SOUTH BEND, IND. — Relief of a kind is available to Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly with just a short stroll to the other side of campus.
There, tucked intimately between the golden domed main building and St. Mary’s Lake is the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. It’s a one-seventh replica of the famous French site where the ill and the injured pray for miracle cures.
If the coach has lit a candle there for his swelling list of broken ballplayers, such news has not been released to the media. He largely has chosen to deal with his plague of injuries in the more traditional manner, on the practice field.