Meet the Presses

When Kelly was hired, I had three major concerns about how he would make the transition. Over the years he has clearly proven that he knows how to coach, but I wondered about how he would assemble a coaching staff to compete against some of the best staffs in the country, how he would recruit nationally against those same elite recruiters, and how he would handle the media on a much bigger stage. We'll find out about the staff soon enough and should start to get some clues as to the recruiting question in the next month. In the meantime, Kelly is already showing a willingness to work with the media and not treat them as the enemy, as Charlie did on occasion when he started the job. Kelly's still in the easy honeymoon phase, but more and more it looks like he will embrace rather than shrink from the bigger media spotlight.Along those lines, Kelly recently had two sit downs with the press in order to expand upon what he said during his intro presser Q&A. Interestingly, K...