Brian Kelly rejects fairy-tale endings.
When Kelly’s Notre Dame football team positioned itself last November for a potential catapult into the College Football Playoff, he jilted the Irish in favor of a richer deal from LSU. That’s no fairy tale. That’s business.
Kelly had another chance to show he’s got a gooey center while determining LSU’s starting quarterback this preseason. Sixth-year senior Myles Brennan had rejected the transfer portal’s temptations to finish his career at LSU. Injuries derailed the former starter in back-to-back seasons. Reclaiming the starting job would have been an exclamation point to Brennan’s devotion to the Tigers.