Here is a 2015 article from ND Insider on Brian Kelly & his O.C hiring philosophy

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September 1, 2015

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SOUTH BEND — It sounds like a promising sitcom pilot or maybe just the exhuming of an old one.

Three’s Company?

That’s the company line at least that Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly is selling about how offensive play-calling will shake down in 11th-ranked ND’s season opener with Texas Saturday night at Notre Dame Stadium (7:30 EDT; NBC-TV) — and for the foreseeable future.

“We are going to collaborate,” Kelly said Tuesday at a meeting with the media.

The “we” in the equation are first-year offensive coordinator Mike Sanford, long-time Kelly confidant and assistant head coach/wide receivers coach Mike Denbrock and Kelly.

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In his previous 24 seasons as a college head coach, Kelly has largely called his own plays. A one-year deviation in 2013 to former offensive coordinator Chuck Martin, now the head coach at Miami (Ohio), is a notable exception.

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Kelly’s hiring of the 33-year-old from Sanford’s alma mater Boise State represents a notable departure in the way the Irish head coach has done business when it comes to hiring coaches so close to the offensive decision-making process.

Familiarity has been Kelly’s comfort zone. This time he intentionally moved away from that.

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