All indications are that it's Brian Kelly

[Van]

Stanford can foot the kid's bill, any way they wish...or are you somehow under some insane impression that they can't? Do you seriously think Stanford can't choose to take in a kid, mid-year, and cover the cost from Day One?

[M Club]

If Stanford wishes to bestow upon a kid a scholarship midway through the school year, there's nothing stopping them from doing so.

Other than the fact that there wouldn't be a scholarship to bestow in the middle of the school year. Did you even go to college?

link?

[M Club]

oh, so the only funding a university can make available to its students has to come in the form of an officially sanctioned scholarship? link, please.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Kelly left CMU to coach Cincinnati in their bowl game. I don't remember Cincy players bitching then.

Was this an discussion on these boards when DickRod did it? Or any other coach?

Nope. And it's been a fairly common occurrence. Off the top of my head, it happened to North Carolina when Mack left for Texas, and it happened to Cinci once before -- when Dantonio left for the Sparty job. And ND has been in this situation beforehand as well, at least twice -- when O'Leary and Holtz were hired.

Yet another example of the type of hair-pulling that ESPN routinely engages in and which apparently passes for "journalism" there.