Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly met the media in a very non-traditional way Wednesday as he updated the world on everything related to the Notre Dame football program. If you’d like, you can check out that entire press conference that took place over Zoom, here.
One of the several things Kelly was asked and spoke about was the status of the season-opener that is supposed to take place in Ireland the last Saturday of August. Will Notre Dame and Navy be making the trip?
“We’re having discussions with that,” Kelly said. “Clearly, we can’t just wait until May 15 to have the first discussion about going overseas, so those discussions are taking place.”
“We’re looking at all options at this time. We’d like to play the game in Ireland; whether we can or not, that it still a topic that’s being discussed.”
Clearly there are more trying events going on and more pressing issues than if a football game ends up being played or not. Hearing Kelly say that though and perhaps because I’ve been watching too much news lately (don’t do that, it will literally drive you insane) but compared to a week ago I’m not gaining confidence about the chances of football going off as regularly scheduled.
And I wasn’t exactly the most-optimistic about it a week ago, here’s to hoping I’m wrong.