SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Tony Alford interviewed with the Green Bay Packers for an opening on the NFL franchise's staff, but there has been no job offer. If there is, however, would he stay at Notre Dame regardless?

"Yeah, I would think that would probably be a safe thing to say," Alford, the Irish's running backs coach, slot receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, said Friday.

"Never say regardless. I mean, if someone offers me $10 million to get out of coaching, let me tell you something, I'll be the first man working in the bank, sitting behind a desk," he added with a laugh. "But in all sincerity, no, I like where I'm at. No, I love where I'm at. And right now for me, my heart tells me I'm where I'm supposed to be, and that's the best I can tell you. That's the best I can tell you. Things can always change, obviously. That's not to be cryptic in any way. I know a lot of times people talk about coachspeak, and you say this and then all of a sudden you go do this -- I'm not into cryptic messages. My heart tells me right now this is where I'm supposed to be, with or without an offer from anyone else. And I'm a college football coach. My heart tells me I'm supposed to be in college, today, now. And that's all I can go off of right now. It is what it is."

Alford said his return flight from Green Bay, Wis., got canceled, giving him seven hours of alone time in the airport. There, he said, he thought about why he coaches the college game for a living. And though he knows it sounds cliché, he came to the conclusion that he likes to watch guys "grow and become men."

That didn't make the opportunity to interview with one of football's most-storied franchises any less of an honor.

"Oh my goodness, it's beyond flattering," Alford said. "I was talking to [Packers head coach Mike] McCarthy, he asked me what I knew about Green Bay. And I said, 'Well, I don't wanna do you any disrespect, I don't know that much I guess. But what I do know is Green Bay to the NFL is what the New York Yankees are to baseball. They are what I believe Notre Dame is to football, to college football. It's a great organization.'

"The day that I spent with those guys was really good people and good guys, down to earth. Good football coaches, obviously. Have an unbelievable organization. So yeah, it was very flattering and humbling all in the same, that they would reach out to me. They can go anywhere in the country or in the world to reach out to who they want to reach out to talk to. So I'm flattered that they gave me an opportunity to come and talk to them."