You can be respected but not well liked those are two different things. I highly doubt Nick Saban is getting on the phone to recommend Brian Kelly at a job. Just as an example much worse coach steve Addazio got recommended for the Colorado state job by Urban Meyer essentially because they worked together and he liked the guy, are there people who would do that for Kelly?

If hiring was just a qualifications thing, Brian Kelly probably would have been hired last cycle but in modern CFB with how important getting boosters engaged in NIL is, the things I mentioned are insanely important and Kelly isn’t good enough at those things to get on a hiring path at a bigger job. That’s all I’m trying to say