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THEY SAID IT "That's the problem. You're not sure whether they'll come out and play the same style of offense that they played last week against Navy. They played a lot of two- and three-tight-end sets, and pounded away with their running game and didn't put a whole lot on their young quarterback, which is probably a good de- cision and very rational and makes a lot of sense, obviously." — Purdue head coach Danny Hope on preparing for Everett Gol- son and the Irish offense we recruited him hard here at Purdue when he was a senior in high school. We thought he would be an excellent tight end prospect. He was a developmental player. He needed to get bigger and stron- ger, and he certainly has, and they do a great job of featuring him in their of- fense." — Hope on Notre Dame tight end Tyler Eifert "He's a heck of an athlete. I remember cess, I saw exhilaration overtake them, the feeling that they could get the job done and how something dramatic was in the making. Practice normally can be drudgery, a grind. But that year the players couldn't wait to come to practice. When it was over, they couldn't wait to start the next day. That whole season was such an upbeat atmosphere. When you walked into the Notre Dame locker room, your spirits were immediately lifted." — Former Irish coach Ara Parseghian on infectious winning during his 1964 season on a recent episode of Blue & Gold Illustrated's Irish Huddle podcast "As soon as they experienced a little suc- ably won't be this cheerful again for a long time given the current state of our soccer and rugby teams, so did the rest of the crowd." — Eamon Sweeney of The Irish Independent on the local perspective of Notre Dame's game in Dublin all this pageantry and spectacle has to do with the actual game. And it's undeniable that someone with a low tolerance for ethnic kitsch, heavy metal riffs and extremely attrac- tive young women doing high kicks while a man with a red beard and green rigout capers beside them with an expression on his face which suggests that Darby O'Gill never had it so good, might have found the proceedings to be a bit of a trial. "But personally I had a ball. And judging from the noise inside the Aviva, which prob- "It's easy, of course, to pour scorn on the American way of sport and to wonder what would have grabbed it and returned it for a touchdown. This year, Golson secured the ball, took the loss, and lived to fight again. Now that's a step in the right direction." — Al Lesar of the South Bend Tribune on Everett Golson's sack in the first quarter against Navy "Last year during the 'season of the turnover,' the ball would have squirted out, Wetzel ✦ PAGE 13 The Irish helped make sophomore quarterback Everett Golson's starting debut successful by pounding Navy on the ground to the tune of 293 yards rushing. PHOTO BY MIKE BENNETT/LIGHTHOUSE IMAGINE