Filed under: Notre DameSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- In this city that gave birth to Studebaker cars, Junior Walker and the All-Stars, Singer sewing machines and myself, I grew up in the 1960s watching Ara Parseghian threatening to walk barefoot downtown across the St. Joe River. We even share the same alma mater of Miami (Ohio) University, and with my eyes always as wide as my smile, we've often chatted during the past three decades.
I'm also close to Lou Holtz. Not only was I among the handful of reporters to conduct his first interview as Notre Dame coach, I joined those invited to his house for a barbecue two days before his No. 2 Irish won that 1993 Game of the Century against No. 1 Florida State.
Knute Rockne was a little before my time.
So was Leahy.
That said, the more I huddle with Brian Kelly (which has been three times in the last year), the more I know he is within a leprechaun's little finger of turning the Big Four of coaches at Notre Dame into a quintet.
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