Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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UNDER THE DOME in the early spring. Notre Dame's four spring-only sports — baseball, softball, and men's and women's lacrosse — started the year with a combined 24-6 record at home. Five of those six losses came after April 4. The only team that lost a game at home in February or March was the men's lacrosse team, which dropped a 4-3 overtime decision to a ranked Penn State team Feb. 25. • Notre Dame's women lacrosse team is auctioning special • South Bend has been a friendly place to play for the Irish MISCELLANEOUS NOTES PHOTO BY JOE RAYMOND "[Brian Kelly] has made it apparent to me that I have the art of being a quarterback. It's just the scientific part that I definitely need to develop. … I guess I have to develop to where he can really trust in me and not give him a heart attack hopefully." Sophomore quarterback Everett Golson THEY SAID IT getting heat. That's not fair. That's not fair for a 19-year-old to be hounded by people online on his Facebook and stuff like that. That's not fair. As an older brother, I look at that and I'm just there for him like, 'Hey don't read that stuff.' You do what you gotta do and know that your family here at Notre Dame will always love you no matter what." — Irish senior Manti Te'o on Aaron Lynch's departure "Everybody else cares about what he does, and it's obvious because the poor kid is reasons. It used to be interesting because they were perennial favorites and Rocket Ismail and Rick Mirer and they were trotting all these legends out there of the college game. Now, Notre Dame is like the pre-2004 Boston Red Sox. For whatever reason they can't get out of their own way and I'm starting to wonder if there is a curse." — Ty Hildenbrandt on the Solid Verbal podcast South Bend. To set foot on the campus is to venture into a kind of spiritual theme park. Even if you despise the Fighting Irish, it's tough to sustain that while lighting a candle in the Grotto or seeking a moment of solitude in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Alumni and undergrads are also famously welcoming, which can annoy opposing teams and their supporters, but has always worked for this visitor." — Austin Murphy, Sports Illustrated "If you can attend only one more football game in this lifetime, find your way to The really top schools in the country are mostly in warm weather because kids now have options, because ESPN now puts 700 college football games on, and if I don't have to live in South Bend, Indiana, where it's 9 degrees I'm not going to. … Or I can go to Florida with the baby dolls. You tell me where I want to go if I can run a 4.3. It's not hard to figure out." — Colin Cowherd, ESPN Radio "The reality is the world has changed and it hasn't changed to benefit Notre Dame. they signed with the University of Notre Dame they know that they're going to have to play one of the toughest, if not the toughest, schedule in the country. Not being in a conference we don't have the conference affiliation, we have to have that type of schedule to make sure that when we have the kind of football team that can win those games that we're going to play for a national championship." — Head coach Brian Kelly on ESPN's SportsCenter "I knew what I was getting into [when I took this job] and our players do too. When 12 MAY 2012 "Notre Dame football has sort of done this 180 where it's interesting for all the wrong Brittany Mallory ended her Irish basketball career with two consecutive trips to the Final Four. Still hungry for competi- warm-up jerseys worn prior to their April 28 game against Cincinnati in an effort to raise money for breast cancer aware- ness. The team planned to take part in several events during the weekend as part of the second annual nationwide "Lax for the Cure" push. Last year, the Irish raised more than $6,000 for the Susan G. Komen fund, which was more than anyone else in the country. • Former Irish basketball player Brittany Mallory will finish her last semester at Notre Dame on the lacrosse team. Mal- lory started all 39 games for the women's hoops team during its second straight Final Four run this past season. She was a two-time honorable mention All-American lacrosse player at McDonogh School in Baltimore. She is playing defense for the Irish. tion, she joined the lacrosse team this spring. PHOTO BY JOE RAYMOND team was named a finalist for the Lowe's Senior Class Award in April. Randall is one of 10 players across the country still in the running for the award, which is given out at the end of May. Randall is a cog in Notre Dame's defense, one of three team captains and holds a 3.54 GPA as a civil engineering major. • Notre Dame's soccer teams played their own spring games • Senior defenseman Kevin Randall from the men's lacrosse April 27. The women were slated to take on Haiti's national team and the men welcomed the Mexican U-20 national team, which will feature many of the players that won the U-17 FIFA World Cup last summer. Notre Dame and Mexico have played seven international friendlies in the spring during the last eight years. • Junior setter Maggie Brindock will represent Notre Dame's volleyball team with the U.S. national program this summer. Brindock tried out for the national team in February and missed the cut. Instead she will be one of 48 collegiate players on the A2 team. That group will split into four different teams for a round-robin tournament during the last week of June. — Dan Murphy BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED