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"Your actions speak so loudly ... by CJC

... that I can't hear what you're saying."

Take Kelly's won-lost records through eight seasons, his final rankings, his national championship game appearance (including the outcome), his non-playoff appearances, his bowl wins and losses, the instances in which his ND teams lost to lower ranked teams and beat higher-ranked teams.

Take the off-field incidents, from cheating to arrests.

Take his treatment of players and staff.

Take the fact that Notre Dame is now advertising single-game football tickets in South Bend and Chicago.

And publish it. Maybe even in a newspaper ad, but make sure the graphics are very pretty so none of the NDN refugees will be offended.

And that is precisely what Swarbrick expects from the football program and what the people to whom he answers expect from him.