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[QUOTE="TerryD, post: 4173250, member: 3399"]
A $9.5 million dollar a year for ten years deal from LSU led Kelly to leave, not "arrogance".

ND wasn't going to give him that deal.

He is a good coach but he looked at other jobs and would lobby for a raise almost every year.  ND had just signed him to an extension a couple of years ago.

Jack Swarbrick was pretty tired of this act by Kelly.  There would have been no counteroffer from ND and Kelly knew it.

Kelly had a good 12 year run as far as wins/losses.  He did little to cause ND fans to like him, otherwise.

I think that ND is going to do just fine under Marcus Freeman and his staff.

He has assembled a pretty good, well respected staff.

He is recruiting to a higher level than Kelly, at least so far.

He was instrumental in obtaining and saving/retaining a #7 ranked recruiting class this year.

Next year's class is ranked #1 right now (9 commitments).

(Kelly's classes averaged around the 11-14 range or so)

Freeman has personally recruited more five stars in one year than ND had signed since 2014.

Time will tell, but there are reasons to think that Freeman will be pretty successful at ND.
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