As it was fifth-grade football, no one was sure who could snap the ball with even moderate aptitude. So there would be a mini-tryout. And Scott Daly, playing the game for the first time, put his hand up to hunch over.

“I went out there and gave it a hurl and ended up doing pretty good,” Daly said. “My coach took me aside and said, if you keep at it, you could possibly snap in college. I didn’t really think much of it then.”

No, it’s generally impossible to imagine full rides to dream schools emerging from a fateful fling a ball through your preteen wickets. Yet here the Downers Grove South specialist is on signing day, set to join Notre Dame as a snapper, therefore becoming the lone Irish signee that no one hopes to hear about ever again.

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