As the 2009 college football season came to end for the players of Notre Dame, the off season festivities had just begun. The Notre Dame Fighting Irish fired Coach Charlie Wise after the second straight five hundred season and third straight season without a winning record. Since the firing Notre Dame has been on a hunt for the right guy to finally put Notre Dame back on the map. Rumors swarmed of the possibility of hiring coaching names like Urban Meyer, Bob Stoops, John Gruden, or Tony Dungy. All these names swirled around but for the most part none of these coaches showed the least bit of interest. One name which interested Notre Dame was Brian Kelly who had taken an unranked Cincinnati Bear Cats team at the beginning of the year to an undefeated season, a number three national ranking, and a BCS bowl berth. As Brian Kelly found out that Notre Dame showed interest in him he also hinted at interest in taking the head coaching position at Notre Dame. So great pleasure was found when yesterday Notre Dame announced the hiring of Brian Kelly as their knew head football coach.
Brian Kelly has been successful wherever he has coached in college football previously. He coached at Grand Valley State University and put them on the map. He then went on to Central Michigan. At Central he recruited Dan LeFevour who has been named as one of the greatest college quarterbacks of all time. He also turned Central into a prestigious program. After turning Central into a top notch program he moved to Cincinnati. In his third year at Cincinnati he led his team to undefeated season and was a Texas field goal away from making it to the National Championship. Now he has the head coaching job at Notre Dame. Brian Kelly has proclaimed this job oprrertunity as his dream job. Notre Dame is looking to get back on the map. They need a coach who knows how to win football games and who else but the man who has previously put three programs on the map. Brian Kelly will have little room for error in his career here at Notre Dame. Not even in his first year will he be able to get away with losing to many games due to the fact that Notre Dame has a lot of talent on their roster. Now all we can do is wait and hope that Brian Kelly is the luck the Fighting Irish need to get back to the National Championship.
If you can re-call Charlie Wise came in with just as much hype and potential and just as much if not more impressive back ground. Charlie took the program down, and all the talent fled. Its gonna take more then luck for Notre Dame to have a winning season this year.
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