Should Notre Dame Hire Bob Stoops or Brian Kelly as Head Coach?
Both Bob Stoops and Brian Kelly have the right personalities and backgrounds to coach at Notre Dame and both are winners which make them both great fits. Both are Catholic according to ESPN and both have Midwest ties. The difference between in my opinion however is that Kelly is ready to hit the ground running. He has current Midwest ties and familiarity with ND’s main recruiting ground than Stoops does right now. Kelly can recruit in big states like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and steal players from the Midwest powers. Stoops has in-roads in Texas, however, which would also make him a good hire for Notre Dame along with his successes. But Stoops has a disturbing trend of failures in big games and with Notre Dame usually having an easy schedule that revolves around one or two big contests with USC and/or Michigan and another top team that happens to be on their schedule, Stoops might have a hard time winning when the chips are down if his Oklahoma failures are as much of a trend a
