Brian Kelly left Notre Dame to become LSU’s head coach last year in a move that caused shockwaves around college football. Kelly was at Notre Dame for 12 years, and as the program’s all-time wins leader with 113, he had a chance to be in South Bend until he retired.
However, Kelly has a reason for leaving. Despite making the College Football Playoff twice in South Bend, Kelly told Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger that LSU gives him a better chance to win a national thampionship.
“I never went into the office saying we can’t [win a title],” Kelly said. “I went into the office every day looking for the reason we could. But part of the lure of this job is there are many more avenues toward that. There are not as many paths at Notre Dame. I’m not trying to skirt the answer as much as I really believed, for me, it wasn’t ‘I’m done here.’”
