Received this in an email from a Notre Dame fan from Diaco's presser:
Everyone in the organization felt loved by Coach Fry. The custodians, the administrative assistants, the coaches, the players. You felt like you had an intimate relationship with Coach Fry. Coach not only knew my immediate family, but he knew my extended family. If my uncle showed up to practice one day and then showed up again 18 months later, Coach would remember my uncle’s first name. The love that I felt from Coach Fry propelled me to want to impact young men in that same fashion, and he has really shaped a major portion of my interaction with players. And that’s a developmental paradigm where you take a young man and grow him into a man culturally, spiritually, intellectually, physically, etc. Then the rest of the stuff on the field takes care of itself. You never believed that Hayden Fry would compromise you for some sort of end result, and on that basis you’d go the extra mile. He called that the extra heartbeat. He always got my extra heartbeat and he always will. I consider him to be a father away from my own father. Learning how to treat young men and learning a perspective on what is really important as it relates to football and young men are what I took from him.
He is very excited to have him. I am not sure if they have the personell to run the 3-4 yet but I think Diaco will be a good fit for them.
