An old colleague of mine sent this to me this morning. I'm going to be sending it off to my kids shortly. I encourage all to click on this link and explore one's true potential. Your attitude drives your effort -- ARE YOU GIVING IT YOUR BEST? Click on the link:
Made a visit to the Notre Dame campus yesterday afternoon and shot this video of the Fighting Irish players and coaches walking to their practice fields. If you're ever at Notre Dame around 3:15 PM EST during the week, you should walk over to the Labar Practice Fields and catch the Irish walk into practice. The photo is of a "gold football and a gold kicking tee" -- don't know the significance of it, just thought it was unique. Here's a link to the video.
The University of Notre Dame and the City of South Bend have teamed up in creating a program that encourages Notre Dame's 10,000+ students to visit South Bend parks, museums and other attractions. Students will receive a "cultural passport" that contains information on 14 area attractions. When Notre Dame students visit one of these sites, they will get their "passport" stamped and those who visit all 14 will receive a certificate signed by the Mayor and the Dean of their college. The photo above is of one of the attractions in their passport; the Permanent Collection of the South Bend Museum of Art. Here's a link to the South Bend / Mishawaka Convention & Visitors Bureau website and a link to the South Bend Museum of Art's website:
Found this interesting article last night that ran in Sunday's Grand Rapids Press. The West Michigan area has "adopted" Brian Kelly as one of its own from his days at Grand Valley State -- and the area's main newspaper, The Grand Rapids Press, has been quite kind to Coach Kelly since he was announced as Notre Dame's Football Coach. This story covers a number of subjects -- including "expanding" his office space in the Gug. You'll enjoy this article:
Just received an email from Kelly Cares Foundation alerting me that their new website just went LIVE! The photo is of Paqui Kelly, Brian's wife -- of barefoot punting fame! Here's a link -- click on it and join the Kelly Cares Foundation Friendship Club:
Former Notre Dame Football Coach, Lou Holtz offered up his thoughts on Brian Kelly -- and he likes him!!! Here's a link to the story in today's Grand Rapids Press:
The University of Notre Dame is taking a new approach to education this semester -- debuting the University’s first and only class taught using Apple’s new wireless tablet computer to replace traditional textbooks. The course is part of a unique, year-long Notre Dame study of eReaders. Corey Angst, Assistant Professor of Management (that's not Corey in the photo -- that's Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple) is conducting the first phase using iPads, which just went on sale to the public in April. Here's a link to a video -- that you can watch on your iPad!
WNDU=TV's Jeff Jeffers interviewed Notre Dame Head Football Coach, Brian Kelly this week. Here's a link to the interview
Notre Dame Head Football Coach, Brian Kelly will start a "new tradition" for Irish fans. Beginning this Thursday -- and every Thursday thereafter during the season -- Coach Kelly will host his own radio show from Legends, with Jack Nolan, from 7 PM to 8 PM EST. Notre Dame fans can attend the show live at Legends (on the Notre Dame campus) or listen on Audio outlets; WSBT 960AM in South Bend, UND.com, WXNT 1430 AM in Indianapolis, and Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. WSBT, WXNT and und.com will carry the show live; Sirius/XM will carry it the following day at a time to be determined.
University of Notre Dame Head Football Coach, Brian Kelly, was at the podium for 12 minutes -- last night after practice -- and he said some interesting things. Among them; Today's practice will be in Notre Dame Stadium and they'll work on the "49 scenarios that are possible in a college football game." You'll enjoy his explanation. Coach Kelly was also quite candid about whether or not he would have been ready for this job without any previous head coaching experience, and what was his motivation to lose weight -- an obvious slight on the reporter's part to Coach Charlie Weis. Here's a link:
Sports Illustrated came out with their annual College Football Preview issue and their analysis of our Fighting Irish -- which they "tag teamed" with Athlon Sports. Is business that bad that "SI" can no longer do this on their own? Anyway, here's a link to what "they" think of Brian Kelly's first Notre Dame football squad:
When I saw this story, I just had to post it on the blog. Apparently, there are two treadmills set up at work stations on the University of Notre Dame campus -- see photo. WNDU-TV did a story on these "contraptions" -- and I thought I'd share this with you. For the more "experienced" visitors to the NOTRE DAME GO IRISH BLOG I'm guessing you're thinking "George Jetson" right about now: Here's the link:
Found this blog post today at IRISH CREED concerning the ranking of the ten most influential Domers in the history of Notre Dame. The photo is of Father Sorin, the founder of the University of Notre Dame. Thought you would enjoy this!:
NBC's Mike Mayock -- their new TV Analyst for Notre Dame home football games, was on the Dan Patrick Radio Show this morning. Here's a link to the interview - just scroll down to the interview with Mike Mayock:
My brother Jay, who lives in Denver, sent me this link to an interview former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn recently gave to a show called "Movers & Shakers in the Mile High City." Once again, Brady Quinn does Notre Dame proud -- boy, I wish he was having more success! After watching this, I'm sure the TV networks will be "lining up" looking to hire him when he decides to hang it up someday. Here's a link to the interview:
The University of Notre Dame's Women's Volleyball received a verbal commit from one of the top players in the country last week -- and she hasn't event started her "JUNIOR YEAR" in high school! Her name is Taylor Morey and she's out of Burris High School in Muncie, IN. Notre Dame coaches believe Morey might be the top "defensive player" in the nation. Morey's high school team (Burris) is currently ranked #7 in the country in the pre-season polls for girls high school volleyball. FYI: This year's Irish incoming freshman class is ranked 13th best in the country. Here's a link to a couple of stories about Taylor Morey:
Here's a few stories that ran in the last 24 hours concerning Notre Dame Football -- that I thought you'd enjoy. Just click on the links:
Today's Wall Street Journal ranks the "star power" of the top football programs -- via Rivals ranking of football recruits out of high school. And, our Fighting Irish rank third in their "average star ranking" of its projected starters -- as compared to all of the BCS college football teams. I guess ol' Charlie Weis knew how to recruit! The photo is of Notre Dame's Class of 2012 -- taken at the Army All American game in San Antonio -- prior to their arrival at Notre Dame. Rudolph, Floyd, Crist, Flemming, Robinson, Filer, etc. were just a few of the high school All-Americans in this #1 ranked recruiting class in the country. Here's the story: