But my point stills stands.
In the scheme of major college football, being the head coach at CMU is small time. The MAC serves more typically as a 1st step after apprenticeships at other places under more experienced coaches. Kelly totally lacks any such learning experiences and it is one of the causes of his lackluster results he achieves at ND.
Brian Kelly's "coaching tree" is still woeful. The major weakness in Kelly's coaching background is he never coached under anyone who had success in major college football. Hence, his abysmal excuse for an offense comes from his days at Grand Valley State, honed at CMU and Cincinnati and it still isn't ready for prime time. He has zero frame of reference to how a Power 5 conference offense can work and he can't ( or is won't?) hire anyone who doesn't accept his offensive concepts. Which is why after 8 long years we have the same wack-a-do offense we did in 2010.
Note a few examples which point the the critical gap in coaching experience: Urban Meyer who also happened to coach in The Mid American Conference who before he coached a game at a Power 5 conference he had already worked for Lou Holtz and Earl Bruce: Dave Doeren, currently coach at NC St coached at Wisconsin and USC before he was a coach in the MAC and coaches now at a school that doesn't even compare in stature as ND football: PJ Fleck, who is many people's darling here, had the brains to go to a remote outpost in college football after WM to learn his craft and even he has 3 years coaching in the pros as well as a year at Ohio st. Even one of our coaching "legends" like Bob Davie coached at Pitt (Under Jackie Sherrill), Texas A&M(RC Slocum) and ND under Holtz before he graduated to head coaching.