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After Notre Dame’s season-ending loss to USC on Saturday dropped the Fighting Irish’s record to 4-8, both Yahoo!
That’s not exactly the case in 2016, with fortune smiling brightly on the Trojans lately while the Irish of the Irish seems to have run out. Kelly didn’t return with the team to South Bend after the loss on Saturday, but acknowledged he’s coming back early.
Notre Dame returns to the Coliseum this weekend to wrap up its worst season in a decade, reeling from new NCAA sanctions and worrying about the storied program’s future.
A little after 3:30 a.m., Eastern Time on Sunday, Kelly tried to put to rest reports from Yahoo Sports and ESPN claiming the embattled Notre Dame head football coach, through representatives, had been exploring coaching options outside of Notre Dame.
This is all about academic misconduct related to a student athletic trainer and some of coach Brian Kelly’s football players from the two seasons cited by the NCAA, and the trainer doing schoolwork for the football players. Nobody thought they were going to the championship game, or even to the College Football Playoff this season. “That rivalry has been going on 100 years, and it’s less than 20 times. But on the other side of it, you can’t be surprised that when you go 4-8, that you’re going to get those questions asked as well”.
Kelly removed Tillery from the game after the penalty and said he could face further discipline for his conduct, though Kelly was not asked specifically about the incident involving Ware. I think it’s kind of a mixed bag. In 2014, I felt like I was the point person.
SLOW FINISHES: If USC can get out to a quick start, the Irish could be in trouble.
Kizer did say the disappointing year gives him plenty of hard tape to review and situations he could learn from, trying to take some positives from a bad situation. I had a conversation with him. “I did that with Jerry”. “Jerry is a good kid. We’ll take a look at it”.
However, referees said that they had not signaled for the start of the play and reversed the call. It has been a more successful tenure (six bowl appearances) than any since Lou Holtz, who coached his last game in 1996. “They were a confident bunch when they came in”, Kelly said recently of his young defensive secondary. “His escapability, his ability to throw on the run, his accuracy, I don’t see anything there that is anything short of brilliant in terms of how he is playing right now”. The puff has infiltrated the point spread and made the Trojans untenable. Every other defeat this season was by eight points or less. Further complicating matters for Notre Dame is that only last December did they finish paying former coach Charlie Weis for his buyout, including compensation of over $18.9 million, even though he was sacked back in 2009.
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“All we have in front of us is USC”, Kizer said Tuesday. “I stepped up in the pocket and got aggressive on the ball”. It really wasn’t much for me. “My focus was on the football team”.
