The Cincinnati Bearcats Are Officially Hypocrites

Less than a week after Brian Kelly left Cincinnati for Notre Dame, the Bearcats hired Butch Jones.

Like Kelly, Jones was previously the coach at Central Michigan before joining Cincinnati.

The similarities don't stop there. Jones was under contract with one school that he coached all year. Now he won't be coaching them for the bowl game.

All week the word out of Bearcat camp was that they were upset with Kelly. It wasn't because he took the job supposedly, but because he just abandoned the team and the fans. His honesty was in question.

Of course, Bearcat fans were also upset with Notre Dame for wanting him to start right away and not letting him finish at Cincinnati.

You would think that if the school really felt that what Kelly did was wrong, they wouldn't do the same thing to Central Michigan less than a week later. The most hypocritical part is that this is the second time they have done this to CMU in three years.

All the fans that were complaining last week don't seem to care at all for CMU fans. They can say all they want it was about honesty and all that garbage. Let me tell you, Charlie Weis was honest, but he didn't win. If Kelly was honest and lost, nobody would care about the honesty thing then.

Now I am affected by this whole thing in more ways than one. I am a lifelong Notre Dame fan and a CMU Alum. I can see it from both sides. The difference between Cincinnati fans and me is that I don't have any bad feelings with Kelly or Jones. In fact, I was happy to see Kelly do well at Cincinnati.

I hope Jones is too, even though Bearcat fans don't deserve it. I appreciate the work they did at my Alma Mater and am not going to fault them for doing exactly the same thing I would do.

Part of me hopes Florida just crushes Cincinnati in the Sugar Bowl. That is what Bearcat fans deserve at this point. However, I would hate to see the work Kelly put in just go down in flames. I have too much respect for him.

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