While looking for a bite to eat after school, CJ Carr’s grandfather verbally taunted him across the kitchen island.
With a sly smile, legendary Michigan coach Lloyd Carr questioned his grandson, “You wearing that sweatshirt?”
Sure, he said to his grandfather, beaming and sporting a green sweatshirt with white letters spelling out Notre Dame.
On Wednesday, CJ Carr will be one of hundreds of prospects to formally commit to the Fighting Irish by signing a national letter of intent with a college football school.
Nobody’s Signing Day story is exactly the same.
With connections to the Michigan Wolverines, the former standout quarterback from Saline High School is the son of two College Football Hall of Fame grandfathers, Lloyd Carr and Tom Curtis, and a late brother whose fight with brain cancer prompted a foundation that has raised $27 million for research.
