The Cincinnati Bearcats had a rough patch the last week or so. They had the regular end-of-semester in college kinds of things. Then there was a banquet in honor of the seniors and at the end of the night, their coach Brian Kelly told then that it was all true that the team was going to lose him to Notre Dame next season, starting immediately. The players were of course disappointed and some of them angry. They’re being asked to change generals in the middle of the battle. But they have their interim coach and there is a replacement coach who will start next year. In the last few days, however, the team got right back out on the field to enjoy themselves and to practice for the first time since the switch. It was good for them to get back out there and run around a little bit. It got them back into their routine and it also got some of the steam off that they had developed over the last two weeks or so.