Hansbrough & Brey -- Big East Honors!!!

Ben Hansbrough was named Big East Player of the Year tonight -- and his coach, Mike Brey was named Big East Coach of the Year!!!  Congratulations!  Here's a link to the Big East's coverage of these major awards:

LINK:  NOTRE DAME TAKES TWO TOP AWARDS!

Big East Championship -- Tonight on ESPN!

Muffet McGraw's Fighting Irish of Notre Dame take on "Goliath" tonight -- on their home court -- for the honor of calling one's team BIG EAST CHAMPION!  Goliath is none other than UCONN -- the team that no one could beat, until Stanford took them down earlier this season.  Irish fans will recall that a few days after Stanford broke UCONN's "million game" (90 game) winning streak -- Notre Dame was well in control of their game against the Huskies -- only to lose the game in the final minute.  The second time they played this season -- not so close...

Will this be one of those "NOTRE DAME MOMENTS" tonight?  Game time is set for 7 PM EST on ESPN -- GO IRISH!  Here's a link to tonight's game notes -- courtesy of UND.COM:

LINK:  GAME NOTES -- ND vs. UCONN

2011 ND vs. USC Game -- Under the Lights?

There's a "twitter" rumor floating around that the 2011 Notre Dame vs. USC game at Notre Dame Stadium -- will be played at night -- in PRIMETIME!  It wouldn't surprise me for two reasons;

1. Brian Kelly has openly "campaigned" for Home Night Games
2. And, for NBC - it's a better "pay day" for advertisers -- much bigger audience at night

If I was running the "new NBC" -- remember, COMCAST just bought them -- I would be pushing Notre Dame to "own Saturday night" -- in the months of September and October.  Moving every home game in those two months to an 8 PM EST kick-off.  Do you agree?

Notre Dame's Response to Sullivan Incident

The University of Notre Dame released a statement today -- outlining the steps it would be taking to ensure that they will no longer be using hydraulic lifts (photo of lift -- after accident) to videotape football practice.  As you'll see in the linked story below -- Notre Dame will begin using multiple 50' poles with remote cameras atop.  Here's the story:

LINK: NOTRE DAME'S NEW APPROACH TO PRACTICE VIDEO