Brian Kelly has changed a lot of things in South Bend since his hiring as the head coach of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in December of 2009. Many of those changes have to do with the play on the field or the way the Irish recruit, but there are also many MANY changes that we have seen under his reign that involve a wider array of things at Notre Dame.
We have fieldturf, a jumbotron, the jerseys have changed, the helmets have changed, and of course... Notre Dame’s attitude towards rivalry trophies have changed.
Even as recently as 2005, many Irish fans had no idea Notre Dame even had some of these rivalry trophies when then head coach Charlie Weis said as much after the 2005 loss to the Michigan State Spartans.