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SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The Almighty Father required just seven days, according to the Book of Genesis, to construct the universe.Brian Kelly needed one more than that to raze Notre Dame's 2010 football season. Eight days. From a failed fourth-and-goal attempt on the one-yard line in the game's opening drive against Navy to an ill-conceived end zone pass to Michael Floyd on Notre Dame's final offensive play against Tulsa on Oct. 30, Kelly shepherded the Irish through, and was certainly as responsible as anyone for, the worst eight-day stretch in the school's gridiron history.
In the midst of it, of course, was the horrific death of Declan Sullivan, which occurred two days after Kelly celebrated his 49th birthday.
It was a week of unspeakable loss, wrapped inside a season of unforeseen defeats, lapping up against a decade or so of interminable anguish.
Lost games, lost coaches and ultimately, for this once-proud program, lost aura. The most oft-repeated scene any Notre Dame senior has witnessed is the players of an underdog, unheralded program celebrating inside Notre Dame Stadium.
"I've never been a part of anything like that," Tulsa quarterback G.J Kinne said. "It was an awesome feeling."
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