Before I start this blog, let me assure you that I understand the business part of college football and I know why coaches take certain jobs and move on.

What really fires me up though, is when a guy like Brian Kelly abandons his team!

Yes, I realize that Notre Dame is a better job than Cincinnati and I don’t blame him for taking the job. What gets to me though, is that he is leaving his team immediately…right before they are about to play the biggest game of their season. You just don’t do that! Evidently, the only loyalty that is left in the world of sports is to one’s wallet. Kelly left his team hanging out to dry! It’s extremely wrong for him to do that!

Notre Dame has been a coaching graveyard for the last decade or more. Whether or not Kelly can change that or whether it is a good business decision is not the point. The point is that you don’t leave guys who have fought and have given you everything they have right before their biggest game…and a BCS game at that!

Kelly thanking his players for getting him the opportunity to coach at Notre Dame is just a stunt to try and cover up his wrong doings. He knows what he did was wrong and he has no way to truly justify his decision. It’s people like him who have no true commitment to the players that really get me frustrated. They only think of money! Money is not everything, especially when it causes you to betray the young men who have given you their all!

UC’s wide receiver, Mardy Gilyard, had this to say about Kelly’s move:  “I didn’t want to hear it. I’m fairly disgusted with the situation — him letting it last this long. Everybody and their mamma knew what was going on. I feel like he did our team an injustice. Hopefully he’ll pack his things up and get to South Bend in a hurry.”

Kelly said that he handled the situation with honesty and dignity. Kelly, you have to be a complete moron to believe that you dealt with any part of this with honesty and dignity!

Brian Kelly did an interview with a radio station about two weeks before he was announced as head coach at Notre Dame, and said that he was not leaving Cincinnati. HELLO! That is a lie, Mr. Kelly, so that statement takes away the honesty part of how you handled the situation.

Next, he never told his players that he got the job. They had to hear it via the media. How classless is that?

Obviously, Mr. Kelly is saying one thing and doing another. Not meeting with his players first definitely takes out the dignity part of how he handled the situation. Brian Kelly has done nothing but lie to his players and the country about all of this. How can anyone trust him, especially players?

I’m not saying that Kelly shouldn’t have taken the new job, but he could have waited until after the BCS bowl game. He could have been loyal to his team and shown the same commitment to his players that he demanded from them all season.

That being said, I still wish all the luck in the world to Brian Kelly at Notre Dame and to the players he has left behind in Cincinnati.

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