Brian Kelly’s regime at LSU was an odd one. For some reason, he simply couldn’t replicate his successes with previous programs at Baton Rouge. A four-year stint ended in a messy exodus. Recently, however, the former LSU head coach admitted that the job forced him to part from an intensely special dream.
“We just finished building our dream home,” Kelly said on SiriusXM’s Dusty and Danny in the Morning. “You can walk out our home and look at the Golden Dome. We tore down an apartment complex to build this beautiful home. We had no intentions of leaving Notre Dame…We had no idea that this was going to come upon us or we wouldn’t have done those things. They’re really difficult.”
Even though Brian Kelly and his wife, Paqui, poured a ton of heart into the building, the sports world was shocked when he took the LSU job in late 2021. Just like that, they went from living in their forever home in South Bend to moving down to a $1.2 million lakefront mansion in Baton Rouge almost overnight. Like his Notre Dame home, the mansion gave an amazing view of the Memorial Tower and the Tiger Stadium. The only reason the Kellys agreed to the massive change is that they believed Notre Dame was at a point that could sustain itself, thanks to the former coach’s efforts…