Former Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly spoke with the team's players for three minutes and 42 seconds on Tuesday morning in his final meeting before leaving for LSU.
Matt Fortuna and Pete Sampson of The Athletic obtained an audio recording of the goodbye message, which centered around what Kelly described as a "magical" time building the Fighting Irish program since 2010:
"Good morning guys. Thanks for getting up here in short order, short notice. As you know, I sent out a text last night trying to give you as much notice as possible given the circumstances that we all know that happened relative to social media and information getting out.