Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will be trying for his first BCS

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Nike Free 6.0. -- Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly will be trying for his first BCS championship, instead of a Super Bowl title, next season. The third-year Fighting Irish coach, who interviewed with the Philadelphia Eagles earlier in the week a day after the Irish were beaten 42-14 by Alabama in the BCS title game, says his interest with the NFL is over for now. "Like every kid who has ever put on a pair of football cleats, I have had thoughts about being a part of the NFL. However, after much reflection and conversation with those closest to me, I have decided to remain at Notre Dame," Kelly said in a statement released by the university Saturday evening. "This decision was motivated purely by my love for Notre Dame and the entire Fighting Irish community, the young men I have the great fortune to coach, and my desire to continue to build the best football program in the country," he said. The remarks were the first comments by Kelly since news broke late Wednesday that he had interviewed with the Eagles. Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday night that he believes Kelly interviewing for an NFL job and deciding to stay in South Bend is a positive. "I think what you get to say to young men is youre going to be coached by somebody who is recognized by the NFL as a really excellent NFL coach," Swarbrick said. Swarbrick said he was confident all along that Kelly would be back, said he continued to negotiate a contract extension with Kellys agent during the past week. Swarbrick said those talks began in early December and were put on hold as the BCS game approached because Kelly wanted to be focused on the game. Swarbrick said Kellys talks with the Eagles didnt affect contract negotiations. "There is nothing about either the dynamic or the substance which was changed by the past week," he said. "Somewhere down the road were both confident it will result in a revised agreement." Kelly originally signed a five-year contract three years ago at a reported $2.5 million a year and was given a two-year extension a year ago Recruiting analyst Tom Lemming of CBS College Sports said it was too early to tell whether Kellys talk with the Eagles will hurt what was expected to be Kellys best recruiting class at Notre Dame and possibly the No. 1 recruiting class in the country. "The key thing now is to call all the top players and assure them hes never going to leave while hes there, even if you lie, youve got to say it, and convince them it was just a thing," Lemming said. "If they believe it, theyll stay." Lemming said the Irish already lost one recruit, linebacker Alex Anzalone, who is expected to enrol at Florida. Kelly led the Irish to a 12-1 record this past season and a No. 4 ranking, their best finish since they were No. 2 with an 11-1 record after the 1993 season, which is the last season the Irish won a major bowl game. The Irish havent won a national championship since 1988. He failed to join Frank Leahy, Ara Parseghian, Dan Devine and Lou Holtz as Irish coaches who won national titles in their third seasons at the school. "We still have a lot of work to do and my staff and I are excited about the challenges ahead," Kelly said. The Eagles, who also interviewed Oregon coach Chip Kelly and Penn States Bill OBrien, said in a statement saying they spent a lot of time and effort looking at coaches they believed were the best collegiate candidates. "We did so knowing that there was a remote chance that these coaches would leave their current posts. 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Key for Washington in that final quarter was stemming the tide after the two quick goals, something they were unable to do a week ago. "Our defence took a step back and said O.K., what do we need to do to get the offence going," said Stealth captain Kyle Sorensen. "The offence picked us up and put the ball in the net and we ended up gutting it out. Its a character win, its a gut-check win and its one we needed because were moving towards the playoffs now. Weve got to be better and theres not much room for mistakes anymore." Lewis Ratcliff also had three goals for Washington (8-6). Jeff Moleski had a pair while Kyle Buchanan, Mike Grimes and Brett Bucktooth also scored. Also scoring for Calgary was Dane Dobbie with two goals. Adding singles were Dan MacRae, Geoff Snider, Shawn Evans and Scott Ranger. Goaltender Tyler Richards preserved the win with some great sttops in the late going. Nike Free Run Damen Blau Two of his 48 stops were dangerous chances late from Dickson and Evans. 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"I noticed that he was fired up, he had been slashed, and you could see it in his eyes that he was going to lose it," said Sorensen, who will be in Evans wedding party when he gets married next summer. "He looked at me and engaged and I just stood there and he was going to hit me. And we ended up scoring on the power play." Calgary led 3-2 after the first quarter and 7-4 at half-time. "We played well in the first half but then we got undisciplined and I thought they outworked us in the second half and thats the M.O. of this league, if you get outworked, theyre going to put the ball in the net," said Roughnecks captain Andrew McBride. Notes: The Scotiabank Saddledome crowd was announced at 10,008a Washington coach Chris Hall, who was the Roughnecks original coach and won a Champions Cup with them in 2004, coached his 150th NLL game. He is just the fourth coach in NLL history to reach that milestonea Dicksons first goal was his 100th of his careera Dickson is one short-handed goal from matching the NLL single season record of seven. With 12 in his career, hes tied with Tracey Kelusky for the franchise leada Daryl Veltman (lower body) did not play for the Roughnecksa The Roughnecks are 7-5 against Washington, but just 1-4 at home against them. ' ' '

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