Kevin White offered Matt Doherty a 10 year, $12 Mil contract to stay at ND.

Doherty reveals this in his new book, " Rebound: Pain to Passion--Leadership Lessons Learned."

The year was 2000.

What if?

If Doherty accepted, there would be no Mike Brey hire. What would the trajectory of NDBB have been?

Also, we see the seeds of White's idea to lock up a promising coach with a 10 year contract.

Of course, that occurred in 2005, when White gave Fat Chuck that disastrous, train wreck of a contract.