Karma - It Is a Bee-otch

When Brian Kelly was announced as the new head coach at Notre Dame last week and stated he would begin immediately and not coach Cincinnati in the Sugar Bowl UC fans and local media went completely ape-s*%t. How dare he, they said! Want a bunch of evil scumbags Notre Dame is for poaching their coach before these kids' biggest game of their lives.

Guess who's eating a little crow today?

Yesterday UC announced their next head coach would be Butch Jones, former head coach at Central Michigan. Futhermore, Jones would begin work at UC immediately and not be coaching CMU in their bowl game.

For those keeping score at home, UC just did to CMU exactly what ND did to UC. On top of that, they did it to CMU for the second time in 3 years! Kelly was previously the head coach at CMU before joining UC. He also decided to begin at UC immediately, forgoing coaching CMU in their bowl game (as he did with ND).

To recap (because the hypocrisy is almost unbelievable), UC has now done twice in three years to the same school exactly what it complained about ND doing to it.

So suck on that long and hard UC fans. Shut your damn traps and recognize this is how the big boys do business in college football.

Unfortunately, the damage is done. Much as Charlie Weis was maligned for his entire tenure as "arrogant" and "brash" for his "decided schematic advantage" comment at his introduction, I fear those against ND will use the context of Kelly's hiring to continue to berate the Irish. It is what it is - if it hadn't been that, it would've been something else.

At least Billy Cunningham will hopefully shutup now...