The following is excerpted from Rebound: From Pain to Passion—Leadership Lessons Learned by Matt Doherty. Copyright © 2021 by Matt Doherty. Used by permission of Sports Publishing Group, an imprint of Clovercroft Publishing.
I thought I would be in South Bend forever. We had a great season. Recruiting was going well. We received a big-time commitment from high school point guard Chris Thomas from Indiana. Notre Dame hadn’t gotten the best players in the state with Bobby Knight at IU and Gene Keady at Purdue. We were making a lot of noise in the world of college basketball!