looks like you are finally getting it. What took so long.
Brian Kelly never once said he wasn't going to ND. He was honest, told his kids face to face in a timely manner. Is that What Petrino did?
The Cincy players don't seem to think Kelly was so up front about it.
The players had off this week to take final exams. They spent a big part of it talking and texting each other about all the rumors involving Kelly. How they finally got the news left some of them bitter. Kelly's hiring by Notre Dame had already been reported for several hours when he finally took them aside after their football banquet at a downtown hotel and told them the news on Thursday night.
It's not how he had told them he would handle it.
"He told us from the get-go that we'd be the first people to know whatever he decides,'' quarterback Tony Pike said before the banquet.
Instead, they were among the last.
Receiver Mardy Gilyard, who was honored as the team's Most Valuable Player, said younger players were angry over Kelly's decision to leave after only three years at Cincinnati.
"They feel they bought into a situation they were going to be in for the long haul, and now the general kind of let the reins go,'' Gilyard said. "It is what it is. I'm old enough to know it's a business move. If I was a younger guy, I'd be bummed out about it.''
Several players said there was silence as Kelly told them in an unemotional tone that he was leaving for Notre Dame. Then, the assistant coaches left the room and the players met by themselves.
Once again, I don't disagree with anything Kelly or any other coach does when changing jobs. I'd just like a little more consistency with the media coverage from the world wide leader.