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I I Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1, 1981 2 '80 Overview: Ask the Irish About Emotion John Heisler 4 Purdue: The ?xperts Call It Perfectly Craig Chval 7 Michigan: A Nifty Twist by Oliver Bill Marquard 12 Michigan State: Spartans, Meet Phil Carter Frank LaGrotta 15 Miami: Hurricane Winds Subside Michael Ortman 18 Army: A Day for Defense Brian Beglane 22 Arizona: Kiel's Coming of Age John Heisler ,·'. ···.· l 24 Navy: A First-Rated Win Rick Chryst 26 Georgia Tech: No Respect from Tech Craig Chval 28 Alabama: Surviving the High Tide Frank LaGrotta 31 Air Force: A Finale to Remember Gary Grassey 34 Southern Cal: USC's a Whole New Game Frank LaGrotta 36 Sugar Bowl: Irish Can't Figure the Figures John Heisler 39 Bob Burger: Irish Guard Makes the Grade Vince Turner 41 Edward W. Krause: Moose's Debt Paid in Full Vince Turner 44 Gerry Faust: Those First Faust Impressions Frank LaGrotta 46 Gene Corrigan: The Ultimate Challenge Frank LaGrotta 47 '81 Preview: Faust's First Fling John Heisler 48 1980 Final Notre Dame Football Statistics Irish Eye is a production of the University of Notre Dame Sports Information Department. Executive Editor: Roger 0. Valdiserri; Editor: John E. Heisler; As­ sistant Editor: Karen S. Croake; Staff: Brian Beglane, Rick Chryst, Craig Chval,' Gary Grassey, Frank LaGrotta, Bill Marquard, Michael Ortman. Special thanks to Vince Turner of the-Elkhart Truth for permission to reprint his editorial con­ tributions. Photo Credits: Ed Ballotts, Joe Raymond and the South Bend Tribune Photo Department; Jim Dougherty, Jim Ellis, Loren Fisher, Bruce Harlan, Phil Johnson, Rev. Thomas F. Lallak, Chuck Linster, Br. Charles McBride, Peter Romzick, Arizona Daily Star, Georgia Tech Sports Information Department. Cover Artwork: Jim Wainwright; Cover Design: Mossberg and Company; Printing: Ave Maria Press, Mossberg and Company.© University of Notre Dame, Department of Sports Information, 1981. All rights reserved. 1 '80 Overview Ask the Irish About Emotion By JOHN HEISLER Emotion. It wins and loses football games and seasons as much as talented athletes do. Look· back on the 1980 Notre Dame football season. Think of all the emo­ tional situations in which this Irish team found itself. Think how many more weren't obvious to the average fan ~md only could have been experienced by sitting in the locker room every day with Tom Gibbons and Jim Stone and Scott Zettek. Ask John Scully about emotion. He looks so cool and collected most of the time. He answers the interviewers' ques­ tions with logical, calm assurance. But he knows about the emotion as much as anyone. Ask him. For that matter, ask any of the Irish players. They all know about the love/ hate reaction when anyone mentions Notre Dame. They can't help but feel a part of that image from the minute they reach the campus. Ask them about the emotion of Fri­ day, August 15, the night that Dan. Devine told the team this would be his last season. The surprise, the uncer­ tainty and the timing of the announce­ ment all added to the feeling of that moment. Exactly what effect it had from that night until the day-20 weeks later-when the Irish played in the Sugar Bowl probably never can be ac­ curately measured. Ask them about the emotion of the victory over Michigan-the feeling that only can come from a win of that magnitude in that style. Harry Oliver won't be the only one to remember that September afternoon in Notre Dame Stadium. Ask them about the injuries. Ask them what it's like to see people like Tim Huffman hurt the first day of prac­ tice, to see talents like Phil Carter and Dean Masztak forced to spend more time off the field than on. Ask them how they feel when Robb Gagnon and Don Kidd play their hearts out, only to earn tickets to surgery. And ask them to explain the anguish to Mike Courey, who saw his final season finished by the crack of a bone in his hand. Ask them about that growing feeling that, hey, maybe this season is going to be something really special. · Ask them what it feels like to chalk up 302 Ask Pete Holohan about the emotion he felt after grabbing a 10-yard scoring pass yards on the ground against the best from Mike Conrey to give the Irish a 14-0 edge over Michigan. 2 rushing defense in the country and Alabama became apparent. And ask long last. Ask them how it feels when realize maybe this Notre Dame team is them what it's like to hear you're going you still think you're just as good as the as good as any in the nation. to the Sugar Bowl to play the only un­ other team after the game is over, but Ask the players about the human defeated team left. you just couldn't prove it on the field. stories that made this season. Ask them Ask them abo~t the emotion of play­ Ask Ty Barber how it feels to see about the special feeling between a Phil ing in Notre Dame Stadium for the last Jim Gruden in the locker room, how it Carter and a Jim Stone and the rivalry time. Ask Jim Stone how long he'll re­ feels to shake his hand and try to smile and camaraderie that accompanied the member scoring ·a touchdown the last and say thank you and, yet, wonder roommates' relationship. time he carried the football in a green what happens next. Ask them how it Ask them about the emotion of being jersey. Ask those seniors how long feels to go through those 20 weeks and No. 1, that giddy week the Irish spent they'll remember the last time they know that now it's all over. Ask them atop the polls. Ask them what it's like walked out of that locker room and about that look on Dan Devine's face, when it says officially, on paper, that through that tunnel. about that feeling that somehow it all you-for at least that week-are the Ask the players about the frustration should have ended better than this. best. And ask them about the emotion that is the Los Angeles Coliseum. Ask Ask Gerry Faust about emotion. He they ran into on Grant Field the next them how it feels to see national cham­ kriows it as well as anyone-that's one Saturday as Georgia Tech played the pionship hopes flutter away in the Cali­ of the reasons he's Notre Dame's next game of its season to tie. Notre Dame fornia sun. Ask them how it feels to get football coach. and knock it from that lofty perch. so close to your ultimate goal, and Emotion. Ask the players about Birmingham, then .... It's triumph and despair, · life and the emotion that accompanied that Ask them about the anticipation lead­ death, all wrapped up in one. week and the kind of effect the previous ing up to the Sugar Bowl, the thoughts Ask the players. week's tie had upon it. Ask them about going through Bob Crable's head of It's what makes Notre Dame football that gleeful second when victory over having Her~chel Walker in his grasp at special, 1980 and always. Ask Phil Carter about the emotion he felt after his fourth-period scoring run staked Notre Dame to a late lead against the Wolverines. 3 Purdue The Experts Call It Perfectly By CRAIG CHVAL For once, the experts were right. They had said all along there was no way a freshman starting his first colle­ giate game, no matter how good he had been in high school, could get the job done in this crucial nationally-televised game. You just couldn't go against the experienced veteran quarterback. And the senior did beat the freshman, just like the experts said he would. Experts, meet Mike Courey and Scott Campbell. Courey, a senior, got the starting call for Notre Dame after winning a five­ man derby that included two widely­ heralded freshmen. Campbell opened for Purdue in his first collegiate game because widely-heralded three-year starter Mark Herrmann injured the thumb on his throwing hand during practice earlier in the week. In the end, it hardly mattered who called the signals for either team. Courey, quieting a bevy of skeptics, connected on 10 of 13 passes for 1 ~ 1 yards and a touchdown. Campbell amazed the 59,075 onlookers in Notre Dame Stadium with his 17-for-26 stats for 17 8 yards. And the Irish buried the Boiler­ makers, 31-10, in the earliest season opener in history for either team. If there was ever a game with enough plots and subplots to make a good soap opera, this was it. Notre Dame coach Dan Devine started the ball rolling in mid-August by announcing that 1980 would be the last season of his six years .at the school. Then, from the opening of twice-a-day practice sessions, the big question re­ volved around Notre Dame's revolving quarterback situation.