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✦ News & notes They Said It "I don't like Notre Dame at all. It's just going to make me go harder. I just think they're really cocky and their coaches are really cocky. I just don't like that. They're just different people there. … It's awesome up there, but just not somewhere I would want to go to school." — Pittsburgh sophomore tight end J.P. Holtz, no relation to former Irish head coach Lou Holtz "That's Notre Dame, man. We don't expect anything to be easy. That's why we came here. It's one of the greatest challenges off the field and on the field you can get from an institution, and we expect that week in and week out." — Irish senior wide receiver TJ Jones on always seeing an opponent's best game "They've got different players. The whole makeup Pittsburgh sophomore tight end J.P. Holtz of their team is different. I think we're a different — no relation to former Irish head coach team, too. They're not reinventing themselves, but Lou Holtz — is not a fan of Notre Dame. photo courtesy pittsburgh I think players are the strengths and weaknesses of teams. Offensively, they're still in the same formations as last year, but they're also playing to Tommy Rees' strengths more. You can take things from last year's game and put it on film, but like any team they're a different team from year to year." — Pittsburgh head coach Paul Chryst "You think about everything you do in the past and use it, but I'm over that one. And I don't know what the players think. A lot of them didn't play. This is this year, and we have to do a good job of making sure they understand that." — Chryst on last year's tripleovertime loss in South Bend "Unexpectedly, attrition has [Brian] Kelly facing perhaps as stiff a challenge to his philosophy and coaching ability as he has faced at Notre Dame. That is saying something. Another two regulars lost on Saturday — one for the year, one for at least a week — and two more undergoing MRIs to measure how bad things are. The coach who espouses the "next man in" philosophy is running out of next men on defense, just as physicality ramps up with a Saturday visit to Pittsburgh followed by games against BYU and Stanford." — Brian Hamilton, Chicago Tribune ILLUSTRATED 2013 Holiday Gift Guide "A subject that will loom particularly large in determining bowl invitations early next month is a possible landing spot for Notre Dame. The Fighting Irish, currently 7-2 and ranked No. 24 by the AP, have no deal in place this year if they don't win out (which would require a victory at Stanford on Nov. 30) and reach the BCS. That means they will have to wait and see which conferences fail to fill their allotments … I found a scenario in which Notre Dame might end up playing a fellow ranked team in a highly unlikely spot [The Little Caesars Bowl against Northern Illinois]." — Stewart Mandel, Sports Illustrated For dozens of great gift ideas, CLICK HERE >> ✦ Page 14