“How do we get our players to hold each other to high standards? That’s what we’ve been working on. We’ve been working on leadership. We’ve seen some leaders emerge. I love the emergence of the leaders on this team.”
Above are a couple of excerpts pulled from Brian Kelly’s season-opening press conference last Thursday. If there was one overriding theme the Notre Dame head coach kept returning to it was the importance of developing leadership through this training camp, and beyond.
In fact, Kelly mentioned leaders and leadership 19 separate times during the press gathering.