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Me. I told you that the whole sport was economically broken. by ndhouston

And I was against the stadium expansion from the get-go.

But just to be clear, I'm glad that Kelly is gone. He was never going to meet the standard at Notre Dame, which is to win a national championship. In fact right now, if the dominoes fall next week, ND has a better chance to win a national championship with an interim coach then we ever had with Kelly choking on the sideline. 2021 ND can be a football version of 1989 Michigan basketball.

With regards to college football as a whole, I am reminded of Murray Sperber's Shake Down the Thunder, where Sperber commented that college football was largely a zero-sum game, and that runners up were normally bathed in red ink. I think we are seeing the end game of that right now. Yeah, we have big money rolling at a handful of schools, but there is no way that middling programs will ever be able to keep up.

Nonetheless, I think that ND will be fine, just like we were in the 30s when the wisdom of the financial model for the new stadium was fully understood (e.g. the university sold PSLs instead of taking on debt, which meant that ND's stadium wasn't the Depression-era white elephant that other programs built). When you boil it down, the university is ~12B in a cornfield financially, which means that ND is prepared to weather the coming war of attrition when the sport shrinks to the 40-odd schools that really care. Even better, we have the luxury of choosing to not care because the UChicago/Ivy option is always available.

My recommendation is the following: sideline Jack Swarbrick, and have extensive interviews with Freeman. If he really believes all that he said about ND in the pre-season, and commits to it, then just offer him the job. Coach searches are largely crapshoots anyway.

p.s. Because of my connections in Louisiana, I do have one request of the Lady on the Dome. Louisiana is in the process of trying to revitalize the French language in the southern part of the state. My intercessory prayer request is that as part of that program, LSU hires Ed Orgeron to broadcast Brian Kelly's games in Cajun French. That would be spectacular.