Punahou School's Manti Te'o, a prized linebacker recruit in the Class of 2009, will be making a visit to Notre Dame this weekend.

And the Irish had to take action to ensure Te'o can make a return trip if he so chooses.

Notre Dame students hatched a plan to distribute about 8,000 lei outside Notre Dame Stadium at tomorrow's game against Syracuse in honor of Te'o's visit, posting that plan on a fan Web site.

The problem? A concerted, organized effort such as that could be construed as an NCAA violation in which Notre Dame is publicizing a recruit's visit to campus and encouraging that recruit to attend the school. Once the Notre Dame compliance office received a missive about the plan, it bid the idea aloha.

"I received a communication from somebody wanting to do something — and you can gather what that is — to show support and encouragement for a prospect that may be visiting," Notre Dame compliance director Mike Karwoski said yesterday.

"I responded back saying, we don't think this is permissible, and this is why we don't think it's permissible."

Signs, videos, messages over a public address system or printed T-shirts are among other no-nos as it relates to advertising a recruit's visit to campus. There is only so much Notre Dame can control, however, and Karwoski indicated a mass banishment of anyone wearing a Hawaiian shirt is unlikely.

"I don't know if anyone here is looking to take that sort of approach," he said.

That said, it would be a risk. And at stake is the ability to recruit Te'o, the nation's No. 9 overall prospect, according to Rivals.com.

"I would hate for a prospect and for our coaches to lose the opportunity to recruit a kid, or have a kid come here, by some external person's actions," Karwoski said. "That would be the absolute worst."