Think back to the 58-7 thumping that Jimmy Johnson administered to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl in Gerry Faust's last game. Former legendary Notre Dame coach Ara Parseghian, working as a studio host for CBS, uttered these immortal words, "From these ashes, a phoenix shall rise."
Lou Holtz created that phoenix.
And now Kelly is doing the same piece by piece, step by step and the Phoenix will rise and I do not think it will be long until it does. And when it does it will be rise to last for a long time or at least as long as Kelly is around. The foundation is being laid for the program to again be a power house repsected program thanks to BK and Jack Swarbrick. They are both on the same page and have the same goal, build it to last.