Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME 12 passes for 120 yards and a 19-yard touchdown to tight end Anthony Fasano. Tackle Trevor Laws is named the MVP on defense with 3.5 tackles for lost yardage. Said Brown of Weis, the offensive coordinator for three-time Super Bowl champion New England: "You have to listen to him and you have to believe in what he says because he can take you to the next level. It might not be this year, it might not be next year, but certainly in the future you'll see him taking this program to the very top." 5 Years Ago: April 24, 2010 The theme of this year's Blue-Gold Game played in front of 27,241 in head coach Brian Kelly's first season is "The Son Also Rises." Junior walk-on quarterback Nate Montana steals the show as his Gold team defeats the Blue, which features starting quarterback Dayne Crist, 27-19. With QB the No. 1 question after junior Jimmy Clausen declared for the NFL Draft, the only ones on the roster are Crist, who is coming off ACL surgery, Montana and early enrollee Tommy Rees. Montana, the son of Notre Dame quarterback icon Joe Montana and a backup at Pasadena City College the year prior, completes 18 of 30 passes for 223 yards, highlighted by touchdown passes of four yards to tight end Mike Ragone, 37 yards to wideout Duval Kamara and a thread-the-needle 14-yard scoring toss to slot Theo Riddick, all during the first half. After establishing himself as at least the No. 2 quarterback on the roster, Montana is put on scholarship by Kelly. — Lou Somogyi Walk-on quarterback Nate Montana stole the show in the first spring game directed by head coach Brian Kelly. PHOTO BY JOE RAYMOND