The Inside Story Of Brian Kelly's Stunning Exit From Notre Dame
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It's been a wild week for Notre Dame football: The winningest coach in program history abruptly left for another job, then the school named his successor just a few days later, and on Sunday the Irish narrowly missed out on a College Football Playoff berth. Today, The Athletic's Pete Sampson joins us to talk about Brian Kelly's fateful final 24 hours in South Bend, what his exit to LSU reveals about the state of college football, and what comes next for the team he left behind.
Read Pete Sampson's story about Brian Kelly's final 24 hours with Notre Dame: https://theathletic.com/2990740/2021/12/01/inside-the-24-hours-that-rocked-notre-dame-football-and-where-the-irish-go-from-here-without-brian-kelly/
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| 0:46.0 | It has been a roller coaster of a week for Notre Dame football. |
| 0:53.0 | It has been a roller coaster of a week for Notre Dame football. |
| 0:58.0 | Who's number four? The Bearcats is sitting at us. |
| 1:01.0 | Special! I think can you hear that celebration coming out of Cincinnati? |
| 1:05.0 | The fighting Irish narrowly miss out on the college football playoff just days after receiving some stunning news. |
| 1:12.0 | Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly is expected to be the next head coach at LSU. |
| 1:17.0 | Kelly has spent the last 12 seasons as the head coach of the Irish people. |
| 1:21.0 | Today, the Athletics Pete Samson on why Brian Kelly left while his team was still in the playoff hunt? |
| 1:27.0 | And what the move revealed about the state of the sport? |
| 1:30.0 | I think what is rotten about college football right now is the timing of it. |
| 1:34.0 | To leave during the season because of that expirated recruiting calendar, |
| 1:38.0 | that makes it an impossible situation for these schools and coaches and programs to sort of do the right thing. |
| 1:46.0 | Plus, how Notre Dame is now moving forward as it gets set to face Oklahoma State in the fiesta bowl? |
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