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Under the Dome "I'm no stranger to controversy. Of course, I knew there would be people that said, 'Well, you didn't play football.' That would be true, but not everybody that's been associated with this game played football. With all due respect to my good friend Roger Goodell, and Paul Tagliabue, I think the most influential commissioner in the history of the NFL was Pete Rozelle. He never played football. And so you can be a student of the game, you can love the game and never have experienced playing the game. You also want people with a diversity of experiences, people that have had to make decisions and assess information from a wide variety of perspectives. That's why the different experiences and backgrounds people will bring on this committee are also important." — Former Notre Dame graduate student and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her controversial addition to the College Football Playoff selection committee "I think he was saying, 'Yeah, I've got another year. I'm coming back.' I think his intentions weren't to say that he was necessarily making a decision. I've pretty much made it clear to our players that anyone, including Louis Nix, we had this for Manti Te'o and Tyler Eifert before, that any decisions relative to the status that our players have relative to the NFL, we'll exhaust all of their means relative to the NFL and their draft status as well as talking to their family members at the end of the season. No decisions will be made as long as I'm the head coach here until the end of the season." — Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly on Stephon Tuitt saying he would be returning for his senior year "Jack Cooley exhausted his eligibility, so for the first time in a long time the Irish do not have Luke Harangody or anybody who kinda looks like Luke Harangody. So weird. But Mike Brey does enter the ACC with four returning starters from a 25-win team; that alone suggests this won't be too difficult of a transition. Jerian Grant is a 6-foot-5 guard who can play either backcourt position. He averaged 13.3 points and 5.5 assists per game last season. He's the designated ball handler on my preseason All-ACC team, and the main reason why Notre Dame will be in the NCAA Tournament for the fifth consecutive season." — CBS Sports columnist Gary Parrish on Notre Dame men's basketball heading into the 2013-14 season, its first in the Atlantic Coast Conference Of The WEEK ➤ @DocNation_7: "Can't Believe everything you read. Goodnight" Junior defensive end Stephon Tuitt after The Observer, Notre Dame's student newspaper, quoted him as saying that he would return to school for his senior season Moving? Let our customer service department know your new address! Call us at 1-800-421-7751