Noie: How has this happened for Notre Dame football? Here are 12 moments that have helped. You think now because who knows what next week has in store. For you. For Notre Dame football. To make some new history, new memories, new moments with players that this generation actually has seen perform? To see sophomore running back Jeremiyah Love be fully free of any right knee injury issues so that he can kick-start his Heisman campaign at full strength Monday?
To see a patchwork offensive line, pieced together with bubble gum and rosary beads and prayer, hold up for one final minute run where at the end you think, how did they keep that together? To see former athletic director Jack Swarbrick on the field Monday post-game? Nobody wanted to bring another national championship back to his alma mater as badly as Swarbrick. To see Ohio State freshman Jeremiah Smith thrown into wide receiver jail the way he was against Texas?
To remember the look on the face β somewhere between bewildered and bemused β of linebacker Jack Kiser as he surveyed the locker room scene in South Florida? To have this team enjoy everything about Monday, should they win, and not turn the page so quickly to thoughts i. That will be here before you know it. To never forget the pain and suffering that Notre Dame was part of in New Orleans? Life is bigger than a game. To have everyone experience the coolness of at least one police escort down a major interstate and see the looks on the faces of drivers when they learn the bus was just a bunch of media dopes?
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Thoughts about Notre Dame football while counting down the hours until Monday's kickoff. Tom Noie South Bend Tribune. Facebook Twitter Email.
