Brian Kelly's lousy excuse for leaving Notre Dame makes his exit look even worse

Brian Kelly does not have a lot of fans in South Bend anymore, and actually, he probably doesn't have any fans now after some recent comments from the former Notre Dame head coach. First, Kelly spoke about wanting to get back to coaching after being fired from LSU after three seasons.

The fact that Kelly was trying to make a pitch for a new job, but only for "the right place," is one that had Notre Dame fans choking on their drinks with laughter. Now, Kelly is turning back the clock and reflecting on his decision to leave Notre Dame for LSU, and his latest comments on it really make matters so much worse.

When Kelly left Notre Dame for LSU, he did it in the worst way possible, by completely blindsiding everyone in the program. No one really even knew that he was being considered for the job, and in fact, he was on a recruiting trip when the news broke.

Brian Kelly thinks he brought Notre Dame back to consistency but he could not be more wrong

Kelly always spoke about building the Notre Dame brand and bringing a National Championship back to South Bend, but apparently, he did what he sought to do with the Irish. In an interview with SiriusXM College Sports, Kelly said that the plan wasn't to leave Notre Dame and that he and his wife were building a new house when they made the decision to leave.

When the LSU job presented itself, Kelly thought long and hard about what he set out to do at Notre Dame. He wanted to bring the program back to "where it needed to be," basically saying that it got the program winning consistently and being an elite program. Kelly even said his mindset wasn't winning championships.

"Everybody associates success with winning National Championships, or winning Super Bowls, or World Series, I get that, but that wasn't our mindset," Kelly said.

Of course, every program wants to be elite, but being elite can also mean winning championships. So, for Kelly to say that winning titles wasn't his mindset at Notre Dame really shows that he was the wrong coach for the program. It makes his leaving look so much worse and proves that the right person, March Freeman, is in the job.

Freeman wants Notre Dame to be elite, but he really wants to win championships in South Bend as well. Both Kelly and Freeman went to a National Championship and lost, but the difference right now is that Freeman is expected to go back and win it, while it just never felt like Kelly would be able to get back ever again.