Brian Polian, Notre Dame’s assistant head coach and special teams coordinator appears to be headed to join Brian Kelly at LSU. Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports and The Athletic presented the news on Twitter on Tuesday morning.
SOURCE: Notre Dame special teams coordinator Brian Polian is expected to join Brian Kelly’s staff at LSU. Polian has SEC coaching experience from his time as STC at Texas A&M.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) December 7, 2021
As Feldman points out, Polian has experience from the time he spent at Texas A&M, albeit for just one season in 2012. There a few other things about losing Polian that interest me the most from Notre Dame’s perspective.
As has been well-discussed by many, Marcus Freeman brings no head coaching experience to his new role. That’s not to say it’ll be the Achilles heal to his ultimate success at Notre Dame, but one would think an assistant with head coaching experience would be important for his first staff.
Losing Polian, who was Nevada’s head coach from 2013-2016, certainly doesn’t answer that question. Offensive line coach Jeff Quinn, who we’re still unsure the future of, is the only other current assistant with such experience as he was Buffalo’s head coach from 2010-2014.
Next: Polian’s Rainbow (Hawaii) Connection