re: AD forces Brian Kelly to fire defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder

Yeah, I initially thought Abu was delusional early in this thread because I'm thinking, are they really going to do much better than BK? It seemed natural having a fiery Irish guy in there, but the style may not be a good fit, and he seems to be uncomfortable under the microscope. Bottom line, BK is a good coach, but probably needs to be somewhere else a little lower profile. It's easy to be a swinging dick at CMU or Cincy, not so much at ND.

Funny how timing works out. I would have killed for BK (and Les!) at Michigan, but it just didn't quite work for when he was available -- I also read at some point that Michigan had concerns about BK's drinking or something.

ND is playing with some fire by getting rid of him, though. Michigan eventually lucked out with Harbaugh, but it took a lot of pain to get to the point where they could get him there. Could be a decade of 6-6 football coming. I wouldn't bail on him for one bad season, but if these are systemic problems, then that's an issue.