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.
I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.
I coached at Northwestern for eight years, where the admission requirements were high.
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.
There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
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.
On any play where there's a scramble of 22 men, blindside hits and unprotected hits on knees occur.
