Great post, Olson, thx. An add on Valentine

When Holtz did the Japan Bowl with alumni players in 2009, Bobby Valentine spoke at their dinner. He talked about his ND recruitment:

"Bobby Valentine, current manager of the Chiba Lotte team in the Japanese pro baseball league, spoke briefly and identified himself as the only person to be a manager in the American and National Leagues and the Japan League and to go to World Series in both countries.
He also noted he had been fired from all three stops.

Valentine talked about his football recruiting trip to Notre Dame (he eventually went to USC) as a 5-10, 185-pound running back from Stamford, Conn. He stayed with Joe Theismann on his visit and recalled Ara Parseghian telling him, "You don't have to sell a Cadillac. We are a Cadillac."

At one point in the winter snow, Valentine recalled a corridor of Irish lineman in front of him, and Ara suggested (with the offense on the left and defense on the right) that if you come here you'll be looking at the backsides of these guys. If you don't you'll be looking into the faces of these other guys.

Valentine claimed his choice of USC started a 10-year family feud."