Athletic Depts. Deal with Threat of Resume Inaccuracies

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A headline in the January issue of Blue & Gold Illustrated, an independent newspaper devoted to University of Notre Dame football, read "Fans Will Be Leery of O'Leary." By the time that issue reached subscribers, however, George O'Leary was no longer the team's new head coach - his UND career having lasted two fewer days than the weeklong search the school had just conducted to fill its coaching vacancy.

In hindsight, athletic administrators should have been the leery ones. Soon after introducing the former Georgia Tech head coach as a "perfect fit" for the Notre Dame family, university officials learned that O'Leary had neither lettered in football at the University of New Hampshire nor received a master's degree from New York University, as his résumé claimed. Consequently, O'Leary would never lead the Irish onto the field in South Bend, either.

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