Thanks for some great insights ....

Thanks for some great insights ....
by CJC (2006-02-22 12:59:45)

In reply to: Hesburgh / Leahy posted by Leahy

including an appraisal of your father's frailties that was likely much more candid than many of us would offer about our own fathers.

The fact that so many of your father's former players speak so highly of him and the role he played in their lives -- far beyond the football field -- speaks even more to his greatness than his incomparable (to anyone other than Rockne) football accomplishments.

A colleague of mine

played baseball at ND. He tells the story with such pride about walking on campus one day when he ran into Leahy. He was utterly shocked when he called my colleague by his name and asked how things were going.