The Notre Dame football team is having a rather odd offseason.
When it comes to assistant coaches they want to lock down, they’re having plenty of success. They got the defensive coordinator they wanted to replace Al Golden in Chris Ash. When Deland McCullough departed for the Las Vegas Raiders, Ja’Juan Seider was lured away from Penn State, thanks to quite the rather impressive contract offer that reports indicate is paying him seven figures annually.
While Notre Dame football is landing the coaches it wants, when it comes to adding to its front office, they’ve had a weird degree of problems since Chad Bowden made his exit. That includes what appears to be getting turned down by one of their most recent supposed hires in Auburn’s Kenyatta Watson.
Notre Dame football gets turned down by another recruiting staffer
On Monday morning, 247Sports’ Tom Loy reported that the word is that Watson isn’t coming to South Bend. That would be a change from what was going down just last week.
There was a day when it looked like the Irish were revamping their recruiting operation quite a bit with the hiring of the Detroit Lions’ Mike Martin and Watson as a recruiting staffer to bolster that movement.
Loy claims that Watson has decided to stay with the SEC also-ran because he has “unfinished business.” However, it would seem to indicate that he’s getting a nice little payday from Auburn for sticking around. That’s certainly how things have gone this offseason.
It’s not clear at the moment whether Watson was a kind of “bonus” hire and the Notre Dame football program will now look to just move on without his position being filled, or whether they’ll look elsewhere to get someone else into the “front office.”