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I don’t want to talk about silver linings or graduation rates. I don’t want to say, “Well, at the end of the day, I still go to a great school.” I’m irritated at the people who are posting that they’re glad they didn’t go to Miami. It hurts. It better hurt. If it didn’t, it…
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Tomorrow is the day. At the beginning of the season, I said I felt like the night before the Navy game felt like Christmas Eve. I tossed and turned all night, worrying and wondering what this season would bring. There is absolutely nothing in my life to compare Sunday night to–nothing could have prepared me…
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I haven’t had many opportunities to deal with disappointment lately. In a perfect season, that tends to be the case. Since the USC game (and the realization that we would be going to the National Championship Game), campus has been flying high on success. Not only did the football team lead us to a 12-0…
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The title of my first blog this season was “This Is The Year.” “The year for what though?” I asked. “The year we win a national championship? The year we go undefeated?” No, I could never ask for that. I could never jinx my team, my school, myself with a request that big. Undefeated? This…
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When I came back to school in August, ready to start my senior year, I had two requests at work. The first was that I write a column on being a senior in the student section. The second was that I get to write the senior feature on Manti Te’o that would appear in the…
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In the most spectacular senior day that I—or anyone—could have imagined, there was a moment on Saturday that I know will always haunt me. As a student section (but more specifically, as a senior class) we had already wrapped our arms around each other, preparing to sway. The band played the Victory March, and then…
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Lately there have been two parts to watching Notre Dame football. The first comes on Saturday and takes place either in Notre Dame Stadium or in front of the TV. The second falls on Sunday night and serves as a reminder of what we’re pushing for week after week—The BCS Countdown. I have been eagerly…
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How many miracles can there be in a single game? And how likely is it that they all come sometime after the third quarter? I wasn’t worried at halftime. Things were looking shaky at halftime against BYU, but still the Irish prevailed. When our team ran onto the field for the second half, I thought,…
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Among other things, this has been a season of defining games. I feel like I’ve heard “This is the biggest game Notre Dame has played during your time as a student” at least three times this semester. After we beat Michigan State, people said we wouldn’t be for real until we beat Michigan. But after…
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When Brian Kelly came out for his post game press conference yesterday, one of the first things he commented on was the atmosphere of the locker room. “I think the thing that was concerning for me the most is when our guys came in, and I didn’t sense a great feeling after winning a tough,…
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And just like that, any hope I had of protecting my heart vanished. There is no chance of managing expectations anymore. I don’t know why this win felt so different from the others (and by different I mean better). Certainly, beating Michigan was one of the happiest and most gratifying sports memories of my life.…
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This day was spectacular. It was a classic. Today is the kind that makes you look back and say wistfully, “Those were the days.” Isn’t that a strange thought? Right now, we are in the middle of living “the days.” How many times in your life have you been consciously aware of living in a…
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When I started writing this column, I had no idea things would go this way. Each of my other three football seasons at Notre Dame was some other class’s “senior season.” I figured my last year would go something like theirs, and when I wrote about it, I would write about the emotions. I would…
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I’ve said before that Notre Dame—and by extension Notre Dame football—has always been a part of my life. My father (’81) is as Notre Dame as it gets. All I usually have to say to get people to grasp that is that our dog’s name is Ara. Believe it or not, the reservations I had…
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Let me tell you a story. The story goes that last year, my friends and I woke up before the sun rose to drive to Ann Arbor in time for ESPN’s College Gameday. We wove through the crowds of obnoxious yellow and endured shouts of “Go Blue!” (among other indelicate sayings). We descended into the…
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I could tell the story of last night’s game against Michigan State purely in sound bites. The first comes in the opening montage introducing the two teams. It is a statement made by Brian Kelly. “You do not come to the University of Notre Dame because you want to be average.” I’ve learned in my…
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Slowly, silently, without you even realizing it, the student section has the ability to mark the relentless passage of time. As a freshman, you stand down in the corner. The entire football field and student section stretch out vastly before you. There seems to be no end of space between you and the other end…
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I’ve been around Notre Dame football for as long as I can remember. Those little girls you see on TV during ND games wearing the Notre Dame cheerleader uniforms—that was me. Before that, I was singing the Victory March and reciting the championship coaches (“Rockne, Leahy, Parseghian, Devine, Holtz!”) as soon as my dad could…
ND Football on YouTube
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DaVaris Daniels - Becoming A Leader
Length: 3:22 | May 20, 2013 -
Coach Kelly Sirius/XM Town Hall - Leading Team Out ND Stadium Tunnel
Length: 1:21 | May 22, 2013 -
Coach Kelly Sirius/XM Town Hall - 'Player Over Play'
Length: 1:26 | May 21, 2013 -
Coach Kelly Sirius/XM Town Hall - Undefeated Season Similarities
Length: 2:33 | May 20, 2013
