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Notre Dame's Brian Kelly denies NFL rumors: There's no other place I want to coach

Matt Cashore / USA TODAY Sports

Notre Dame head football coach Brian Kelly was quick to shoot down rumors he's grown unhappy with his situation in South Bend, and that he's considering a move to the NFL in an interview with Lou Somogyi of Rivals.

"I don't know how to stop that other than to say there's no other place, first of all, in college that I would want to coach," Kelly said. "No. 2, I get to pick the players that play for me, I get to negotiate the contracts. I've got the salary cap, I've got all that. In the NFL, you don't get to do any of that. Look what Chip Kelly's going through. He tries to control all that and he gets killed for it. I can do all that here at Notre Dame.

"... Bill Belichick gets control over that but he's won (four) Super Bowls. I needed to know that to make sure I wanted to do what I was doing. After seeing that and after talking to a number of guys that I know in the NFL, it's crazy."

Kelly and the Irish have endured a pair of lean years since advancing to the national title game following the 2012 season.

Notre Dame is 45-20 under Kelly's guidance, finishing with no fewer than eight wins in his five seasons with the program.

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