Friday really marks the beginning of the 10th year of Brian Kelly’s reign in South Bend. Kelly is the absolute outlier when it comes to football coaches for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Nine years into the job and Kelly has still not won a national championship despite two 12-0 regular seasons.
At Notre Dame, coaches usually don’t last longer than 5 years without a title, and regardless of a ring on a finger — a decade is a really long time. Kelly has a 81-34 record with Notre Dame (.704) with his bowl record at 4-4 with no major NY6 bowl wins.