The 2016 season for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish was miserable. I mean... it was one of the worst seasons in Notre Dame history, so yeah — it sucked. While the 2007 team that went 3-9 might have been worse in terms of record and talent, how the entire 2016 season unfolded was more brutal in the way it played out.
Head coach Brian Kelly was an easy target — as was athletic director Jack Swarbrick. It was Kelly’s 7th season as the head man, and by all accounts, it looked like the program was truly going nowhere.