Rick Catlett has run the Gator Bowl for 22 years and met Chet Gladchuk way back when he was athletic director at Boston College.
Catlett ran into Gladchuk about four years ago at the annual National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame banquet in New York City. Catlett, who now holds the title of President and CEO of the Jacksonville Sports Council, immediately buttonholed the Naval Academy athletic director about a major event he hoped to attract.
"I told Chet that one day I'd like to have that Navy-Notre Dame game if he ever decided to move it down south," Catlett recalled.