Everywhere that Brian Kelly has coached football, he has won. He won an NCAA Div. II National Title at Grand Valley St., he took Central Michigan from total obscurity to winning the MAC Championship, and now he has guided Cincinnati to an undefeated season and into a BCS bowl, the Sugar Bowl, to play the Florida Gators.
The man knows how to coach and how to recruit. He is an offensive innovator. He will go out and get the best talent he can find because he is a great salesman and has a great winning track record. I don't think we will be talking about Brian Kelly losing his job at Notre Dame 5 years from now. The only obstacle he will have to somehow overcome is the high academic standards at Notre Dame. Not all of the players Kelly wants to play for the Irish can qualify academically, and he will have to replace Jimmy Clausen and Golden Tate. Again, however, there is no doubt in my mind that he can do that. Lou Holtz did it some 20 years ago. There are great Catholic high schools in America that have student =athletes who can get it done both in the classroom and on the football field. Marist High School in Atlanta is one of them. The school has a great reputation academically and athletically, in particular football.
T sum it up, Brian Kelly will have the Fighting Irish competing for a national title in about two to three years. He just needs to get more talent on the defensive side of the ball.
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