Brian Kelly, who has been the head coach of Notre Dame for 12 seasons, is apparently headed for LSU. It's not official yet, so maybe he won't turn out to be Benedict Arnold, but it's not looking good.
On the other hand, the one team that defeated Notre Dame this year, 12-0 Cincinnati, may supply us with a replacement. Oddly, the 48-year-old Luke Fickell is about (or maybe exactly) the same age as Kelly was when he came here, and Kelly came from Cincinnati as well. That's even less official that Kelly's departure, however, so it's too soon to rejoice once more in the luck of the Irish.