During his first few years on campus, part of Brian Kelly’s overhaul with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish was to alter the player walk from the Basilica to Notre Dame Stadium. In 2011 Notre Dame started doing a different ritual.
Following Mass at the Basilica, the players will exit through the God-Country-Notre Dame doors and then the team will walk back to the buses. They will board the buses and turn left on Holy Cross Drive, towards St. Mary’s Lake and the Grotto, and follow Holy Cross Drive all the way to the parking lot south of Notre Dame Stadium.