Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME "After a failure with Will Muschamp, an unproven entity as a head coach, Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley must achieve the 'wow' factor with the next hire; someone Gator fans won't have to Google in order to recognize. Again, Kelly is a good fit." — The South Bend Tribune's Al Lesar on the rumors of Florida's interest in Kelly "There have been rumblings Florida has interest in Kelly for its vacant coaching position, but if Kelly were to entertain that possibility, he would have to rebuild the Gators into what he has cooking for next season at Notre Dame. And if Kelly wants to reach the NFL — he had talks with the Eagles after the 2012 season — coaching a loaded Notre Dame squad to a potential playoff berth in 2015 might be his best avenue." — The Chicago Tribune's Chris Hine on why Kelly should not explore the possible Florida option TWEET OF THE MONTH @espngolic: "'@NoleMan22: I hope you didn't make a bet with anyone from Louisville #nomorebets' done with bets for a bit" — Mike Golic, former Irish defensive lineman and current co-host of ESPN Radio's "Mike & Mike" show, replying to a fan concerned he may have to release another semi-revealing photo of himself as he did after losing a bet with co-host and North- western grad Mike Greenberg following that loss Notre Dame Earns 2014 AFCA Academic Achievement Award Along with Duke, Northwestern and Stanford, Notre Dame has won the 2014 American Football Coaches Association Academic Achievement Award, which is presented by the Touchdown Club of Memphis. All four institutions recorded a 100 percent graduation rate for members of its freshman football student-athlete class of 2007. Since the inception of the award in 1981 by the College Football Association, this marks the ninth time Notre Dame has been the recipient. The Irish previously won the award in 2009 (shared with Miami, Fla.), 2007 (shared with Northwestern), 2001 (shared with Vanderbilt), 1991, 1988, 1984 (shared with Duke), 1983 and 1982. Notre Dame and Virginia have also merited honorable mention recognition 24 times to share the top ranking in that listing. From 1981-2007, the award was presented based on a formula used by the College Football Associa- tion and the AFCA. Since 2008, the criteria for the honor is based on the NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) formula. The AFCA award for Notre Dame follows the October announcement of GSR numbers in which Notre Dame ranked first among all NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision institutions with its 99 percent graduation rate for all student-athletes entering between 2004-07. In those same rankings Notre Dame also stood first among male student-athletes (98), female student-athletes (100) and black student-athletes (96). Twenty of Notre Dame's 22 individual athletics programs produced 100 GSR scores.