Brent Musburger still jokes with Brian Kelly about Katherine Webb

‘Coach, you’d have been under the gun if it wasn’t for me.’

It has been 10 years since the echoes were awakened by [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] at Notre Dame when his Fighting Irish squad earned a berth in the BCS National Championship and took on mighty Alabama.

As for that game, the fun ended seconds after the team ran onto the field in what wound up a 42-14 massacre in favor of the Crimson Tide.

One part of that game that still gets mentioned by not just Notre Dame fans but college football fans all over is when legendary broadcaster Brent Musburger pointed out Katherine Webb, Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron’s then-girlfriend, in the stands.

Musburger joined Matt Fortuna and Pete Sampson on “The Shamrock” podcast this week and shared how he still jokes with Kelly about that to this day.

“Coach Kelly, who I know very well, now down at LSU having left Notre Dame,” he said. “I still tease him when he got blown out by Alabama in the national championship game, I took all the heat off him because I called a beauty queen beautiful. I was the villain that night in the eyes of the media, especially the woke journalists in some of the papers around the country.

“And, I say, ‘Coach, you’d have been under the gun if it wasn’t for me.’ And he laughs. He’s a good old politician. We’ll see what he does.” – Brent Musburger

Who says romance doesn’t exist?  A decade later McCarron and Webb are married with three kids.

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Twitter reacts to Brian Kelly’s debut loss at LSU

OK, how we doing, @lsutigerswire?

The 2021 football season started for Brian Kelly with his highly ranked Notre Dame team surviving a scare against Florida State and moving to 1-0 with an overtime victory.

A year later Kelly again opened the season against Florida State but this time it was in his debut as LSU’s head coach in a game played in the Louisiana Superdome.

And this time Kelly wasn’t able to sneak away with a victory, with his Tigers instead falling 24-23.

As you can probably expect, a lot of Notre Dame fans had the ex-girlfriend thing going on with Kelly’s LSU debut and kept an eye on the game, many even feeling the need to take to social media during it.  Here are some of the best Twitter reaction to Kelly’s debut loss with the Bayou Bengals.

Watch: Brian Kelly’s latest cringe-worthy video

Cringeworthy.

Brian Kelly wasted no time turning into an internet sensation after taking the LSU job.  Just two days after agreeing to terms with Louisiana State University his accent had already changed by the time he addressed fans at a home basketball game.

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It has nothing to do with his voice but Brian Kelly is again making plenty cringe with his latest viral sensation.

Walker Howard, one of the nation’s top quarterbacks in the 2022 recruiting class and a player Notre Dame pursued, reaffirmed his commitment to LSU Sunday night ahead of the early signing period.  He posted the video on Twitter with him and Brian Kelly and all I can say is make sure you watch it with your sound turned up.

Perhaps the worst thing about all of this is that I’ll never be able to hear Garth Brooks’s “Callin’ Baton Rouge” the same ever again after all of this and that stings because that song kicks.

Meanwhile Brian Kelly’s rivalry with being normal continues.

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Watch: ‘Nick Saban’ congratulates ‘Brian Kelly’ on LSU job

Incredibly done…

Brian Kelly’s sudden southern accent that sounded more like something out of “The Waterboy” than any actual person from the south took over the college football social media world Thursday.  Kelly had spoke at LSU’s basketball game the night before and the video started to really make it’s rounds.

By Friday morning Kelly was the butt of almost every joke related to college football and Joey Mulinaro of Barstool Sports took him to the woodshed in his new video of ‘Nick Saban’ congratulating ‘Brian Kelly.

Take a watch below as it’ll be two the best minutes you’ll spend today:

I don’t know if I should start with a slow clap or just go straight to a standing ovation.  Simply incredible.

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Hear It: Brian Kelly’s farewell speech to Notre Dame football team

Hear the actual audio here:

Unless you’re living under a rock by now you’ve heard the stunning move that Brian Kelly left Notre Dame for LSU despite his Fighting Irish team still being alive in the College Football Playoff chase.

The report that LSU was pursuing Kelly came out Monday evening and roughly two hours later reports of him actually accepting the LSU offer were known.  Shortly after that he sent a group message to the Notre Dame football team apologizing for the news being leaked and called for a 7 a.m. meeting Tuesday morning.

We knew Tuesday that team meeting was very short but audio from of Kelly’s entire farewell address to the team that can be viewed below:

According to The Athletic, Kelly didn’t give any handshakes or hugs afterwards but instead simply exited the room and that was that.  Kelly was then on a plane bound for Baton Rouge early Tuesday afternoon and posing for pictures with the LSU mascot before the sun was even down.

Kelly is set to be introduced as LSU’s new head coach at a 1 p.m. ET press conference Wednesday.

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Brady Quinn blasts Brian Kelly

Brady ain’t happy

There are ways for a person to leave a job with respect, class, and dignity and then there is Brian Kelly.  He did it previously at Central Michigan when he left for the Cincinnati job.  Then he did it again when he left Cincinnati for Notre Dame.

Although the news was shocking, the act and how he went about it certainly shouldn’t be, considering who you’re dealing with.  It’s probably fitting that Kelly took the LSU job because after all, tigers don’t change their stripes.

Former Notre Dame star quarterback and Heisman Trophy finalist Brady Quinn was none too pleased with the way Kelly exited.

“This was about money. This was about ego. Him looking at LSU and saying, ‘I’ve played against them. I know the hurdles you have to jump over at Notre Dame vs. LSU to recruit and I want to try and go win a National Championship.’ And he might feel like he has a better chance there, but the irony of it is his team could literally be playing for one this year and really the next two years. And I think the way he did it was more about his ego and how he feels he was treated at times at Notre Dame…

At the end of the day, you don’t leave the way he did, leaving a recruits house after this news breaks, and having other coaches out there who are on the road recruiting; you don’t leave in a classless way like that, after becoming the all-time winningest coach, unless there’s more to it and you want to try to spurn, or try and do this in a conniving way.”

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I did a couple interviews Tuesday in regards to Kelly and the question about his exit came up.  He certainly doesn’t look good in this and a lot of people again feel burned.  That will happen when someone takes a job, something he’s certainly allowed to do, but on his third time leaving a head coaching job I would have expected it to be handled perhaps be a little more smoothly.

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Hand over the keys, Jack.

I grew up in a home where we didn’t have many new cars during my childhood but instead had plenty of new, used cars.  That meant more trips to car dealerships than from the majority, if not all of my friends.

One thing I took away from my dad during those trips were that no matter what deal was promised or pressure was applied, he would always go home to sleep on his thoughts before making a decision so big.  The next day he’d then either go back if he still liked the deal or carry on looking for that next vehicle elsewhere.

When I went to bed last night I was thinking the same thing in regards to the Notre Dame coaching search.  There are clearly a ton of routes to go, but to me there is one candidate that makes all of the sense even if his background doesn’t perfectly fit the mold of what has worked in the past for Notre Dame hirings.

I wasn’t ready to endorse it last night because of his lack of head coaching experience and the parallels I find to Bob Davie’s resume nearly 25 years ago.  It’s a concern but it’s not a deal-breaker.  Certainly not with what’s at stake.

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Brian Kelly sends text to Notre Dame players, will hold meeting

How would you respond to this text if you were a player?

Imagine just enjoying your night scrolling through social media when you suddenly come across news that affects you personally. No one in your inner circle told you this was happening, and you’ve suddenly found out that your life is changing drastically at the same time as everyone else. That’s what happened Monday as nobody at Notre Dame, including the football players, knew that Brian Kelly was leaving for LSU.

In what appears to be Kelly’s version of damage control, the soon-to-be-former Irish coach sent out the following message to the team:

Oh, to be a fly on the wall during that meeting. It has to be hard to believe that Kelly hasn’t lost the respect of at least some of his players. All Kelly had to do was communicate the news before it was made public, and the blowback that is certain to come could have been avoided or at least lessened. Instead, Kelly has a big mess on his hands, and it might be too big for him to clean up before he heads south.

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Notre Dame’s offense seemed to have taken a step over their last two games entering Saturday’s date with North Carolina, as it again rolled to a 44-point scoring output in a 44-34 victory.

The win, highlighted by Kyren Williams heroics on one of the best runs you’ll see, moved Notre Dame to 7-1 on the year as they enter November likely ranked in the nation’s top-10 and a likely favorite in all of their remaining four games.

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Watch: Notre Dame debuts new light show in USC night game

Seems pretty boring, doesn’t it?

When Notre Dame played at Georgia in 2019 much of the viewing audience walked away in awe of the light show that was put on by the hosts.  Shortly after Alabama debuted something similar and countless teams in different sports have followed suit since.

Saturday night was Notre Dame’s chance to debut their fancy new light show which meant for a new team entrance and tradition to start the fourth quarter.  Check out both below.

The video of the team’s entrance is from Tyler James of ND Insider:

The start of the fourth quarter was something special featuring music from Kanye’s “All of the Lights” into DJ Kool’s “Let me Clear my Throat”.  I wasn’t in attendance but it looked awesome.

And I can only imagine how well it went over for the portion of the crowd that appeared scared and offended when “Jump Around” was blared a month ago at Soldier Field against Wisconsin.

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