When you set these high expectations and goals, and they are demolished so early in the season, that has an effect on the psyche. It wears you down.
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On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.
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The 1973 team is real special. I had never coached against Bear Bryant. Alabama had never played Notre Dame. It was North against South; the Catholics against the Baptists; both teams were undefeated, and everything was on the line.
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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
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That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.
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I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
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