I was never a Kelly fan, but the emoting about him leaving was a bit over the top. He had hit his ceiling and a place where it is much easier to win a chip was offering him double his money for a long time. Oh by the way, it was an immediate take it or leave it. I don’t blame him at all for taking it but the slime ball way he did it like the way we took him from Cinci was reprehensible.
It’s also just a more transactional world since the days of Ara and Holtz. These guys are lizard people who sell themselves to the highest bidder. Just a fact of bidness and it is a very big bidness. It’s a sharkpool and Kelly is clearly one as he demonstrated 12 years ago when we poached him. Trying to balance the ideals of Notre Dame in that venue while staying competitive is a very difficult undertaking.