Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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www.BLUEANDGOLD.com SEPT. 16, 2019 11 UNDER THE DOME THEY SAID IT "I look no further than the left side of that line. Listen, Liam Eichenberg is probably going to be a first-round pick, if not a top-three round pick. We are 'O-line U' at Notre Dame. If you play, you go to the league. And I'll tell you something right now: Aaron Banks, left guard, he can play in the NFL today." Former Notre Dame offensive lineman and radio analyst Ryan Harris on how he expects the Notre Dame offensive line to improve this season (The South Bend Tribune's Pod of Gold) PHOTO BY MIKE MILLER Holy Cross Village is a continuing care retirement community, sponsored by the Brothers of Holy Cross, with a tradition of caring, compassion and trust. Holy Cross Village welcomes people of all faiths. 54515 State Rd., 933 North, Notre Dame, IN 46556 www.holycrossvillage.com ... AND ENJOY THE GAME OF LIFE AT HOLY CROSS VILLAGE I magine making new friends and developing new talents, where everything you need to enjoy the game of life is right outside your front door. Nestled among three institutions of higher learning, Holy Cross Village at Notre Dame is a senior living community unlike anything else around. Our warm and inviting community offers: Independent Living Homes and Apartments Assisted Living Apartments Skilled Nursing Memory Care Rehabilitation Services Call (574) 251-2235 today for more information and to schedule a tour. "I wouldn't change a thing about the process or the result. I think it worked exactly as it should have. And because we focused on the right thing. Someday in the book I'll talk about all the people who were interested in the job, but we didn't let all that noise get in the way. We focused on making sure we were finding someone who was a program-builder because the program was broken. If we had to hire a football coach for Notre Dame today, the criteria would be very differ- ent than they were back then, because the program is in such great shape." — Notre Dame direc- tor of athletics Jack Swarbrick on the hiring of Head Coach Brian Kelly (The South Bend Tribune) "My wife had always wanted to live in the South. I always kind of watched Florida from afar. I was always a huge fan of Steve Spurrier, but I'm Irish Catholic and grew up a Notre Dame fan. I spent six years there, my son was baptized there and we loved it there. But the bottom line in the coaching profession is you don't have time to build programs anymore and you better get it going right now. Ron Zook was the previous head coach and I evaluated the rosters the best I could and felt Florida had a better roster. Zook was a tremendous recruiter and they had Chris Leak coming back, Chad Jackson and Bubba Caldwell … I did my homework and thought my best chance to win was going to be at the University of Florida." — Former Florida and Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer on the FOX Sports 1 show The Herd with Doug Gottlieb "I'm probably the one that links with every single person. Coach Meyer was at Bowling Green when I was in high school, so he tried to recruit me a little bit — and then I tried to recruit him to come to Notre Dame when he was at Utah and we had a coaching vacancy. We've kept in touch. Matt [Leinart], Reggie [Bush] and I played against one another, and Matt and I have been tran- sitioning here to FOX, so we've continued to keep in touch." — Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn on his new college football broadcast team at FOX Sports "With Ian Book's superb accuracy and having time to develop his pocket awareness alongside Notre Dame's elite offensive line, edge unit and secondary, the Fighting Irish have everything in place to finally dethrone the Power Five in 2019. Many are overlooking the Irish after their crushing defeat in the College Football Playoff and the losses on their defense [and it shows with their slight fall in the AP Top 25], but don't write off the Irish quite yet." — Pro Football Focus' Anthony Treash on Notre Dame's outlook for the 2019 season Liam Eichenberg Aaron Banks