Coffee pots across New England had barely stopped percolating by the time Mike Gambino first emerged from the Pete Frates Center on Friday morning. His Boston College baseball team and the visiting Notre Dame Fighting Irish were in the middle of batting practice and fungo drills to get ready for the noon-ish first pitch, and the sun-splashed Harrington Athletics Village brought a smile to Gambino's face.
He knew virtually every experience possible over his 13 years as the head coach at his alma mater, but the weather forecast for Saturday called for a deluge of predicted rain.