Brian Kelly

[mhall]

Gotta strike while that iron's hot. You still think ND would be interested in him after a blowout loss to Florida? Not saying that's going to happen, but could. Perhaps the job would have been filled by the time the Sugar Bowl rolls around. There's no good way this was going to go down.

Think Greg Schiano wishes he would have taken a higher profile job when the opportunity was there several years ago?

Not the case at all. The deal was already made basically and he had been offered and accepted the job. Notre Dame isn't going to back out of a deal because of a bowl loss. His record at Cincy is like 37 and 4 or something, that's pretty dang strong.

[psprowler]

What I'm saying is that the ND coaching job would have been filled by the beginning of 2010. What other options existed besides these:

1. Sign with Notre Dame and begin immediately
2. Continue with the Bearcats thru the Sugar Bowl and hope that the job was still open afterwards.

You're not going to sign a contract and then manage to keep it a secret for weeks. Unless your players were present at the contract signing there's no way they are going to be the first ones to know with todays news cycles.

Players and fans are going to be pizzed - there's no good way to go about doing this.

[bigrod]

I think the main factor he is not coaching Cin. and is off to ND before the bowl game is for one reason. RECRUITING!!! The man needs to head out and start recruiting and you can not do that for the next 30 days if you are coming up with a game plan and practices for a team you are not a part of anymore. Seriously who can b;ame this guy for taking the job, he knows even if he gets fired after couple seasons ND has the money to buy him out or pay his contract in full like they did WEIS. I don't know the contract details but I will guess he's going from one mill a yer to about 3 mill a year. Seriously what would you do. And to answer your question I don't feel you can ever have enough money in this world we live in!

[mhall]

I think alot of guys missed the point. There was a better way to do this than the one he chose. They are slamming him on some of the blogs and Athletic publications right now. He better get out of Cinncinnati while he's still vertical.

Class fellas, Class it's a lost art in today's society I'm afraid. The job was there, they were NOT going to yank the rug out from under his feet for a Bowl loss. His players want his head on a stick right now, what does that say about how he did it.