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A crisis of confidence and execution. &#8230; the Irish persevered. &#8230; As the top executive in the Notre Dame athletic department, athletic director Jack Swarbrick had a vested stake in the upheaval. Kelly said he came to Swarbrick with his decision to fire VanGorder &#8230;. &#8216;My message, publicly and privately, is the (football) program is in great shape,&#8217; Swarbrick said after the victory. &#8216;When there are big program problems, that\u2019s harder to deal with. When you just have to start playing as well as you can, it\u2019s a narrower search. &#8220;How do we fix that?&#8221; My basic message (after the firing) was: 90 percent of what we\u2019ve got here is not broken. I\u2019m confident, you should be confident. Let\u2019s focus on the few things that are (broken). 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