SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly came to Archbishop Alter High outside of Dayton, Ohio, last year to recruit another football player to Notre Dame. He had already gotten quarterback Malik Zaire from there a year earlier.
Alter principal Lourdes Lambert saw this as a great chance. When you think of Notre Dame coaches, you think of legends: Knute Rockne, Ara Parseghian, Lou Holtz. Now Kelly was coming. So Lambert asked that when Kelly arrived that someone bring him to her office so she could meet with him.
When he did, he sat down to meet her, and there were pleasantries.