Dan Devine, who spent four forgettable years in Green Bay as the Packers head coach, will be honored for his accomplishments at Notre Dame. This fall, a statue of him will be unveiled in South Bend. Here he leads his Fighting Irish onto the field.

The late Dan Devine, former Green Bay Packers coach, University of Notre Dame coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame, will be honored in stone this coming October … In South Bend, not Green Bay.

His likeness in stone will be unveiled Friday, Oct. 7 (the day before Notre Dame’s home football game against Air Force), at Notre Dame Stadium.

The statue dedication will be at Notre Dame Stadium’s Gate A, which in 2010 was designated the Devine gate.

At that time, sculptures of Knute Rockne (north tunnel), Ara Parseghian (Gate B), Frank Leahy (Gate C) and Lou Holtz (Gate D) were placed outside the stadium. Rockne, Parseghian, Leahy, Holtz and Devine are the five former Irish football coaches – all of them Hall of Fame inductees – who have won one or more national titles at Notre Dame.

We all remember how Devine went from a highly successful program at Missouri to Green Bay where he failed miserably and then on to national prominence by leading the Irish to a national title in 1977. (more…)