— Chief (@BarstoolChief) December 1, 2021

Jack Bauer said:

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Four minutes. That's how long former Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly spent at 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning explaining his decision to leave the school for LSU.

Part 2

This is it. A 4 min total video pic.twitter.com/a0Lh5O0Uk2

— Chief (@BarstoolChief) December 1, 2021

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At least that's a minute and 47 seconds longer than it took NCSt to come back from 9 down against UNC.....

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LOL he said "trust" How can anyone trust him?

No kidding

don't act like you wouldn't fake a southern accent for $95 million https://t.co/UyqNxRDCYc

— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) December 3, 2021

Players and fans will sniff our inauthenticity….he just needs to be himself

*Brian Kelly takes Miami job in 2025*

"....mi familia"

— bring 'em back (@trashtaeks) December 3, 2021

Brian Kelly after two days at LSU pic.twitter.com/50oXBHBm0u

— Josiah Johnson (@KingJosiah54) December 3, 2021

Nick Saban congratulates southern Brian Kelly pic.twitter.com/oFqmdMEBL6

— Joey (@JoeyMulinaro) December 3, 2021

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Seems like a stupid move by Kelly.

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Change of scenery and he probably had reached his ceiling at ND. It isn't the juggernaut it once was.

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When was it a juggernaut? When it was going 11-1 under Holtz? It's been going 11-1 under Kelly for years.

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In recent memory? The period from the late 1980s through the early 1990s under Holtz that generated their last NC and heisman. But that may be the point. That's not recent memory anymore I guess as we're rapidly approaching the 40 year mark since those things happened...which would be the same amount of time that separated those good ND teams from the great Army teams of the World War II era. But the tribal identity that drove ND's greatness in the 20th century is all but dead. The largest religious group in America in 2021, if such a thing were to be counted, are ex-Roman Catholics. WIthout that identity and its gridiron success, ND becomes just another midwestern private school.

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Seems like a stupid move by Kelly.

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Change of scenery and he probably had reached his ceiling at ND. It isn't the juggernaut it once was.

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When was it a juggernaut? When it was going 11-1 under Holtz? It's been going 11-1 under Kelly for years.

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In recent memory? The period from the late 1980s through the early 1990s under Holtz that generated their last NC and heisman. But that may be the point. That's not recent memory anymore I guess as we're rapidly approaching the 40 year mark since those things happened...which would be the same amount of time that separated those good ND teams from the great Army teams of the World War II era. But the tribal identity that drove ND's greatness in the 20th century is all but dead. The largest religious group in America in 2021, if such a thing were to be counted, are ex-Roman Catholics. WIthout that identity and its gridiron success, ND becomes just another midwestern private school.

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The point is the Kelly years we're about the same as the Holtz years with the exception of the one NC. And Holtz was able to ease the academic requirements for Notre Dame. When he left, they put them back in place.

If Brian Kelly took the Miami job:
pic.twitter.com/5pQinxkjYS

— Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz (@LeBatardShow) December 7, 2021

Breaking: Massive news out of #LSU.

Brian Kelly is hiring McNeese State HC and former LSU assistant Frank Wilson to his staff in Baton Rouge.

When it comes to recruiting the state of Louisiana, Wilson’s one of the best to ever do it.https://t.co/3lzHfjZ9rC pic.twitter.com/IpONjztZk8

— Shea Dixon (@Sheadixon) December 7, 2021

Brian Kelly was not happy with a reporter for being late to todays press conference.

The reporter responded “maybe if you win, I’ll be on time”

Absolutely brutal 48 hours for Brian Kelly. pic.twitter.com/PzgHcQQHJ9

— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 7, 2022

I don't follow ND closely but BK has never seemed like someone I'd want to play for. Seems a mega fraud

ive heard that he is just an arrogant jerk. Will be a good fit for Texas when LSU fires him, if not for his record, but for his face southern accent and cringy dance skills

Had to pay my debts today. $10 toward our postseason media party. pic.twitter.com/s32QSqp40Q

— Brian Kelly (@CoachBrianKelly) September 12, 2022