Well Kelly is a 'liberal' Catholic for one.
Also from Dennis Dodd cbssportsline.com:
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Specifically, if Brian Kelly is truly the No. 1 candidate to replace Weis, will the Cincinnati coach be able to get past comments he made to the Detroit Free Press four years ago?
At the time, five of his players had been charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of a man outside a Mount Pleasant, Mich. Bar in June 2004. Although he inherited the players, the crime occurred on Kelly's watch at Central Michigan. He had been hired as the Chippewas' coach before the 2004 season.
These are Kelly's comments after perjury charges were made against the players.
"A number of them were African Americans that had been in that culture of violence, and they're taught to look away," Kelly was quoted in the Free Press as saying. "You don't want anything to do with it. Get out of there. You don't say anything to anybody."
Kelly was admonished for the remarks by then-Central Michigan president Michael Rao and later apologized.
"I am appalled and offended at the obvious lack of forethought and sensitivity these remarks ... connote," Rao said in a statement at the time. "Coach Kelly expressed his deep regret to me ..."
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