Notre Dame and Brian Kelly may be in it for life

Desmond Howard and David Pollack explain why they feel it's smart for Notre Dame to play two quarterbacks against Texas. (1:15)SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- "That's an interesting question, because I don't know that it fully describes what the dynamics are here at Notre Dame," head coach Brian Kelly said, beginning a convoluted answer to a simple question that had seemingly vexed the three men who held this seat before him.

He's sitting in a chair in his corner office on the eve of his seventh training camp with the Fighting Irish. The ink is dry on a six-year extension signed this winter that, should he see it through, will make him the longest-tenured Notre Dame coach not named Knute Rockne. That…