Notre Dame coach taking players' passports to prevent trips to Juárez

Times staff and wire reports
Posted: 12/22/2010 08:13:01 AM MST

Notre Dame football coach Brian Kelly isn't taking any chances when it comes to the safety of his players.

He is taking his players' passports to make sure they do not wander into Juárez when they are in El Paso for the Hyundai Sun Bowl, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) Journal Gazette reports.

"That's serious. Don't go over the border, or you may not come back, simply," Kelly said in The Journal Gazette. "Now I know El Paso is the safest city in the country, but it's serious. This isn't, 'Hey, let's give it a shot, guys, and jump in the car and see what it's like.'"

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