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UNDER THE DOME "If you want to be a good coach, you should double major in communications and marketing. That's really our whole job. Whether it's recruiting, whether it's talking to alumni, whether it's talking to you [the media], it's how well can you commu- nicate with people and how well can you sell. … I think it's not that hard." Irish offensive coordinator Chuck Martin THEY SAID IT dium a tougher place to play. It's not tough enough for our opponent to play and we have to get better at it. We still want to be the most welcoming place in the country. We want to still be a place where when other schools come they say that was a marvelous experience for us. But I don't want athletic directors telling me we love playing here, which is what they say to me with some frequency." — Notre Dame athletics director Jack Swarbrick "We're going to continue to look for ways to make the sta- PHOTO BY JOE RAYMOND take it down a literal peg. We can't demote Notre Dame from its conference — since it is far too noble to belong to any piddling conference — but we can demote it in stature. … When your NBC contract expires in 2015, do the right thing and don't renew. Lower some expectations until you can turn this thing around. And you're a Mars Rover trip from turning it around." — Rick Reilly, ESPN.com "If Notre Dame isn't a factor this season — and it hasn't been a factor in almost 20 years — it's time to these things offered to you and tell me you wouldn't take them, and I will flat out call you a liar. … Don't tell me all the perks are their fault. If you don't like what they're doing and don't think their relevant, if they try to flex their muscle they should be shot down. But, guess what Rick? They're not being shot down." — Radio talk show host and former Notre Dame football player Mike Golic, responding to Reilly on Mike & Mike in the Morning "Put yourself in Notre Dame's shoes. Be an independent for as long as you've been an independent, get Zalejski shined in South Bend before he was ever part of the Fighting Irish. The local half- back from Washington High did not lose any games while he was at Notre Dame. PHOTO COURTESY NOTRE DAME MEDIA RELATIONS very long if in fact it ever comes about. Within a conference you've got somebody at the top and you've got somebody at the bottom and those very large conferences are going to have too many teams at the bottom. They're not too big to fail." — Former Notre Dame athletics director Dick Rosenthal "I really think the so-called 16-team super conference is probably not something that's going to endure for @NDMikeBrey: "Me and my dawg 2 Chainz" — Men's basketball coach Mike Brey tries to add to his street cred by posing for an airport photo with popular rap artist 2 Chainz TWEET OF THE WEEK Ernie Zalejski (1946-49) died Aug. 5 at age 85. One of the greatest athletes ever to come from South Bend (Washington High School), Zalejski was part of only one de- feat in his three varsity seasons at Washington and none during his four-year career at Notre Dame when the Irish were 36-0-2 with three national titles. A World War II veteran, Za- ERNIE ZALEJSKI: 1925-2012 Former Notre Dame halfback lejski rushed for 154 yards and 11 yards per carry as a 1946 fresh- man before injuries hampered his career the next two seasons. Then as a senior for the 1949 10-0 national champs, he scored five times and averaged 5.9 yards on his 29 carries. Even though he was the backup to Frank Spaniel that season, Za- lejski was the 62nd pick in the 1950 NFL Draft (fifth round) and played one year for the Baltimore Colts before beginning a career in coaching and working for the U.S. Treasury Department. 12 PRESEASON 2012 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED