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BLUEGOLDONLINE.COM NOV. 5, 2022 13 UNDER THE DOME "We have the utmost confidence in him. I think he had confidence in himself. I was joking with him yesterday, 'You sure you're ready to go?' He goes, 'Come on Coach, I was in for one play, and we scored a touchdown. I'm ready to go.' His second response was, 'It wasn't too hard to hand the ball off. Next time let me throw it.'" — Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman on freshman quar- terback Steve Angeli "We keep pushing Jaylen Sneed. That's the guy who needs to come on down the stretch. He was really close [vs. UNLV]. We had a rash of injuries at linebacker, Jack [Kiser] goes down; Prince Kollie is on the ground. I turned to [graduate assistant James] Laurinaitis and said, 'Make sure you get Jaylen ready to go.' We were really close last week. Jaylen has to keep pushing and learning. But he would be the next guy up." — Notre Dame defen- sive coordinator Al Golden "You have to make the most of every snap. That's what I try to tell myself on every play. Don't think back five, 10 years down the road about these mo- ments and be like, 'I wish I would have played harder, done this, done that.' You have to give your all every single snap because you don't have this game for- ever." — Sophomore linebacker Prince Kollie "I know you watch them and say, 'This doesn't look great,' but Marcus Freeman will eventually get it, I know he will. Just be patient with him. He's a first-time head coach at the University of Notre Dame — think about that. I was a first-time coach at Bowling Green, and thank God we weren't on TV all the time because the mistakes that are made in your first time as a head coach are very hard." — FOX Sports college football analyst Urban Meyer on why Fighting Irish fans shouldn't feel like the 4-3 start to his first season in South Bend is the end of the world "Not to psychoanalyze Notre Dame, but [Oct. 22] felt like the fifth stage of the grieving process for a season that once felt like it might end close to the College Football Playoff. We've experienced denial (Ohio State), anger (Marshall/Tyler Buchner injury), bargaining (Drew Pyne against North Caro- lina and BYU), depression (Stanford) and now ac- ceptance (UNLV)." — Pete Sampson of The Athletic PHOTO BY CHAD WEAVER TOP TWEETS THEY SAID IT THEY SAID IT "I'm very confident in myself, otherwise I wouldn't be here. I'm very confident in my teammates. I'm very confident in our team. That's the price of admission here to play high-level college football." — Notre Dame junior quarterback Drew Pyne on criticism from outside the program