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UNDER THE DOME THEY SAID IT "He's just scratching the surface. … As I told him, the discipline to play quarterback is incredible. Because it requires a mental discipline and it requires a discipline in the scope of that's when you've got to take a sack. And you don't want to. And that's the hardest thing. Those are the things that he's learning." Kelly on sophomore quarterback DeShone Kizer's potential "Don't be surprised if [Syracuse athletics director Mark] Coyle, who was Boise State's AD before Cuse hired him in June, targets a 'hot' offensive guy to try and give his program a much-needed jolt. The two names that are likely to get a long look from Coyle: former Boise State OC Mike Sanford, now the offen- sive coordinator and QB coach at Notre Dame, and Oregon OC Scott Frost, who actually interviewed for the Boise State head coaching job when Bryan Harsin got it." — FOX Sports reporter Bruce Feldman on Irish offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike Sanford being a candidate for the head coach opening at Syracuse "I think Mike obviously understands, as the coaches do, that there's a time and place for it. I've talked to him about it. His focus is here at Notre Dame and he wants to be here at Notre Dame. "And we have a job to do and that is to finish this off. So he's not affected by the noise. He knows that, as a lot of our coaches know, their names are going to be thrown around, especially when you're suc- cessful. But he's 100 percent focused on this football team." — Head coach Brian Kelly on rumors that Sanford is a candidate for open head coaching jobs "The one thing, if we have a weakness, when we feel the game is in our hands, we let up a little bit. That's unfortunate, but it's a little bit of who we are. And I'd like to have a little bit more of a killer in- stinct as a football coach. … I look at our football team and they have so many other great qualities as a football team, that if that's our weakness where we feel like we've got the game in control, we'll try to work through that one." — Kelly on what he perceives as the defense's primary weakness — closing out games strongly TWEET OF THE WEEK @Who_GotJones94: "It officially has been one year since I have played in a game... Wow..." Senior nose guard Jarron Jones, who suffered a season-ending Lisfranc injury last November and was lost for the entire 2015 regular season after suffering a knee injury in fall practice PHOTO BY BILL PANZICA