And he was clearly wrong

Staples barely looks at ND as a program that can do even what it has done the last 5 years, let alone win a championship, and it was clear in his view of the Kelly hot-seat talk in '16.

At that time, Kelly hadn't done much to recommend him in 7 seasons outside of a vacated 12-0 season, yet he felt talk of moving on was lunacy. His view of our ceiling comes from an SEC-centric POV, and I'm guessing even his most optimistic view of Kelly's next 5 years after '16 wouldn't have approached what actually happened.