George O'Leary famously resigned from his position as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame just five days after being hired, following startling revelations that he had falsified aspects of his resume and biographical background. An investigative journalistic inquiry discovered that O'Leary had falsely claimed to hold a master's degree from New York University and falsely asserted that he had earned multiple athletic letters playing college football at the University of New Hampshire, leading to an immediate breach of institutional trust.