Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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Under the Dome An All-Star Cast For Coaches��� Clinic Notre Dame���s trip to the big stage in January helped attract some major coaching acts to South Bend this spring. The team���s annual coaches clinic from April 11-13 will feature several big-name coaches from both the pro and college ranks. The headliner is New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. The three-time Super Bowl winner and three-time NFL Coach of the Year is widely considered one of the sharpest football minds in the game today. He worked side by side with former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis when Weis was on the Patriots��� staff, but this will be Belichick���s first trip to the spring clinic in South Bend. He will be joined by Cincinnati Bengal head coach Marvin Lewis, newly minted Chicago Bears head coach Marc Trestman, and former Cincinnati Bengals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Sam Wyche. The top name from the college ranks is recently retired Nevada head coach Chris Ault. The Hall of Famer spent 35 years with the Wolf Pack before announcing he was done at the end of last fall. He is known as the father of the ���pistol��� offense and an innovator who helped the spread attack evolve into the wideopen offenses that are common today. Varsity Athletes Step In The Ring Former Irish forward Mike Broghammer���s basketball career came to a premature finish this summer when a knee injury kept him from competing with the team. He got one more chance to perform under the lights at Purcell Pavilion as a boxer, and that ended quickly as well. Broghammer was the victim of a first-round knockout blow in the heavyweight division of the 83rd annual Bengal Bouts in early March. The 6-9 senior made it through the first three bouts of the tournament before falling to junior Daniel Yi, who claimed his third campus title in the process. Even before the fight, Yi said getting a chance to square off with a former varsity athlete would make the experience more memorable. ���Every one loves to see those fights,��� he said. ���They���re so strong and they���re tough. They���re great athletes. They���re kind of putting something on the line. I think it���s really great that they do it.��� Freshman Eamon McOsker and junior Tyler Plantz, both walk-ons on the Irish football team, also competed in this year���s tournament. They both fell by decision in the semifinals of the 194-pound weight division. The boxing club���s captain, senior Jack Lally, won the ���Best Boxer��� award at the end of the night after claiming his fourth championship in four years. The 138-pound Lally is only the 16th boxer to finish a four-year career of the Bengal Bouts undefeated, which earns him a varsity letter from the Notre Dame monogram club.