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I hope I’ll be accepted here. I’m an “ancient”” Double Domer and have seen ‘em all, back to the Leahy days. I live in Michigan, driving distance from ND. Never missed a home game for over 45 years (except for three years in USMC) and have two of my three kids (one outlier) holding ND decrees…so, I hope you’ll let me join in in…Here’s my take, FWIW:

Applaud Kelly for what he did. It can’t be denied that he rebuilt a moribund program. And thank Jack Swarbrick for hiring him. But that’s it… Now down to the brass tacks. Kelly is the quintessential Boomer brat…an “all-about-me” prick, with no real feeling for or understanding of Notre Dame, of right or wrong, or of his own limitations. But because of the new norms, where values have been redefined by those to whom the old rules apparently seem frightening, Kelly and the others like him not only survive but laugh at the rest of us, and do very well for themselves… That’s the world now. So, adios, BK…Enjoy the gumbo…and as for us? Why, we just move on, leaving Kelly in the trail dust behind us. We have a coach, Kelly will be forgotten… And ND will still be ND…