You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's hard to say that it gets any better to be at your alma mater and run a major college football program.
If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.
Even at North Dakota State, football is a big deal.
I am a classy dame.
Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what position they wanted me to play.
Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.
I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.
I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.
You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something; you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.