Fighting Irish athletic director Jack Swarbrick has decided to answer a fan’s email that indicated displeasure with the athletic department’s supposed hesitance to pay another school’s buyout requirement for a potential Notre Dame Football offensive coordinator.
There were reports that Notre Dame did not want to hire Utah offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig because the school would have been forced to write a check to the school to buy out his contract. That’s a standard practice in college football when a coach under contract to one school gains an employment opportunity at another. Ludwig was a candidate to replace former offensive coordination Tommy Rees, who left Notre Dame for a similar position at Alabama.
