Tommy Rees is staying as the offensive coordinator of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish after a chaotic few days that saw Brian Kelly leave for the LSU Tigers and Marcus Freeman named as the new head coach in South Bend.
That wasn’t going to be the case on that Monday and Tuesday before we found out the Freeman news. There was a plane ready for Tommy Rees to go to Baton Rogue — and he said he almost left for LSU. In the end he said he felt the “university was under attack” and that he stayed to “fight for Notre Dame.