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it over with my family, my coaches and my principal — who graduated from Notre Dame — I just realized that I loved it. They want me to run the ball, play receiver and run routes, and that's something I want to do. "I want to make plays," he added. Which is exactly what Notre Dame wants him to do. McIntosh said that Irish running backs coach and South Florida native Autry Denson told him long before he offered a scholarship that he was the type of running back that could excel both on and off the field at Notre Dame. It was a pitch that McIntosh said stuck with him. "He has been with me through the whole process," McIntosh said of Den- son. "Every day, he has been talking with me telling me that he wants me to take my time and for me to make the right decision. It just made me feel like it was the right place to commit to. "The relationship I have with him is something unique. With him being from South Florida,, I feel like he's someone that I can relate to and some- one that can help me." McIntosh's father, Richard, agreed. "I know that I'm putting my son in good hands with Coach Denson," the elder McIntosh said. "When we went up there, they rolled out the red carpet for us. We felt like family, and that's what we liked." McIntosh, who also held offers from Miami, West Virginia, Tennessee, Cin- cinnati, Penn State and Rutgers, was at one time considered a heavy lean to sign with the Hurricanes given the fact that his brother — Richard McIn-