Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME "It might surprise both sides of the aisle to learn that, since the turn of this century, Fighting Irish foot- ball has entered the season ranked eight times, and come in unranked eight times, and that five of those ranked preseason teams have gone on to finish outside of the top 25 cutoff, while four of the unranked teams climbed into the top 25 by season's end." — Holly Anderson of Grantland.com "I think [my announcing style] played a part, but you'd have to talk to NBC management. … NBC had an opinion, which I respect, and at some point I still had to be who I am, which is football guy who uses some vernacular and hopefully tries to explain that. It's up to NBC to decide if I fall short of that."— Foot- ball analyst Mike Mayock, who called Notre Dame games on NBC the past few seasons prior to being removed in favor of Doug Flutie "As a high school senior, I didn't know too much about Notre Dame. I just saw them on NBC every Saturday and I'm like, 'Man, this is cool.' You've got the classic jerseys, and I didn't really know about the Shamrock Series or anything until I got here. There's so much stuff I was learning once I got here, so much stuff I don't know still. High school, I didn't really know too much. Every day here it's like I'm a tourist. You go to Hesburgh Library, [we went] to the Grotto, there's so much stuff I haven't seen that I'm like a tourist every day. I'm on Snapchat like, 'Look at this.'" — Fifth-year senior safety and graduate transfer Avery Sebastian on adjusting to life on the Notre Dame campus "It's a great feeling to be on it and to have Notre Dame represented on Sports Illustrated. Just because you're on it doesn't mean you're going to be successful. It comes down to hard work and discipline, ef- fort and enthusiasm. All those things the coaches talk about. It's something that we're hounding on each day." — Junior linebacker Jaylon Smith on being on the cover of Sports Illustrated, which projects Notre Dame to reach the College Football Playoff THEY SAID IT "Without being glib or wisecracking, for all those coaches that were here less than six years, they all wrote books, right? They had many stories to tell. I'm on my sixth year. I could write several books of what I've learned, and what I continue to learn every day." Brian Kelly when asked about how he is the first head coach since Lou Holtz to reach his sixth season at Notre Dame PHOTO BY JOE RAYMOND TWEET OF THE MONTH @Who_GotJones94: "The surgery went well btw. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. There's no place like Notre Dame. #Team127 will get it poppin!!!" Irish senior defensive lineman Jarron Jones after going down with a season-ending MCL injury