If you didn’t get the memo, Notre Dame is having some trouble this season. There’s no need to rake it all over the coals because you don’t need the memo — you’ve watched it. Irish fans became comfortably uncomfortable with double-digit win seasons over the past five seasons and six out of the last seven. Always winning games Notre Dame should win, became a Brian Kelly trademark, but so too did losing most big games.
Brian Kelly, for all of his faults that you want to point out (and me), changed the culture of the Notre Dame football program during his tenure in South Bend.