More than ever, it appears Brian Kelly and Notre Dame is a marriage destined to fail

Notre Dame has become the punchline to a bad joke over the last 12 months.  From fringe contender for the College Football Playoff last August to 4-8 and a coach in Brian Kelly firmly entrenched on the hot seat, things have changed quite a bit in South Bend since Manti Te'o and Everett Golson led the Fighting Irish to the BCS National Championship Game following the 2012 season. Kelly is still blaming everybody but himself. In a story published Thursday by Matt Hayes of Bleacher Report, Kelly blamed fundraising during the season for a football-only facility on 2016's woes.  "I was the absent professor," Kelly told Hayes. "I wasn't paying attention to the details that we needed. There were internal

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Kliff Kingsbury ‘not sure’ Da’Leon Ward will play this season

Da’Leon Ward was the bell cow of Texas Tech’s running game the last month of the 2016 season.  With a new season fast approaching on the horizon, it seems highly unlikely he’ll do the same in the early portion of 2017 — if at all. Ward has been a non-participant throughout the whole of Tech’s summer camp that kicked off earlier this month because of unspecified issues related to academics.  Kliff Kingsbury addressed the running back’s situation Tuesday, with the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal writing that the head coach’s “update sounded ominous, considering Tech’s second session of summer school ended” late last week. In fact, Kingsbury allowed that, when it comes to Ward, he’s “not sure he’ll be