People have no idea about Brian Kelly.
They just spout out the narrative that he is a horrible person because of one time his first year at ND he went off on a player who literally threw an interception on 1st & goal when Kelly had just called a timeout & told him if the receiver wasn’t wide open, throw it away. Everybody shows that clip as if it happens every day.
You can line up dozens of people who cover college football who have badmouthed Kelly who have come out & said after actually meeting him & spending time with him, they were completely wrong about him. Just last week Marty & McGhee talked about it on their ESPN show. They both said they had biased opinions towards Kelly before meeting him, but both said they could talk for hours about how awesome he was to them over many occasions.
The other story people reference was the time Kelly cutoff a reporter in a post game presser and smarted off to her. But people don’t know the backstory to that either. She worked at the Indy Star (my high school classmate was her editor there) and she wanted to make the big time and was a TMZ level journalist. She was always looking for expose stories. She always asked bizarre questions at every media session that all the other reporters would roll their eyes at. Finally, the week Kelly snapped at her she wrote a story that ruined a former players coaching career & medical lawsuit. A former player hurt his back at ND & there is a time limit to file a medical lawsuit. ND had no problem paying it (all his medical expenses) and helped him file it. He was actually a coach at ND under Kelly & waited until the final day allowed to file the lawsuit because him & ND didn’t want any attention to it because the insurance payer might question a lawsuit when he is employed by the same school. So the reporter, trying to be cool guy, files for the paperwork, then publishes it & questions ND on it publicly. By doing this she forces ND to have to either fire the coach or deny his payment for medical costs from the lawsuit. So she basically screwed the kid over. The next day at the presser she started her usual crap again & Kelly shut her down. Of course a-holes like Finebaum (who soon became the reporters coworker at ESPN) called for his firing & all kinds of silliness. She was basically hired at ESPN to investigate ND & write crap about them. In 2018 right before the CFP she wrote a hit piece on ND, basically writing about all kinds of scandals, trying to pass them off as if they were new. All she did was write and plagerize old stories and try to pass them off as hers as if they were new.
Players and other coaches like Brian Kelly a lot. And you can read it hints from Tirico, Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Cowherd, Dan Patrick, Jim Rome, etc... all saying how awesome of a guy Brian Kelly is.
He also has his Kelly Cares foundation that has raised 10s of millions of dollars for children.