re: OMG Brian Kelly had three servings of the home-cooked burnt ends!!!

This media hate for Kelly is the weirdest thing I've seen in sports. I keep seeing people posting that it's about the media's love for Notre Dame, and blah, blah, blah. I know, they do love them some Notre Dame, but they also love them some USC, and I don't remember Pete Carrol getting this much hate for leaving them for the NFL. Maybe they did, and I just didn't care enough to remember it.

This is just bizarre. The guy spent 12 years there. It wasn't like Saban signing a bit fat contract with LSU and then leaving the very next year, having spent only five years there. I always think it's low of coaches when they sign big contracts and then just bolt. This Kelly situation isn't like that, at all.

Frankly, I was, and still am very lukewarm on the hire. I just don't know what he has in the tank at 60 years old, to do this kind of job. Maybe it's a lot. We'll see. But you have to admit that it takes some guts to walk away from a cushy job where people are happy to accept just not sucking (what a mindset), and walk into the SEC at a place like LSU where the expectations are boiling over at all times.

We saw how quickly Saban gave up on the NFL, when he saw it wasn't as easy as he hoped it'd be, and we see how Urban Meyer can't stay anywhere for long. Kelly gave it 12 years, and has unquestionably taken a better AND more difficult job.