http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20225019/notre-dame-coach-ara-parseghian-dies-94

I grew up watching him and his teams. Lots of ethnic pride in my family for him.
Great coach and even greater human being.

Including the 1973 Sugar Bowl. I remember that one!

SOUTH BEND — Four-plus decades after he last stalked the sideline for one of college football’s most successful programs, Ara Parseghian remained a fixture around Notre Dame.

At the 2007 annual spring football game where he served as honorary coach alongside another Irish coaching legend, Lou Holtz. At summer golf outings for charities with current coach Brian Kelly. At a surprise 75th birthday in the summer of 2016 for former Irish men’s basketball coach Digger Phelps, who was moved to tears at the sight of a smiling Parseghian.

Even at his winter home in Florida, his thoughts never were far from South Bend. After nearly every game of Kelly's tenure, Parseghian mailed the eighth-year Irish coach a handwritten letter with words of encouragement. Even when the use of a walker made it difficult for Parseghian to get around, he’d be around. There with a smile, a handshake, a laugh and an encouraging word from someone who endured his share of heartache.

Parseghian died early Wednesday at his home in Granger, after being hospitalized with a brief illness. He was 94.



http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/local/legendary-notre-dame-football-coach-ara-parseghian-dies-at/article_affde563-1edb-5bc1-a86d-655ebc55345f.html

It was in his family.