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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Brian Kelly peers out the window of his offi ce, over its much, much larger patio, and admires the University of Notre Dame’s ath-

letic empire.The patio may be a nice place for

lunch, the focal person in college football this season admits. But there isn’t much there except for a large cement pad and four chairs around an umbrella-covered table.

The offi ce holder rare-ly uses it anyway.

“I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but the offi ce itself really isn’t big enough,” Kelly said. “I’d like to blow this wall out, get this patio right out of here and get some more room.”

The former Grand Valley State foot-ball architect has a plan to make that happen.

“If I can get to 10 wins, I think they’ll let me do it,” he said. “I don’t know that they’ve got a problem with a coach, if he’s winning, asking for a little more

room to meet with recruits.”Kelly’s plans for his offi ce renovation

do not differ all that much from his plans for Notre Dame’s football overhaul.

The Fighting Irish went through three head coaches in the last decade, all of them failures by Notre Dame standards.

Bob Davie’s inconsistent teams had two losing seasons. Tyrone Willingham won 10 games his fi rst season (2002), then lost more games than he won his last two years. Charlie Weis won more games his fi rst two years (19) than his last three (16),

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In charge: Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly watches as his players do calisthenics during media day practice.

BRIAN KELLYHead football coach, University of Notre Dame

Personal: Age, 48. Married to Paqui, sons Patrick and Kenzel, daughter Grace.

Hometown: Chelsea, Mass. Now lives in Granger, Ind.

Previous jobs: Head coach, University of Cincinnati (2007-09); head coach, Central Michigan University (2004-06); head coach, Grand Valley State (1991-

2003); assistant at GVSU (1987-90); assistant at Assumption (1983-86).

Quotable: “We’re here for our lady; we’re here to play for Notre Dame. There’s only one way to

play this game, with great passion and spirit, to play for your teammates, to play for our university. That message we will talk about every single day. The rest takes care of itself.”

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ANN ARBOR — Kerry Hutchins won-dered from her hospital bed not too long ago what it would take for more people in Michigan to formally register to be

organ donors.The 33-year-old Sparta

woman, born with cystic fibrosis, figured telling her story might help.

“When are we gonna start talking more about it?” Hutchins said ear-lier this month. “Maybe when you can put a face to it. When you can say,

‘Remember that girl we read about with CF? The one who needs lungs?’”

Hutchins died Saturday morning from her illness.

She was at the University of Michigan Health Systems in Ann Arbor, where she had been living since April, hoping for a double lung transplant that would save her life.

“She lost the good fight,” her dad, George Roby, said. She was surrounded by family.

Hutchins’ doctors took her off the transplant waiting list Wednesday, af-ter deciding she was no longer strong

enough to survive transplant surgery.She did get part of her wish — she

moved many to sign up as donors. So far in August, 309 people who registered at Gift of Life Michigan cited stories about Hutchins as their motivation, said Tim Makinen, communications director for the agency .

Signups from Kent County more than doubled in the week following the story about Hutchins, to 776, he said.

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Cystic fibrosis claims womanafter transplant hope fades

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EAST LANSING — Rick Snyder left the red meat to others Saturday as he took the reins of the Republican Party at a briefl y divided state convention, seeking to leave primary-season rancor behind and hoping to unify the state as a candidate for governor who is surging in the polls.

Snyder’s speech to 4,000 delegates, alternates and guests at Michigan State University’s Breslin Student Events Cen-ter declared he would seek the votes of not only independents, but Democrats.

“With one voice, we have one chance, the best chance to stand up and say it is time for more and better jobs,” Snyder said. “It’s time to create a place for our young people to stay and fl ourish.

“It’s time for Michigan to work and win together to be a great state again.”

While many candidates pledged to delegates that they were the most con-servative, Snyder stressed themes not often heard at a GOP convention — pro-tection of natural resources and invest-ment in the “restoration” of Michigan’s central cities.

“Michigan cannot be a great state if Detroit is not on the path to being a great city again,” he said.

Snyder drew his loudest applause with his vow to eliminate the Michigan Business Tax and replace it with a fl at-rate corporate income tax.

But he did not call himself a conserva-tive, take the no-new-tax pledge, men-tion abortion or talk about gun rights. He did not name Democratic opponent Virg Bernero but referred to him once as a “career politician.” He did draw applause for criticizing the “happytalk” and “failures” of the Granholm administration.

National committeeman Saul Anuzis said it wasn’t necessary for Snyder to dish up an attack.

“Now we have to talk about how we’re going to solve the problems of Michi-gan,” said Anuzis, also a former state chairman. “This was a general election speech. All the programs he laid out attract Republicans, independents and Democrats.”

Besides, he said, “the base has never been more fi red up.”

That was evident from the hundreds of delegates, many of them new to conven-tion politics, affi liated with more than two dozen tea party organizations.

Snyder’s campaign also tried to smooth over differences with tea party activists who sought a vote for their nominee for lieutenant governor, Norton Shores businessman Bill Cooper.

The last-minute attempt to challenge Snyder’s choice, state Rep. Brian Calley of Portland, fi zzled after an ad hoc show of hands called for by convention man-agers. When Calley won that, Cooper withdrew.

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impressive,” Makinen said.Roby said the family talked

about that with Hutchins in her last days.

“She is making a big im-pact,” Roby said. “People have told us from all overthe country that they read about her, and signed up.

“We really hope Michigan

can get on board.”Michigan ranks 42nd na-

tionwide in the percentage of drivers who have offi cially ex-pressed their wish to be organ, eye and tissue donors.

Many residents aren’t aware it is not enough anymore just to sign the back of their driv-er’s license or state ID. They must join the Michigan Organ

Donor Registry by going online or visiting a Secretary of State offi ce.

Registered donors receive a red heart sticker to affi x to their driver’s license.

Comments from readers in The Press or on mlive.com streamed in, telling how peo-ple heard about Hutchins, then went online to register as organ

donors.“Please extend the sincer-

est sympathy of a stranger to Kerry and her family,” writes a woman named Sarah.

“Please tell them that I reg-istered to be a donor online ... They are all in my prayers and I hope it is a comfort to know that Kerry’s story added at least one person to the registry.”

At Gift of Life Michigan, Makinen said Hutchins’ story and a video they produced about her are now part of the organization’s orientation for new employees.

“Kerry puts a beautiful face on the people we’re trying to help,” Makinen said. “And her story provides motivation to redouble our efforts.”

Funeral arrangements are pending for Hutchins, who is survived by her husband, Mat-thew Hutchins, of Sparta; sons Aiden Hutchins, 4, and Cordell Brown, 13; father and stepmoth-er George and Glenda Roby; mother and stepfather Beckie and Bill Southwell; brother Lee Roby and others.

George Roby said Gift of Life was contacted, so that Hutchins, a registered organ donor, might give life to some-one else.

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which called into question why he couldn’t win with his own recruits and why Notre Dame tolerated his infamous arrogance.

One thing Weis did manage was a bowl victory, albeit in the minor Hawaii Bowl in 2008. Before that, the Irish had lost nine consecutive bowls.

Enter Kelly, whose cocksure air when it comes to winning contrasts sharply with his long history of coop-erating with others and of understand-ing football’s place in a university context.

Asked if he felt starstruck after ar-riving at Notre Dame, Kelly said just once, when he met Joe Montana, who won the Heisman here. That passed quickly, as Montana regularly attend-ed practice to watch his son, Nate, who also plays quarterback.

The one university fi gure who leaves him awestruck, Kelly said, is the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, the 93-year-old former Notre Dame president.

“Here’s a guy who was part of NASA, civil rights — I could go on and on,” Kelly said. “That was the time I was like ‘I am just so insignifi -cant, compared with what this guy has done.’ That’s the one guy who stands out, in a one-on-one relationship, in communicating, ... that has left me thinking ‘What am I doing here?’”

Doing more with moreKelly, 48, has the opportunity to

prove what he can achieve with the college football world at his feet, after years of honing a reputation of doing more with less.

In 13 years as Grand Valley’s head coach, Kelly built a perennial nation-al contender and won NCAA Divi-sion II championships his fi nal two seasons.

That led him to a struggling Cen-tral Michigan program where, in his third and fi nal year, the team won 10 games and a Mid-American Confer-ence title.

Finally, Kelly moved to the Univer-sity of Cincinnati, took a moribund

program that never had won 10 games and put up three seasons of double-digit wins, with two major bowl ap-pearances and an undefeated regular season his last year.

He also became a millionaire at Cin-cinnati and, while his terms at Notre Dame have not been disclosed, he will earn millions more annually.

Yet at this time seven years ago, Kelly barely scratched into the six-fi g-ure realm at GVSU, where his job was to fi nd Division I-level players who slipped through the cracks and turn them into Division II champions.

“I think it serves me well, knowing where I came from and not forgetting trying to get those bills paid at the end of every month, living paycheck to paycheck, raising a family, and going through that for really the bulk of my career,” Kelly said.

“ I can say I’m humbled by that and blessed by what’s occurred to me.”

Diverted into coachingOne thing that occurred is that a

man who initially planned to enter politics instead entered the weekly race to win football games.

Kelly was a linebacker at tiny As-sumption College in Massachusetts, where he was team captain his fi nal two years then defensive coordinator after graduation. He was 21 and coach-ing some seniors older than him.

After four years, he left to coach defensive backs and pursue graduate studies at Grand Valley. He was an assistant four years for Tom Beck, the last two as defensive coordinator, a job he inherited at age 27.

Beck saw intelligence and drive in Kelly — as well as someone affordable.

“He was enthusiastic, he was a posi-tive guy, he was energetic,” Beck said. “And he came cheaply at that time. We didn’t have a big budget for salaries. But you could see he defi nitely had the potential to be an outstanding coach and an outstanding person.”

After the 1990 season, Beck left to become Lou Holtz’s offensive coor-dinator at Notre Dame, leaving the

29-year-old Kelly to succeed him.Beck said Kelly possesses a “tre-

mendous persona that parents and everybody welcomes,” and he will do well at Notre Dame.

“Brian is 100 percent confident, positive, and I truly believe he’s go-ing to get the job done,” Beck said. “Notre Dame is a great place to be. It’s not just nationally known, it’s in-ternationally known. Lou Holtz said once you really could recruit by step-ping out the door and yelling for high school kids.”

Kelly braced for the job. He ap-peared with equal ease on “Live With Regis and Kelly” and in singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” during a Chi-cago Cubs seventh-inning stretch.

Between the 160-or-so public com-mitments he made since taking over in December, and his focus on prepar-ing for this season, the experience “has been such a whirlwind for me that I haven’t found my space yet.”

“I’ll fi nd that 30 minutes, or that 45 minutes, whether it’s walking down to the basilica, or the Grotto, or just closing the door and turning out the lights in your own offi ce,” Kelly said. “I haven’t gotten that yet. But I know I’m going to have to fi nd that.”

An end to uprooting? To the three children of Brian and

Paqui Kelly, there might have been some question whether Notre Dame is where they should be.

After the Kellys’ years of stability in Allendale, they have uprooted their children, ages 9 to 13, with the regular-ity of a military family.

The older the kids got, the tougher it got.

“I think, more than anything else, now they don’t know if it’s home or not,” Kelly said. “Kenzel, my youngest, asked ‘Dad, how long are we going to be here?’ And of course my response is, ‘This is where I’ve been trying to get to, we’re not going anywhere.’ But say that to a kid who’s moved three times in six years and you get, ‘But no, really, how many years?’”

Brian and Paqui Kelly met in Allen-dale, where Paqui’s successful battle with breast cancer led the couple to launch a foundation devoted to that cause. Beyond that, one of their fi rst acts after Brian Kelly became head

coach here was to donate $250,000 toward three Notre Dame initiatives, including one on cancer research.

“Giving back to the university was huge — not just Grand Valley but whatever university setting that we’re in, because that’s where we met, that’s the environment we grew up in,” Brian Kelly said.

“I remember living in the dorms while we got a house built in Allen-dale. So university was important and, obviously, the personal nature of her cancer, those were absolutely impor-tant, as was the fact that she’s been immersed in any community we’ve been in.”

The daily re-checkTo the Irish faithful, the do-gooding

is of little good if their team doesn’t start winning.

Kelly finds himself increasingly pushed into a CEO role, managing media, alumni and public affairs. Do those infl uences concern him? “Every day,” he said, then repeated it twice.

“I come in kind of re-checking my work every single day, making sure that I haven’t veered too far away from what I was doing when I was at Grand

Valley,” he said. “Now, I’m not coach-ing the position, per se, and stand-ing up in the meetings. But I’m at the meetings, I’m there, I’m coaching on the fi eld. I don’t know if I could ever be effective anymore if I detached my-self from it. It’s just not who I am.”

Looking for immediate impact Cincinnati was a great success sto-

ry. It also required some smoke and mirrors.

The Bearcats didn’t beat top-tier teams outside the Big East Confer-ence, which Kelly readily admits. He also knew if he had to go deeper than his 22 starters “we were exposed.”

“My job at Cincinnati was keeping those guys healthy and getting them ready to play on Saturday,” he said.

Despite the lack of recent success here, those same issues don’t exist.

“We’ve got more depth,” Kelly said. “We clearly have talent. As I told our guys, we’ll get what we deserve.”

There is no long-term plan for a return to prominence.

“This is all about getting this pro-gram nationally in the top echelon immediately and then continue to work on that every single day,” Kelly said. “There’s nothing we’re holding back.”

Defensive coordinator Bob Diaco said one of Kelly’s major strengths is pinpointing day-to-day details.

“We work that energy that way, try to funnel it down into that, consis-tently and constantly, and that’s from him on down, from coach on down,” Diaco said. “ Big picture, the objective is to win football games.”

If that happens, Kelly soon could have an offi ce with plenty of space for bookshelves fi lled with his life story.

He chuckled at the notion of writ-ing a book, then admitted having con-sidered it.

“I think it’s going to be a great story, provided the ending’s good,” he said. “So let’s make sure that we get there fi rst. This could be, ‘Oh, he was just over his head; he’s really a Division II guy who got to the right place at the right time.’ So the jury’s still out. When we’re winning football games here at Notre Dame, I’ll be the king of books.”

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Trickle-down theory

When Brian Kelly accepted the job at Notre Dame, it touched off head-coaching changes that included his previous schools:

CINCINNATIHired Butch Jones from Central Michigan, the second time Jones followed Kelly into a job. Jones was hired at CMU when Kelly left there for Cincinnati.

CENTRAL MICHIGANHired Dan Enos, a Michigan State assistant, after Jones left.

GRAND VALLEYHired Matt Mitchell from within the staff to replace Chuck Martin. Martin, a former Kelly assistant, was hired by his ex-boss to join the Notre Dame staff.

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Irish tradition: Former Notre Dame head coach Ara Parseghian, a two-time national champion, gives Brian Kelly’s team a pep talk during media day practice on campus

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Looking for wins: Quarterback Dayne Crist talks with coach Brian Kelly.

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for a roll call vote but said it would have made the tea party “toxic.”

“I have no intention of hurt-ing a movement I believe in,” he said. “The writing was on wall.

But liberals are always a ripe target at a GOP convention, and taking aim were conservative justices on Michigan Supreme Court who urged the renomina-tion of one of their own, Robert Young, and an opponent for Justice Alton Davis, who was appointed Thursday to replace Justice Elizabeth Weaver.

Cliff Taylor, the former jus-tice defeated in 2008, called her “Weaver the deceiver.” Young said her resignation will change the court “for the bet-ter” and said Davis, a Michigan Court of Appeals judge to be formally nominated today at the Democratic convention, “is as liberal as you can get.”

Republicans used the one-day convention to fi ll out their ticket for the fall ballot.

Former appeals court judge Bill Schuette narrowly defeated Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop for the attorney gen-eral nomination. He will face

Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton, the Democrat.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Mary Beth Kelly defeated Jane Markey, a judge on the Michi-gan Court of Appeals, for state Supreme Court.

And in the five-candidate contest for Secretary of State, Ruth Johnson, the Oakland County clerk, prevailed af-ter two ballots and will face Democrat Jocelyn Benson, a Wayne State University law professor.

After the convention the ticket piled into Snyder’s cam-paign bus, parked on the arena fl oor, and headed for evening events in Battle Creek and Chelsea.

Snyder campaigns in south-east Michigan today.

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Longtime Kent County Dem-ocratic activist Lupe Ramos-Montigny on Saturday won her party nomination for the state Board of Education this fall.

She is a retired Grand Rapids Public Schools teacher.

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