I hope you guys are paying him enough to keep him from leaving for a better offer than ND... At a school like ND, only a HC offer should pull one of the assistants.
Trolling Ant?
For someone's who's been here for 6 years you don't know show much knowledge about ND coaching history. Rockne was here 13 seasons, Leahy, Parshegian, and Holtz 11, Layden 7, Devine 6. There haven't been any 25 year career coaches coattails for assistants to ride.
They did groom a lot of future head coaches for other schools. When Holtz was here, coaches came to ND to get their "ticket punched", to fill out there resume while grooming for a head coach job ala Barry Alverez.
Then there are the guys that were here 5 or less.
Lots of assistants came and went. A few even rose to head coach here but mostly when the Adminstration was trying to de-empthasize the football program after a legendary coach left (Rockne, Leahy, Holtz). Some newly minted ND Presidents couldn't grasp that ND isn't a place for on the job training as a head coach.
Some assistants rose in the profession like Meyer and Charlie Strong (both Holtz hires). Alabama AD Mal Moore was Assistant Head Coach under Faust. Moose Krause was an All-American who became a head football coach before returning to ND to become a football assistant and later Head Basketball Coach. Krause was 3-0 as Acting Head Football Coach during Leahy's illnesses. He also was ND's AD for 32 years. Brian Boulac played at ND was an assistant football coach for 13 years, moved to the AD's Office, was the first head coach of the women's softball team, and rose to Assistant AD.
There are others but largely ND hasn't been a place assistants stay at decades. Perhaps it's because turnover's been higher the past 16 years at any coaching level in this football program. Perhaps it's because unlike Alabama, FSU, PSU, OSU, etc it's because they don't get state funded pensions.
ND does pay better salaries for assistants than they used but it's still a private school. Alford's only entering his 4th season here. One more than Kelly. Alford will do what's in the best interest of his career and family.
