As a non-football playing ND student who didn't cross paths

As a non-football playing ND student who didn't cross paths
by CJC (2021-02-17 13:57:24)

In reply to: Ara, as perceived by two non-football-playing ND students. (link) posted by fr.langeboy

with Ara until many years after graduation, I regarded Ara as one of the finest people I ever met, at Notre Dame or otherwise.

And that has nothing to do with his Hall of Fame coaching career. Ara would have brought the same integrity, values, commitment and compassion to any occupation, from CEO to groundskeeper.

In fact, given the way that fame can change some people, Ara's football success only makes his extraordinary decency that much more impressive.

He not only makes our recent coaches look less-than-pedestrian based upon a comparison of their won-lost records, he makes them pale in comparison as men, as human beings.

Replies:

I met Gerry Faust and he seemed to share many of Ara's fine - fr.langeboy 2021-02-17 17:06:55
- Faust was passionate about the local Catholic High Schools - HolyCrossHog 2021-02-18 00:06:35
  - pretty sure I had you for class at Marian - bealanatha 2021-02-26 15:24:07
  - Faust was in way over his head, he was a HS coach - Irishnut63 2021-02-18 21:38:58
- The track team practiced whenever it wanted under Holtz - Moff 2021-02-17 18:02:09
  - In the winter the track team ran around the basketball - classof69 2021-02-17 18:28:54
    - off the front page * - olson 2021-02-18 09:32:52
      - I recall sitting in the stadium in 1970 and watching Larry - fr.langeboy 2021-02-18 13:02:47
- When I was a student - tf86 2021-02-17 17:59:22
  - not sure I totally agree... - DavidAddison 2021-02-18 16:56:36