I’ve followed Notre Dame football since 1946, when I listened on the radio and Johnny Lujack tackled Doc Blanchard in the open field to preserve a 0-0 tie.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

I don’t think there’s been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

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.

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of ‚Sports Illustrated.‘ I’m on the cover with the blurb, ‚Can Lou Do It?‘ I’d just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week’s coverage.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.