You do have to acknowledge one thing - this was an internal investigation conducted by the school.
No way in hell any SEC school (outside Vandy) or BigTen programs dying to be SEC-like ...ahem, Ohio, would ever do the same.
Noter dame sucks but at least some people somewhere have at least a little integrity. How Kelly handles this one will speak volumes, if he's allowed to stay of course.
I agree that ND - or at least some individuals in the administration & faculty - deserves credit for doing the right thing. every school has tension between the faculty & athletic departments, but how that tension is resolved varies from place to place. We saw it, I think, in the way Demar Dorsey was prevented from enrolling under RR. We did the right thing in that case, and I don't think we have had those problems in Ann Arbor since then; at least we haven't heard of any academic issues under Hoke. I don't remember any under Carr either.
since this has come up AGAIN at ND, I wonder if some on the faculty have it in for Kelly. By all accounts, he's a pretty big jerk. And also, it's one thing to get away with some of the issues his team has had (Lizzy Seeburg, Declan Sullivan, etc.) with nothing more than some bad press and a slap-on-the-wrist from OSHA, but it's another to expect everyone there to forget and move on. I mean... people DIED. I wouldn't be surprised if some in the Administration there decided to take it upon themselves to make life as difficult as possible for Kelly... after all they
are Catholic, right? they're holier than us, and hold themselves to higher standards.
FWIW, Kelly's making excuses: Link:
http://www.freep.com/article/20140818/SPORTS06/308180167/notre-dame-football-academic-scandal:"Kelly said. “We have to do a better job providing them the resources. Look, this is never a one-sided issue. We have to internally look at providing our student-athletes all the resources necessary that if, in fact, they took shortcuts, that they don’t.”"
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"Asked about the connection between his tenure and a sequence of high-profile incidents that revealed questionable decision making — from Shembo’s alleged sexual battery of Saint Mary’s College student Lizzy Seeberg that preceded her suicide, to the death of student videographer Declan Sullivan in 2010, to Michael Floyd playing after his third alcohol-related incident in 2011 to this — Kelly deferred. He’s engrossed with the Rice game plan.
“This isn’t the time to have a debate on what my leadership, or lack thereof, is,” Kelly said."
HE REALLY SAID THAT LAST PART!
