Its been 34 years since we had a national championship. Although Kelly took Notre Dame to a national championship game in 2012 that was just an illusion. The players are the ones who got there DESPITE Kelly's lousy coaching and lousy attitude. Kelly sucked as a head coach and didn't give a damn about Notre Dame or the players. The way he departed Notre Dame tesifies to that.
After 34 year of this mediocre play its high time the adminsitration gets off its collective asses and starts remembering what made Notre Dame "NOTRE DAME." Like it or niot, it was high caliber football that made Notre Dame a household name, and built that campus with all the money it brought in.
But since 1988 it appears plain to see that the administration has forgotten that, and hired lame coaches and terrible, awful ADs who have insured Notre Dame football is sub-par. And its time for the adminsitration... AND THE WEALTHY ALUMS AND DONORS... to step up and put an end to this mediocrity.
They need to hire and pay a first-rate, no-nonsense head coach and coaching staff, and then go out and recruit players who want to work their asses off to win, win, win.
Also, knock off this crap of hiring head coaches who have never been head coaches elsewhere before they came to Notre Dame. Notre Dame has done that a number of times and its always been a disaster. Hire experienced head coaches and pay them a competitive salary... for God's sake!!! THE HEAD COACH POSITION AT NOTRE DAME IS NOT, AND SHOULD NOT BE, AN "ON-THE-JOB-TRAINING" POSITION. For the love of God, knock that off once and for all!!!
They also need to ban any player from this "portal" bullshit. That has only insured players can get on a merry-go-round of switching school whenever they want... THAT is pure bullshit!!! And Notre Dame needs to make sure players there are somehow barred from engaging in it. And that CAN BE DONE! No excuses.
Get with it, Notre Dame adminsitration. Its time to clean house and get people who know what the hell they're doing!!!