“Brian did not come to me with some opportunity to match the offer,” Swarbrick said. “We talked (late Monday night), he indicated he was resigning to take another position. He thanked me for the opportunity and for my friendship. I wished him all the best.”
Swarbrick drove home the point that Kelly had not asked him for anything prior to Kelly's abrupt departure, just 48 hours after Notre Dame wrapped up an 11-1 regular season and sat poised on the cusp of a potential College Football Playoff berth.
Rather, Swarbrick said that Kelly neither asked for facilities improvements nor any additional salary for Kelly's Notre Dame deal, which sources on campus and in college football told FootballScoop paid Kelly between $7-7.5 million annually. The Irish, as a private, Catholic institution, do not have to make public their coaches' contracts.
https://footballscoop.com/news/notre-dame-lsu-marcus-freeman-tommy-rees-brian-kelly-search
So all the talk about Kelly "doubling" or "tripling" his salary at LSU was bullshit, as I expected. Clear pay raise, but didn't even try to stay at ND. There are reports his people reached out to Florida last week.