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✦ TOP STORYLINES: NOTRE DAME VS. PURDUE Brees, it joins Alabama (Bart Starr, Ken Stabler and Joe Namath) for most number of quarterbacks to win a Super Bowl. That cradle has been rocked in recent years with injuries and inconsistency: • Senior Caleb TerBush was elected captain this spring and has been the Tommy Rees of Purdue's offense — steady but unspectacular. He's been twice the backup to his competition, Robert Marve and Rob Henry, before Marve tore his ACL in the fourth game of 2010 and Henry tore his ACL prior to the 2011 season. • Sixth-year senior Marve has the can- non arm and potential star power, a la Dayne Crist, after transferring from Mi- ami. He completed 31 passes at Notre Dame in 2010, but they totaled only 220 yards (7.1 yards per completion) in a 23-12 loss. Last year, he was 9-of-22 passing for 91 yards in the 38-10 trounc- ing from the Irish. TerBush led the lone touchdown drive in the closing seconds. • Junior Rob Henry is the dual-threat who replaced the injured Marve in 2010, passing for 996 yards and rushing for 547 en route to getting elected as co-captain in 2011 before the knee injury sidelined him. Unlike Navy with its triple option, Pur- due should give a better test to Notre Dame's green cornerbacks. The issue is who can provide the Boilermakers the best option at quarterback? Like Rees, TerBush served a one-game REMEMBERING A QUICK TURNAROUND Much has been made about Notre Dame needing to overcome the jet lag and get its collective body clock retuned from its trip to Ireland for the Sept. 1 opener against Navy. Will it have a residual effect the next week against Purdue? From what head coach Brian ers, no excuses. We feel great. We think the plan that we have put in place over the long term has really worked out quite well, so we can focus strictly on playing the ball game." One example Notre Dame can turn to with regard to making a quick turnaround suc- 17-3 victory by a rebuilding Irish team that had only two starters returning on offense. Severe traffic congestion didn't allow the players to return to their hotel until 2 a.m. — and the team arrived back on campus on Tuesday afternoon. Consequently, the staff canceled the Tuesday practice for Purdue, which had upset the Kelly saw of his team on Sunday and Monday, he is quite confident it won't. "We had a great shakeout [on Monday]," Kelly said. "My own eyes, talking to our play- cessfully is head coach Dan Devine's first two games with the Irish in 1975. That year, Notre Dame opened on a Monday night at Boston College, a hard-fought Irish 31-20 a year earlier. Notre Dame also would have to drive to Purdue to win their second game in five days. "That was a really rough week," recalled Irish All-America defensive back Luther Bradley (1973, 1975-77). "We didn't practice on Tuesday, and the coaches had to put in the game plan in a hurry. We had a lot of information to digest — plus we had to catch up on our classes because we missed all day Monday and Tuesday. But they expected us to do it and we did." Bradley saved the day when his 99-yard fourth quarter interception return for a touch- down extended Notre Dame's lead to 10-0 in its 17-0 victory at Purdue. Thirty-seven years later, at least the Irish were home by 11:50 p.m. on the Saturday night after the Navy game. They were able to attend classes on Monday and had practice on Tuesday — and don't even have to travel again this weekend. — Lou Somogyi ✦ PAGE 7