UNDER THE DOME
"I got out of politics once. I'm not getting back in it."
THEY SAID IT
Notre Dame head coach and former legislative aide Brian Kelly on dealing with his team's spot in the BCS standings
to win a national championship. He agreed that was definitely on his agenda as well. I'm just ready to do whatever I need to do to help us get to that point. … I just want what everybody else on this team wants. I want to have an amazing year, a legendary year." — Irish sophomore Cam McDaniel on his versatile backup role this season
"I told Coach Kelly when I came here that I wanted
a crew cut, as stylish as an Oldsmobile. And if those references seem out of date, that's because it has been some time since the Fighting Irish have been relevant this late in the college football season. Rel- evant, as in crystal-football relevant." — Ivan Maisel, ESPN.com
"Notre Dame's style of football is as fashionable as
but it could swell to unimaginable proportions in the coming weeks. That usually ticks off the large, anti- Notre Dame contingent of the college football public. But so far at least, this particular Irish team does not seem to be eliciting much negativity. For once, it's
students who came out last night when we ar- rived back home at 4:30am. Best student body in the country. #GoIrish" — Irish head coach Brian Kelly on the group of students who were waiting outside the Guglielmino Complex when Notre Dame returned from its win over Oklahoma
"@CoachBrianKelly: Special thanks to all the TWEET OF THE WEEK "Not that Notre Dame hype ever truly subsides,
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