Under the Dome
They Said It
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"For Notre Dame to get back here we had to have a Manti Te'o. You couldn't do it without
him in the sense that to really restore the program you needed somebody who represented
the values of the program and the university, and played the way we want to play. He was
the embodiment of that. Decades from now we're going to be thankful to Manti for what
he did to turn this thing around."
Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick
"That was probably the biggest surprise to me, how we were able to control the line of scrimmage.
I think their guys got a little tired earlier in the game. I think it might be easier for us to play in those
conditions — the humidity — because that's what we grow up with." — Alabama head coach Nick Saban
"We knew one team was going to break, and it wasn't going to be us." — Alabama defensive lineman
Damien Square
"So thorough, though, was top-ranked Notre Dame's plummet Monday night off the grandest stage
that Irish football had climbed onto in almost a quarter of a century, the stench of the impending social
media snark, the punch lines, the bewilderment will be hard to shake for a while." — Eric Hansen, South
Bend Tribune
Tweet Of The Week
@Robert87Rains: "Bad ending to a great story." — Notre Dame wide receiver Daniel Smith summing up the 42-14 loss to Alabama in the BCS National Championship
