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Gasping for air Notre Dame offense sputters in rain against Michigan as team gets blown out in the Big House

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Irish junior running back Jafar Armstrong and junior tight end Cole Kmet are dragged down by a Michigan special teams member on a kickoff return. Armstrong, after injuring himself on the opening drive against Louisville, made his return during the 30-27 Irish victory over USC. Against Michigan, he recorded only three rushing yards on three carries.

ND’s offensive philosophy needs drastic change Hayden Adams Associate Sports Editor

It’s a trend that’s been making its way through pretty much all sports. The old phrase “defense wins championships” is essentially moot in 2019.

In the MLB this season, 6,776 total home runs were hit, breaking the previous record set only two years ago of 6,105. In the NBA, teams are constantly breaking franchise records for 3-pointers attempted and made in a season as position-less basketball has become the norm. Even in the NFL, offenses have experienced an uptick with more and more teams becoming quarterback-centric.The simple truth is that success in sports calls for offense, offense and more offense.

This should have been made painfully evident to Notre Dame, far earlier than most.

If the need for offensive innovation and revolutionizing see ADAMS PAGE 2

By JACK CONCANNON Sports Writer

It started around 3 p.m.

Driving rain that soaked Michigan Stadium’s turf field, pooling in the corners and creating a slick surface.

It pounded down most of the game, making special teams difficult and passing nearly impossible. These conditions posed an equal challenge for both teams, but it was the Wolverines that found a way to thrive in the downpour.

The rain forced both teams to run the ball, and Irish fans’ fears of Georgia’s D’Andre Swift cutting through the inexperienced Irish front seven were realized a few weeks behind schedule. On the other side of the ball, the Wolverines’ run game was similarly dominant. They totaled 303 yards on the ground, choosing to run the ball 57 times compared to just 14 pass attempts. Senior safety Alohi Gilman said the Irish did expect Michigan’s emphasis on the run.

“We anticipated it, especially with the weather conditions. They came out and ran the ball, they ran the ball well,” Gilman said. “We just did not execute or do what we were supposed to do.”

The Irish had their chances

early in the game to establish momentum. After their first drive stalled out, a roughing the punter penalty gave them new life and great field position.

They failed to take advantage, with penalties and poor execution putting the Irish into an impossible second down and nineteen. They were forced to punt, giving away their second chance to establish themselves early.

By contrast, Michigan took advantage of early Irish mistakes. After Bo Bauer partially blocked a Wolverines punt, the ball rolled weakly to the 33-yard line, where it would have been Irish ball had it not been touched. Instead, senior linebacker Jonathan Jones made an attempt to recover the loose football, and by touching it allowed it recovered by the Wolverines. They took back over and drove down to the Irish two-yard line, settling for three points and taking a lead they would not give back. Irish head coach Brian Kelly described the blocked punt as a lapse in decision-making.

“There was no confusion.

What happens in the moment has an effect on somebody’s judgment,” Kelly said.

“Everybody knows what they’re supposed to do at that

time, but that’s where you have to over-communicate and over-coach, and unfortunately we touched that ball in that situation and caused it to become a free ball again.”

After taking that 3-0 lead, the Wolverines did not look back. They embraced the field conditions, keeping the ball on the ground and dominating in the process. By the end of the first half the home team was up 17-0; they had attempted just four passes, and they had 167 yards on the ground.

At that point, Irish senior quarterback Ian Book had completed four of 13 passes, and the team had comparably little success keeping the ball on the ground, gaining just 20 yards on 15 carries.

Kelly described the game plan and gave credit to Michigan’s defense. “[The plan was to] run the football to set up opportunities to throw the ball down the field, which has been the case every week with this offense,” Kelly said. “That defense is set up with a very aggressive tilt towards making it difficult to run the football, but you still have to find ways to throw the football. We were just not effective in doing so. When we see BLOWOUT PAGE 3

Irish defense gves up 303 rushing yards in deluge

By JACK CONCANNON Sports Writer

Many questioned whether the Irish would be able to stop the run this season after losing play makers like linebackers Drue Tranquill and Te’Von Coney and defensive tack le Jerr y Tiller y off last year’s defense. Analysts circled the Georgia game, predicting that that would be the day that Notre Dame’s cobbled-together front seven would get exposed.

Except it was not exposed that day. The opposite happened, w ith defensive coordinator Clark Lea finding a way to get the absolute most out of linebackers graduate student Asmar Bilal, junior Drew W hite, junior Jeremiah Ow usu-Koramoah and others to hold D’Andre Sw ift to a respectable 98 yards rushing.

Their performance since then has been even more stout, w ith the last 100yard rusher coming against Louisv ille in week one when see DEFENSE PAGE 3

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wasn’t apparent to the Irish in 2012, a year their defense almost single-handedly led them to the national championship game — the offense averaged only 25.8 points per game — but came up short against Alabama, then it most certainly should be after Saturday night.

Put aside the final result.

The fact that Notre Dame fell behind 17-0 to a Michigan team that has struggled all season to find a pulse offensively, even one that came back from a 21-7 halftime deficit at Penn State to lose 28-21, is incredibly disconcerting.

In all fairness, there are criticisms to be made against the defense and special teams units as well.

At the very least, though, the defense has the excuse of youth at the linebacker position, especially considering the linebackers were forced to make plays as the torrential downpour led the Wolverines to rely heavily on the ground game.

But at the minimum, this Notre Dame offense should be able to make enough plays to keep the game close

throughout and never require a massive comeback effort; that is, if the Irish are truly a national-championship-caliber team.

I get that the aforementioned rain played a factor, but they knew this was coming. If head coach Brian Kelly said they could crank the volume of their new indoor practice facility up to 120 decibels to prepare for Georgia, and they couldn’t turn on the sprinklers to simulate getting wet for Michigan, then it wasn’t worth the price tag.

And to be frank, the rain didn’t make taking offensive risks impossible. In the first quarter, senior quarterback Ian Book took a shot to Chase Claypool on the sideline and the senior wide receiver made an incredibly difficult catch for a first down.

In the second quarter, with the Irish in great field position, Claypool made another incredible catch to put Notre Dame in scoring position despite a defensive pass interference, but it was called back because of an ineligible receiver downfield (on a personal note, the stupidest penalty in the history of sports).

Even senior running back

Tony Jones Jr. made an incredible catch falling down, so the Irish had personnel with the ability to make play.

Junior tight end Cole Kmet didn’t even get a single target in the first half.

Instead of pushing the envelope and taking some risks that could have worked out, and a few of them likely would have given Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown’s penchant for bringing pressure and leaving his secondary on an island, Notre Dame offensive coordinator Chip Long did what he’s done his entire Notre Dame tenure: he was conservative.

He chose to run the ball against a Michigan defense that had his number, and one that has had his number dating back to the final three quarters of last season’s season-opening Irish win over the Wolverines.

After taking deep shots with then-Irish quarterback Brandon Wimbush to wide receivers Miles Boykin and now-graduate student Chris Finke, Notre Dame went up 14-0 and their defense essentially took care of the rest. The Irish mustered only one more touchdown and a field goal, which was just enough for a defense

that held Michigan to 10 offensive points and a special teams unit that gave up a kick return touchdown in the second half.

The same couldn’t be said four months later in a 30-3 Irish shellacking at the hands of Clemson.

This season, Notre Dame doesn’t have Drue Tranquill and Te’von Coney at linebacker, nor All-American Julian Love at cornerback; yet this offensive stagnation remains a recurring pattern.

Notre Dame only went up 7-0 on Georgia because Claypool recovered a muffed punt in the red zone. They also had three straight three-andouts that resulted in Georgia field goals and exhausted their defense.

The following week against Virginia at home, the Irish fell behind 17-14 at the half and had to rely on multiple fumble recoveries by the defense, one returned for a touchdown, to get a 35-20 win.

I could go on, but I think that six combined completions in the first half between the two teams speaks for itself as an embarrassment to Long and the offense. By the time you’ve dug yourself a 17-0 hole, more and more pressure is

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Irish senior linebacker Jonathan Jones chases after the ball on a blocked Michigan punt during Notre Dame’s 45-14 loss to the Wolverines on Oct. 26 in the Big House.

mounting on your defense as every second ticks off the game clock. Eventually they reach a breaking point, as disappointing as it is for former head coach Ara Parseghian’s words to no longer ring true.

Football is a cooperative effort; it’s about yin and yang. To see what happens without that balance, look no further than earlier in the day when Oklahoma lost to Kansas State by giving up 48 points. Or look a week prior when Texas nearly lost to Kansas at home by giving up 48 as well.

The only difference is that this Irish coaching staff refuses to open up the offense and take risks until it’s too late. It’s the mentality that’s held Georgia back under Kirby Smart.

Notre Dame’s defense made plays against the Wolverines early in the second half to keep the Irish in it, as they have done almost all season. But against a tough opponent, the offense let the team down as usual.

Irish sophomore linebacker Bo Bauer looks on after senior linebacker Jonathan Jones made contact with the ball on a blocked punt, allowing Michigan to retain possession.

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Bo Bauer Blocks a punt and michigan recovers on a fumble

notre dame linebacker drew white

With 9:45 left in the first quater, the Notre Dame defense forced Michigan to punt from their endzone. Irish sophomore linebacker Bo Bauer managed to get around the blockers and managed to get his fingertips on the ball. However, as the ball was rolling downfield, Irish senior linebacker Jonathan Jones attempted to fall on it and touched it, allowing the Wolverines to recover the ball and steal back the momentum.

One of the lone bright spots for the Irish was the play of junior linebacker Drew White.

Although the Notre Dame defense allowed 303 yards rushing on the game, they limited the Wolverines for most of the game. It took the Wolverines 57 rushing attempts to reach their total, resultig in a 5.3 yards/carry average. White was a key contributor to the run defense, recording a career-high 11 tackles, six of them coming unassisted.

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Professor dies at 71 University mourns philosophy faculty member Mic Detlefsen Observer Staff Report

Michael “Mic” Detlefsen, the McMahon-Hank professor of philosophy at Notre Dame, died Monday at 71, the University announced in a press release Wednesday.

Detlefsen taught at Notre Dame for 35 years. His scholarship focused on the intersection between philosophy and mathematics, with a particular focus on the history of mathematics, logic and epistemology. He was editor for the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, a scientific journal on mathematical logic.

Detlefsen’s work brought him international attention. In addition to several visiting appointments at universities in Europe, he served as Senior Chaire d’Excellence in the French government’s Agence National de la Recherche from 2007 to 2012.

According to the release, he

also received honors at Notre Dame, including the University Research Achievement Award in 2016 and the Rev. James A. Burns, C.S.C., Award for Exemplary Contributions to Graduate Education in 2015.

Philosophy professor Patricia Blanchette remembered Detlefsen as an influential international scholar of philosophy.

“Mic’s work to bring together the philosophy of mathematics communities in Europe and North America has been enormously important to the development of the field,” Blanchette said in the release. “His annual philosophy of math seminar in Paris has provided an opportunity for scholars in western Europe to get together with scholars from the U.S., and for the philosophy of mathematics community in Paris to be enriched immeasurably.”

Professor of philosophy and philosophy department chair Jeff Speaks noted Detlefsen’s role

Former Mendoza administrator Jack Keane dies Observer Staff Report

John “Jack” Gorman Keane, who ser ved as Martin J. Gillen dean emeritus and Korth professor of strategic management in the Mendoza College of Business, died Thursday at the age of 89, the Universit y announced in a Monday press release.

Keane ser ved in the role from 1989 - 1997 and in the latter from 1989 - 2010.

According to the release, his key priorities as dean were “strengthening the college’s academic reputation” w ith an emphasis on “business ethics and international business.”

He also focused on increasing the diversit y of the student body and facult y of the business school.

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in building Notre Dame’s philosophy program.

“Notre Dame has been one of the best places in the world to study the philosophy of mathematics for decades, and that is very largely due to Mic’s importance and influence in the field,” Speaks said in the release. “He has been a leader in our department, and a mentor to students and faculty alike. It is difficult to imagine the place without him.”

A Nebraska native, Detlefsen graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College in Illinois and a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He is survived by his wife and three children.

A visitation will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at McGann Hay Granger Chapel.

A memorial service will take place Sunday at 3 p.m. at Church of the Savior in South Bend.

Friends of the Detlefsens are invited to visit with the family an hour before the service.

ND hires SMC health director

By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Editor

Elizabeth “Izzy” Fourman, director of health and counseling at Saint Mary’s, will leave the College on Friday to take a position at Notre Dame, the College announced in a Monday email.

“Izzy has worked for Saint Mary’s for nine years and has been an outstanding advocate for student health on our campus,” Karen Johnson, vice president for student affairs, said in the email. “We will truly miss her.”

Johnson said in an email to The Observer that Fourman gave the College 30 days notice of her resignation.

The College will look for a replacement for Fourman “very soon,” Johnson said.

In the meantime, Saint Mary’s has instituted a management plan for the interim.

The College’s plan, Johnson remarked, is to immediately hire a part-time nurse practitioner to supplement the hours in which Fourman saw patients.

“Izzy did not see patients full time as she had many administrative duties to complete,” Johnson said. “Others on the team will assist with the administrative duties.”

Counselors will not be expected to take on other duties in light of Fourman’s absence, Johnson said.

Besides the nurse practitioner, no others will be hired to fulfill the interim between Fourman’s absence and the hiring of a full-time replacement.

Editor’s Note: This staff report was updated to feature additional quotes on Oct. 28.

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Appalachia Seminar students return from trip

By ALYSA GUFFEY News Writer

Emeritus Fr. Edward Malloy said Keane’s work centered on ethics and sy nthesizing the “theoretical and practical” elements of a business career.

“Jack Keane was a devoted Notre Dame dean and a consummate professional who always emphasized the moral dimension of business and the need for creative and effective leadership,” Malloy said in the release.

“He sought to integrate the theoretical and practical as manifest in government ser v ice and the world of business.”

Keane graduated w ith undergraduate degrees from Notre Dame and Sy racuse Universit y, the release said.

He earned his MBA from

Students enrolled in the Appalachia Seminar this semester traveled to the Appalachia region over fall break as a part of the immersion component of the one-credit course.

With 203 students enrolled in the seminar this fall, trips were made to 20 different sites across the region.

Adam Gustine, assistant director of social concerns seminars, said the immersion program stresses meeting communities where they are and learning from encounters with members of the community.

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Students paint the bathroom walls of the David School. The group served the elementary school in Kentucky as part of their seminar.

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Band goes to Cleveland for annual service trip

By MAEVE FILBIN Saint Mary’s News Editor

Over fall break, 44 members of the Notre Dame Band traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, to participate in the group’s annual ser v ice trip. The students spent four days completing various projects in Cleveland and dedicated an additional day of ser v ice to the Green Bridge Growers, an urban farming communit y in South Bend.

Saint Mar y’s sophomore Sam Miller, one of three student ser v ice commissioners who organized this year’s trip, said the students who participated created a playground and cleaned up a local beach. The students also worked w ith groups such as the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, MedWish International, Laura’s House, Green Corps, Drink Local Drink Tap and Metro Catholic Elementar y School.

“By ser v ing the communit y of Cleveland, w ith the vast amount of people on the trip, we were able to positively impact the communit y in a brief amount of time,” Miller said in an email. “Due to the size of the group, we were able to impact the communit y by packaging hundreds of meals at the food bank, repackaging discarded medical supplies to send to third world countries, cleaning up 39 pounds of trash during the beach clean-up, turning a parking lot into a playground by painting various playground games and harvesting final crops before w inter.”

The band members especially enjoyed their time working w ith Metro Catholic Elementar y School and

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Band members high-five students at Metro Catholic Elementary School in Cleveland, Ohio, where they painted playground games on the blacktop. The band also gave a private performance for the students.

Laura’s House, an emergency shelter for women and children escaping domestic v iolence, Miller said.

“At these locations, we were able to directly work and engage w ith the people we were ser v ing,” she said.

“We played games w ith the kids at these locations and also played concerts.”

These projects brought members of the band closer to the Cleveland communit y, as well as to each other, Miller said.

“W hen band members come together to ser ve a communit y, it forms a bond bringing people from various

backgrounds and sections together to achieve a common good,” Miller said.

Saint Mar y’s junior A llison Okeley, another ser v ice commissioner, said this sense of communit y was cultivated during the long Cardinal bus ride from South Bend to Cleveland as well as through the generosit y of the Notre Dame alumni from the Notre Dame Club of Cleveland, who hosted the band members in their homes for t wo nights.

The sleeping arrangements varied from night to night, Okeley said, w ith all 44 band members spending

one night on a g y mnasium f loor. Another night, eight members were hosted by a Notre Dame alum and member of the Notre Dame Club of Cleveland whose propert y was large enough to double as hunting grounds, she said.

“They had separate w ings to their house,” Okeley said.

“Each one of those eight boys got their ow n room.”

As acting ser v ice commissioners, Okeley said she, Miller and Notre Dame junior Daniel Griffin were in charge of planning ever y aspect of the ser v ice trip.

“Something that’s actually

really cool about it is that the trip is entirely studentrun and student-led,” she said. “A ll three of us planned prett y much ever y detail of the trip, dow n to where the bus parks, where we ate, how much money we were going to spend on things, the different homestays, who was stay ing w ith whom.”

The trip prov ided band members w ith the unique opportunit y to travel outside of the tri-campus communit y, popping the collegiate “bubble,” Okeley said.

“Doing ser v ice trips just is a fun way to get out of the communit y and do something different,” she said.

“So the ser v ice trip is one of the only events that we do that is not focused around our instruments. It’s a lot of ver y t y pical ser v ice, and it gets out into a different communit y other than Notre Dame.”

The four days spent on the road and in the Cleveland communit y also allowed the band members to build relationships across sections, bringing players of all different instruments in the band closer together, Okeley said.

“Something that is really cool w ith this trip specifically is that it allows you to meet a lot of different people in different sections and w ith different age groups” she said. “We spent a lot of the time in the g y m. We played a big game of knockout but then we also just spent a lot of time talking. …

I talked to people that I had never talked to before and got to get to know them.”

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Journalist explores role of religion in China

By ANNE ELIZABETH BARR News Writer

Ian Johnson, 2001 Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, discussed the role of religion in Chinese society during his lecture titled “Religion in China: Back to the Center of Politics and Society.” The event was sponsored by the McGrath Institute for Church Life and the USChina Catholic Association and took place in the Eck Visitors Center Auditorium on Monday.

Johnson moved to Beijing in 2009 and has lived there since, working for publications such as The New York Times and The New York Review of Books, as well as for the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies. His most recent book, “The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao,” was released in 2017 and discusses these issues.

Johnson began his discussion with a historical background of China’s relationship with religion during the late 19th century reform movements.

“This was pretty much a topdown enterprise driven by elites in China who felt that their country was losing ground to the West — that there was something wrong with Chinese culture, especially with Chinese religion,” Johnson said.

He described this general trend of governmental distaste for religion as continuing into the 20th century communism under Mao; however, he cited a recent modern shift in government view of religion from avoidance to acceptance of traditional Chinese religious practices.

“I think the government’s policy, broadly speaking — and there are exceptions to all of this

— is support of some religions and suspicion to downright hostility toward other religions,” Johnson said. “The religions that are supported are the traditional religions.”

Johnson described the government’s renewed interest and support of traditional cultural religions through propaganda and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage projects. “[The Chinese Government] redefined folk religious practice as intangible cultural heritage,” Johnson said. “Not all of intangible cultural heritage is religious but a fair amount of it is.”

Johnson discussed the large implications of such cultural heritage projects for acceptance of previously scorned traditional religions. “[These religions] are no longer declared superstitious,” Johnson said. “They have the benefit of

government support … it is that government support that matters and gives prestige. They are no longer looked down upon.”

Johnson then discussed religions facing persecution in China — particularly Christianity and Islam — which he referred to as the “foreign faiths.” He presented the audience with images of crosses on buildings being removed, video surveillance of religious sites and government-run re-education camps for Muslims living in China.

However, Johnson asserted that many ordinary religious practices, particularly related to Christianity, are still carried out throughout the country.

“There are real problems going on, but there is also a lot of normal religious life that goes on despite the problems,” he said. “Not to try to whitewash it or sugarcoat it, but I think it is important

to remember in a big country like China, when we are talking about religions with millions and tens of millions of numbers, it’s not as if everybody is under pressure.”

Despite the continuing persecution of religious groups in China, Johnson expressed optimism regarding the recent increase of religious practice in the country.

“What I find more interesting is that religion, from being a marginalized part of Chinese society, is back in the center,” he said. “It is back in the center in a good way — people search for values and search for meaning in life, things that are important issues in our own society — but also in the nitty gritty political world as well.”

Contact Anne Elizabeth Barr at abarr2@nd.eu

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another kind of communit y to learn from a place that might be different than the place we grew up,” Gustine said. “A ll [sites] have this common thread of encountering people and learning to be good question-askers in someone else’s home.”

The trip centers around the histor y and culture of the Appalachia region w ith an emphasis on the social and economic challenges each site faces. “[The Appalachia region] has been a significant source of Catholic social teaching,” Gustine said. “Ever y time we have a seminar, we are thinking about the Catholic social tradition and our ow n indiv idual responsibilities and different things that we might see and learn.”

Sophomore Maria Teel said in an email she saw the Appalachia seminar as a gateway for greater involvement in the Center for Social Concerns (CSC).

“I had heard a lot of great things from people who went in the past and felt that it was a good introductor y way to be involved w ith the CSC,” Teel said. “I also wanted to learn more about povert y in a different area of the countr y that I’d never been to before and didn’t know much about.”

Over the midterm break, Teel traveled to Dav id, Kentuck y. She v isited the Dav id School to immerse herself into the experience and firsthand challenges the communit y faces in the local education system.

“This site gave me perspective into the education system, challenges to education in Kentuck y and alternative education strategies,” she said. “We spent half of ever y day shadow ing a student in their classes and the other half of the day doing a project around the school.

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Indiana Universit y and his Ph.D. from the Universit y of Pittsburgh. He also studied at Sophia Universit y in Tok yo.

Before joining the Notre Dame facult y, Keane ser ved as the 18th director of the Census Bureau during the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 1984 - 1987.

connections and spend time w ith students.”

Senior Julia Cogan, a leader for one of the immersion trips this fall, is in her second year of the seminar program. Cogan said both of her experiences w ithin the Appalachia program allowed her to gain a unique ser v ice perspective on the region and its challenges.

“Appalachia was a really good way for me to focus in on a whole area and whole group of people that often get forgotten in America, and I think that’s really important because you can easily look to other places that are foreign ser v ice trips,” Cogan said.

Over break, Cogan’s group ser ved at the BinnsCounts Communit y Center in Clinchco, Virginia. Cogan spoke to the tight-knit communit y she encountered in Clinchco.

“One thing that was cool was that we got to meet w ith different members of the communit y, and we stayed at a center that has bunk beds and different stuff,” Cogan said. “They also have a really good relationship w ith the people who live in the communit y because it’s founded and run by communit y members.”

Leading up to the immersion trip, students in the Appalachia program attend class once a week. The course continues after the trip.

Cogan said the class sessions allowed her to gain insight on Appalachia while getting to know her fellow students going on the trip.

“I read a couple books before I went this year and felt like I’d learned a lot more about the region,” Cogan said. “But the class is mostly just really good to spend time w ith your team … and as a leader, I really liked just seeing ever ybody that was going to be there w ith me.”

In class meetings following the trip, the students ref lect on their trip and create a final project to share

During his time as director, Keane testified before Congress more than 40 times and signed agreements w ith a number of different nations, including the Sov iet Union, China, Mex ico and Canada, among others.

Keane was also an Air Force veteran who ser ved in the Korean War w ith private sector experience at J. Walter Thompson, Booz A llen Hamilton and Managing Change Inc., the latter of which he founded.His

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Notre Dame students spending the week in David, Kentucky, spent half of each day shadowing students at the David School. The rest of the day was spent doing various tasks around the school, including painting.

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Notre Dame junior Patrick Cremin gives a lesson on circuitry to students at the David School. The David School, which specializes in helping disadvantaged youth, was one of 20 sites for the fall 2019 seminar.

their personal Appalachia experience.

Cogan said her group’s project from last year holds special significance to her now.

“Last year, my group made a v ideo w ith short clips

and pictures,” Cogan said.

“Watching the v ideo over makes me sentimental, but it’s a great way to be able to look back and remember the experience I had w ith the communit y and my small group.”

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academic areas of expertise “included corporate strateg y, strategic management, family enterprise, business histor y and international management.”

Professor emeritus of finance Frank Reilly praised Keane’s dedication to his family and his efforts to obtain a new building for the College of Business.

“In his personal life, Jack was a fabulous family person who was an incredible husband and lov ing father,”

Reilly said in the release.

“During his professional career as the dean, he was devoted to the construction of a new building that enhanced the teaching env ironment for a rapidly grow ing student body and attracted outstanding facult y from nationally renow ned universities. Clearly, this building has contributed to our grow th in prestige among major business schools, and for that we w ill be forever grateful.”

Keane is sur v ived by his w ife, Rosemarie, as well as his children John W. Keane, Janmarie Keane Schnabel and Sharon Keane.

A v isitation w ill occur from 1 - 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday at South Bend’s Kaniewski Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian Burial w ill take place the same afternoon at 3:30 p.m. in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on campus.

Keane will then be buried in Notre Dame’s Cedar Grove cemetery.

The Appalachia seminar w ill also be offered for the spring semester w ith an immersion trip during spring midterm break.

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Solidarity

Inside Column

Senior scaries

Ashton Weber Welcome to Ashtown

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Every Thursday as the exhausting week winds down, my best friends and I gather for a tradition called Wine and Whine. Whether that exhaustion is from exams or staying until close at Newfs, we gather with glasses of wine in our hands, toasting to the joys and sorrows of senior year.

We are able to whine about one thing that has bothered us that week. Once wined, we cannot whine about that one thing for the rest of the week. With Halloween only a few short days away, there is only one appropriate topic for this week’s whine: senior scaries.

While I walk through Saint Mary’s campus, I am often filled with mixed emotions of how my senior year will play out. Upperclassmen are quick to criticize the scared, apprehensive and clueless faces of the freshman, but when I look at them, I am looking into a mirror. I am just as scared and clueless as they are; I envy that they still have three more years at the best place on Earth.

Seniors may act like they have it all together, but trust me — we don’t. Looking back, my biggest concern was whether I would end up at Hesburgh or Newfs on a Wednesday night. Now, my biggest concern is deciding what city I want to end up living in or if I will have a job that makes me genuinely happy.

After six semesters and 830 days at Saint Mary’s, I am able to navigate around the place I call home, but I am unsure of the rapidly approaching future awaiting me in 203 days.

Senior year is about making lasting memories, but it is also about figuring out how to grow up. I was a senior four years ago, so this feeling isn’t foreign to me; however, this time it is different. Before, the majority of my high school graduating class was moving onto the same step. We all had a general idea that we would be continuing our education for the next four years.

Fast forward four years, I look at my classmates and they are either accepting full-time offers, actively applying for jobs, taking a year off to travel or applying to grad school.

Before we were in the same boat, but now we are individually trying to figure out where we fit in this world.

When you make it to your senior year, stress is guaranteed. You not only have the stress of ending strongly academically, but you also have the stress of facing your adult future in eight short months. This stress cannot overtake you; you must balance what is actually important to you and what you want to remember.

Like they say, “You can always retake the class but you cannot relive the party.”

Everything senior year turns into “the last” of something. This year will be the last time you see your friends every single day, the last time you have to do awkward ice breakers, the last time you experience walking into the football stadium as an undergraduate or the last time you call Marky Mark for a $2 cab ride.

College happened in the blink of an eye and so will senior year. I wish all of the seniors good luck in our last year of what I like to say is “our vacation period before adulthood.”

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I filled the summer of 2017 with excerpts of writing by philosophers and revolutionaries and people who changed the course of history. I was completing the World Youth Alliance’s Certified Training Program, a three-month human dignity education curriculum. At the time, I was interested in pursuing a degree in international affairs and working in human rights law. Thus, a program that studied the philosophical foundations of human dignity, how it has been upheld or ignored historically and how it should be recognized internationally seemed like the perfect fit.

After one-and-a-quarter years in college, I don’t really see myself entering the legal arena anytime soon, but the program provided me with an interesting lens to view the world. A lens that still plays a large role in shaping my opinions of modern political and social issues and that now informs my view of Church reform, which has become the signature topic of this column.

Throughout the course of the program, I spent countless hours reading works by people whose impact I was familiar with and whose thoughts I had heard many times. Between the most wellknown thinkers, I also read work from people who were brand new to me. One such work was the chapter “The Solidarity Decade” from the book “God’s Playground: A History of Poland” by a man named Norman Davies.

In the chapter, Davies introduced readers to an important piece of Polish history: Solidarnosc, also known as Solidarity. It was the first independent trade union in any territory controlled by the Soviet Union, and it eventually led to the fall of communism in Poland. When I first read the chapter, I was intrigued by the movement’s effectiveness, but I did not realize until recently how Solidarity could be a critical reference for reform across the world.

You may wonder: What exactly did Solidarity look like? Why does it matter now?? How, exactly, does this relate back to Church reform???

Fear not, all shall soon be revealed.

First, a brief Polish history lesson.

Poland has existed since 966, but it was not until 1918, when World War I ended, that Poland was established as an independent state. Its political atmosphere was volatile, and the country experienced frequent transfers of leadership until it eventually settled on martial rule. The state signed a non-aggression agreement with Hitler’s Germany in 1934, but … plot twist … Germany invaded Poland in 1939, kicking off World War II. Following the war, the country came under Communist rule in 1946, which it stayed under until 1989.

To frame this history in the context of the Church, it is important to note that Karol Wojtyla, Krakow’s Cardinal, was elected to become Pope John Paul II in 1978. The Pope returned to Poland in 1979, the year before Solidarity’s formation, and delivered the message, “Don’t be afraid; the fate of Poland depends on you,” which many see as instruction for the people to take direct action against Communism.

If you’ve studied European history at all, you’re probably aware that escaping Communism is an arduous process. For Poland, this was certainly the case. Strikes and protests consistently took place throughout the early period of Polish communist rule, but they came to a head in 1980. A rise in food prices brought the city of Gdańsk to the center of the conflict, as almost 17,000 shipyard workers there went on strike in their plant. Within the city, people banded to form an interfactory strike committee, and soon workers from various industries were striking across the country.

Solidarity was formed by representatives from

36 of the country’s trade unions and its membership reached 10 million by 1981. The movement advocated for free elections and trade union bargaining power as well as economic reform. As Solidarity’s following grew, the Soviet and Polish leaders were determined to quell it.

Martial law was adopted once again in December 1981, and Solidarity was declared illegal. It was officially disbanded in October of 1982, but its members were not discouraged, and they kept Solidarity alive underground.

During this time, JPII continued to preach and Solidarity continued to simmer. In 1987, the Pope spoke in Poland, encouraging people to embody solidarity as a principle, explaining that it allows people to coexist despite differences. A New York Times article released the day of his visit said, “He has not … called for a resumption of public activities by Solidarity. … While he left no doubt he was speaking about the banned movement … remarks dwelled primarily on the ideals embodied by Solidarity rather than its specific activities.”

As time would tell, Solidarity re-emerged the next year. After a new wave of strikes, the movement was finally legalized and permitted to endorse a candidate in the 1989 election. By the end of 1989, Poland’s first noncommunist premier since the late 1940s was elected.

JPII’s role in the fall of Polish Communism is a fascinating example of wide-scale reform. During the same 1987 visit, he called Solidarity “a model for all human rights struggles.” He recognized the need for people to band together and fight collectively against the throes of unjust leadership because the collective power of the common people is much stronger than the power of a few leaders.

A sexual abuse crisis is always an abuse of human rights, so I would argue that JPII would recommend Solidarity as a model for fighting against the modern Church abuse crisis. And I understand why. As I sat through panels last month, I frustratingly heard it repeated that everyone knows what Church reform should look like. We need more lay people involved. We need more women involved.

And, for heaven’s sake, bishops need to be held accountable (!!!).

But, as I heard Juan Carlos Cruz express in a panel, many bishops feel no incentive for accountability.

“The stroke of a pen, it passes a law and this will end — that’s what I thought,” he said. “I went to the Vatican. I saw what happens, and trust me: no pen, no nothing can switch or change this attitude.”

If Church leaders will not reform themselves, laypeople must step into action. Following the model of Solidarity, Church members should put aside differences of belief and life experience and work together to take direct action.

But what could that look like? Maybe it’s not plausible to protest at the Vatican (it might be necessary someday), but it is possible to begin conversations within parishes and dioceses, to openly discuss issues with the Church hierarchy and to call local bishops to transparency. Silence is the most dangerous choice anyone could make in this moment.

It might be scary to take on such a powerful institution as the Church and to risk one’s security in a faith community. But, in the words of John Paul II, “Do not be afraid. The fate of [the Church] depends on you.”

Ashton Weber is a sophomore with lots of opinions. She is majoring in economics and film, television and theatre with a journalism, ethics and democracy minor. Making new friends is one of her favorite things, so feel free to contact her at aweber22@nd.edu or @awebz01 on Twitter.

The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Politics of the gutter Oliver Ortega News con Fuego

There’s something off about U.S. politics today. A smelly je ne sais quoi floating around in the air. You take a whiff. Then another. But you can’t quite put your finger on what stinks.

Maybe the problem is that the stench is coming from many directions. One, we can say, is impeachment. Did President Trump withhold nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to get them to investigate Joe Biden’s son?

Seems like it, given last week’s explosive testimony from a top U.S. diplomat.

Was Hunter Biden seeking to cash in on his status as a member of a prominent political family? Probably. But that wouldn’t make the Bidens much different from other politicos, like the Trumps, the Clintons and the much lionized Barack Obama, who, we should remember, beelined from the Oval Office to a cushy $400,000 speaking fee at a Wall Street brokerage firm.

Most importantly, is impeachment the right way to dethrone Trump? Hard to tell. The fact is Democrats wouldn’t be able to do the deed in the Senate given their numbers.

And national polls show a public that barely supports impeachment and removal — about 48% in favor compared to 44% against, according to an average of surveys calculated

by CNN. In Wisconsin and five other swing states, a majority — about 53% to 43% — are against impeachment and removal. Democrats, take note.

There’s also the hardcore fanaticism of parts of the Trump base to consider. Not even the World Series was safe from the stench of impeachment, as a longtime umpire by the name of Rob Drake made headlines after publishing a Twitter creed in which he vowed to get an AR-15 and wage civil war if Trump was impeached. The MLB is investigating the incident, and Drake has since apologized, but you can bet

there’s more where that came from.

Another stink-up: the Democratic primaries. Despite the tell-tale signs that Trump would wipe the floor with Joe Biden in a general election, much of the mainstream media and the Democratic establishment continue to cheerlead for him. Thankfully, Joe has lost some steam as voters figure out that he has nothing to offer beyond a middle-of-the-road politicking that doesn’t jive in the Trump era.

It also doesn’t help that the Biden name is being linked to the financial shenanigans at the center of the impeachment probe. As if progressive voters didn’t have enough to dislike about him besides his support for defacto school segregation in the 1970s, his push for draconian crime policies in the 1990s and the money from corporate donors that have lined his pockets throughout his political career. And let’s not forget those creepy images of him too close for comfort with women and girls.

Last week, though, the Biden campaign added the cherry on top. They reversed an earlier pledge to spur money from super PACs, opening the floodgates for elite and corporate donors to pour unlimited amounts of cash into Biden 2020.

They can even hide the true origin of their donation if they so wish, a phenomenon that journalist Jane Mayer calls “dark money.” Same old, same old from Joe. Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get some Febreze up in here.

Until recently, I was fully pulling for Elizabeth Warren over Bernie Sanders. In part because I think Bernie’s heart attack scare would be an Achilles heel in a Trump-Sanders matchup. In part because Warren is a woman, and I could see her drumming up more female votes — it would also be nice to shake things up in the Oval Office, gender-wise.

In part because she’s an avowed capitalist who our billionaire overlords might be more open to working with. That is to say, she could get things done for working-class people and the overall economy without shaking the boat too much

and scaring the rich folks into giving us another Trump.

Or something worse. She’s also hella smart. Did I mention my dream ticket would be Warren and Alexandria OcasioCortez? The campaign theme song: Cardi B’s “She Bad.” I admit, seeing Bernie, AOC and 26,000 Sanders supporters light up Queens, New York, in the largest campaign rally of the primary season so far pulled at my heartstrings. But if you were to ask me right now, I’d still tell you I’m on that Warren train. Not by much, though.

At the end of the day, we can hope and pine all we want. Trump is a wild card. So is the Democratic National Committee, the body in charge of overseeing the primary election process. The DNC could very well circumvent the will of the voters and put forth some crap candidate, setting us on the path of another four years in Trumplandia, sort of like they did in 2016. Or Bloomberg could come in as a third party candidate like he’s been threatening to do for years, and who knows what will happen then? It could spell the end of jumbo drinks at 7-Eleven.

What we can say for sure is that corruption in U.S. politics runs deep, but things are extra nasty now. When have you ever had a U.S. president call an opponent a kiss-ass in front of thousands of raucous supporters? When have you had a president accused of sexually assaulting over two dozen women? The old playbook is out the window. It’s all a waiting game now. A scary-as-hell waiting game.

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Oliver Ortega is a Ph.D. student specializing in Latinx literature and politics. Originally from Queens, New York, he has called the Midwest home for almost a decade. Through boundless cynicism he keeps trying.

Reach him at oortega1@nd.edu or @ByOliverOrtega on Twitter.

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Letter to the editor

Indigenous response to ‘Cultural Colonialism’ I would like the author of “Cultural Colonialism” to clarify some of her statements made in her column in The Observer. While I understand the overall sentiment of not demonizing Trump supporters, I find the comparison to the brutal subjugation and genocide of Indigenous people since Columbus stumbled upon the “New” World to be ignorant at best. A response to a base that actively works to disenfranchise minorities is not even remotely in the same world as literal genocides. I wish the author would have spoken to these people they write about, as she’ll find that many people who oppose Columbus Day are both Indigenous and quite educated on Columbus’ legacy. I have to ask, are Indigenous people the ones who are political colonizers?

Because the debate surrounding Columbus Day should have Indigenous people at the center — this conclusion is the only one reasonable to me. Otherwise, the author simply decided to leave Indigenous people out of the conversation.

I’m not sure which is worse: calling Indigenous people colonizers or leaving us out of the conversation entirely.

Before I start analyzing some of the column, here is some advice: Do not use the word “Indian” when describing the Indigenous people that Columbus encounterwed. They were not Indians; that label was forced upon them by a man who could not accept that he was wrong. They were distinct nations, and to call them all Indians would be as foolish as labeling German, French and Spanish people Australian.

A few excerpts stuck out to me while reading the column.

The first being, “Before denying the allegation, ask yourself honestly who the most overtly reviled group in America is.

Certainly a number of minorities pop into one’s head as possible answers, but none of them in popular culture would be described, without backlash and rebuke, as backwards, provincial, even savagely simple-minded.” The author clearly evokes the image of the “simple savage,” something colonial powers used to justify their theft of the land all around the world. But I have to ask again, how is the response to

Trump’s base, who literally have the backing of the United States government, the same to a colonial power’s propaganda against a people they seek to murder and subjugate? I would argue that what you are describing is simply holding Trump voters accountable for their words and actions. That is in no way “Cultural Colonialism” and is not in the same stratosphere as actual colonialism.

The second excerpt reads, “Every year there are more offenses added to the list of prohibited words, more atrocities we label the modern white man responsible for, more guilt we demand they feel about who they are, how they think and the way they live.” These “new” naughty words or increased calls for accountability are simply marginalized groups wanting to be respected as human beings. I guarantee they have always had problems with those words or phrases — you’re just finally hearing about it. If the idea of not being able to celebrate a genocide is an offense to white people, maybe white people should examine what they are desperate to protect. Finding new atrocities committed is just history revealing itself. As we learn more about how colonial powers gained and maintained their power, you’re going to find out that it was filled with horrific atrocities. The history of these atrocities has always existed in the victim’s communities; again, it’s only recently they have been considered legitimate. These accounts aren’t new inventions by liberals to create white guilt. I would say anyone against learning more about how global powers were built fears the possibility of finding he or she doesn’t deserve such privilege.

Finally, the author makes a point I’ve literally only heard to justify genocide of Indigenous people. This point is that “people are all too willing to ignore the brutal cruelties and murderous habits of certain Indian tribes, opting instead to whitewash them in order to unilaterally sanctify them.” I’ve never understood why mentioning that Indigenous tribes warred with one another is a counterargument to those

same Indigenous people asking for respect and justice. Yes, tribal nations went to war with each other. So? Does that in any way excuse Columbus’ favorite practice of cutting off hands or siccing dogs on Indigenous people? Or the United States’ genocide of Natives? How does mentioning previous wars between nations provide any counterargument to anti-Columbus advocates in any way? If you actually spoke to Indigenous people, you would find we are well aware of our pasts. As a Lakota person, I take great pride that my ancestors were great warriors. I am proud that my relatives killed George Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Greasy Grass. I’m quite proud of my Oglala relatives for winning the Grattan Fight. Liberals may whitewash it, but what they do shouldn’t matter when it comes to the debate about Columbus. Being warriors does not justify genocide.

These are just a few examples of where the author misstepped. When I read through the article, I found there were a few things in every paragraph. But, due to the limited space, I won’t get into them here. I do agree on one point made in the piece, which is that Columbus’ historical role is “a poorly informed yet often debated topic around this time of year.” I believe that is truly reflected in this article.

BridgeND is meant to be a club that works to “bridge the partisan divide.” I do not think this can be truly accomplished unless both sides are presented accurately. In “Cultural Colonialism,” I felt in the author’s effort to present Trump voters more fairly presents an inaccurate picture of both the Indigenous and left-wing (I would also argue humane) argument against Columbus Day. In the future, I hope the author takes more time to analyze the dynamics of the Columbus Day debate before tying it into a much larger debate.

Mikey Boyd (Sicangu Oyate) junior Oct. 16

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Crossword | Will Shortz

Horoscope | Eugenia Last Happy Birthday: Change is part of life, and with each passing day, the importance of adapting to what’s going on around you will become more apparent. The small adjustments you make will be the turning point needed to help you reach a place that brings you satisfaction and joy. Stay focused and work hard to find your true calling. Your numbers are 4, 12, 20, 28, 34, 43, 47.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Finish what you start, and keep moving toward your long-term goal. Refuse to let what others decide sway your opinion or stop you from reaching your objective. An open mind doesn’t mean you have to be a follower.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A changeable attitude will help you adjust and excel. If you are open to working with the inevitable, you will find a path that leads to greater success. A partnership should add balance to your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Don’t look back or try to undo the impossible.

Opportunity stands in front of you, not behind. Concentrate on what matters and how best to use your skills to get ahead. Learn from experience.

CANCER ( June 21-July 22): Take the initiative to sort through any unfinished business you have with someone. You have plenty to gain if you engage in something creative or geared toward partnerships that are fresh, invigorating and help you keep the momentum flowing.

LEO ( July 23-Aug. 22): Keep moving forward. You will alleviate stress and anxiety if you engage in activities that will help you achieve something you feel passionate about doing. You can make a difference to your life and the lives of others if you are diligent in your pursuit.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Interaction will be your best source for information, imagination and innovation. Start conversations, and take part in events that will open your mind to new challenges and encourage you to meet interesting people. Romance is on the rise.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Make a point to do something to lower stress. A good workout, taking care of unfinished business or spending time with someone who makes you feel calm will suffice. Once you feel at ease, everything will fall into place.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Refuse to let anxiety take over when you should be pouring your energy into something concrete. Use your creativity to come up with a plan that will encourage positive change and a healthy attitude.

Personal improvement is favored.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ideas will flow freely, but that doesn’t mean they are right. Remain cautious; start only what you know you can finish. It’s best to appear proficient, not incompetent. A youngster or senior will offer beneficial insight. Don’t take a risk.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The tide’s turning, and the time to put a change in place is now. Mix business with pleasure, and it will help stir the pot and speed things up. A personal change will help you look and feel your best. Romance is featured.

AQUARIUS ( Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Listen carefully. It will be easy to misunderstand someone who is trying to manipulate you. Emotions should be put aside when dealing with sensitive issues. Look out for your interests, not what will benefit someone else. Avoid risks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Involvement will be your ticket to new beginnings. Initiate proposals, contracts and financial issues. An inside scoop will help you make a wise decision during this productive time of your life. A change to the way you handle money, health and legal matters will be beneficial.

Birthday Baby: You are sensitive, innovative and disciplined. You are compassionate and curious.

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Don’t give up on the Nationals Tom Naatz Notre Dame News Editor

On May 24, my family sat in stone cold silence as the Washington Nationals hit their 19-31 nadir. We’ve been fans since the team arrived in 2005, and never had we seen a season with such high expectations crash and burn so quickly.

Eventually, my mom — an eternal optimist — broke the silence: “I still think they’ll make the playoffs,” she said.

“Are you crazy? They’re terrible!” my dad responded. “You know what? If they make the playoffs, I will buy you a Delta Seat for a playoff game,” a reference to the cushy, impossiblefor-plebes-to-obtain seats located immediately behind home plate at Nationals Park.

“There’s no way!”

Five months later, the Nationals have just played their final home game of the 2019 postseason — Game 5 of the World Series. My mom never sat in her Delta Seat (Nice work, Dad!) and the Nationals’ season once again sits on the brink.

After storming out to a 2-0 lead in the World Series against the Houston Astros, the Nats dropped three straight at home.

Not only did they lose, but they looked like pumpkins in the process, only scoring three runs in three games. The D.C. baseball fans who had waited 86 years for a World Series game and packed Nationals Park to the rafters never even had a lead to cheer. Now, a sense of inevitability pervades the series. The pesky Nationals have had their fun, but it’s time for the unstoppable Astros to smack them out of the way once and for all. Or so the narrative goes.

Not so fast.

Before this season, the conventional wisdom on the Nats is that they weren’t a big-time club. They’d cruise through the regular season before pulling a disappearing act in the playoffs. Ahead of the 2014 National League Division Series which his team won running away, pitcher Tim Hudson of the San Francisco Giants famously declared that the Nationals just didn’t have the guts, to put it politely.

He was right.

This year was the polar opposite. No one gave them any chance after that horrendous start. After scratching and clawing their way into the Wild Card game, they bested the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on the strength of a three run eighth inning rally. The reward? A date with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the National League’s Goliath.

D.C.’s Davids slayed “mighty” LA on the back of two elimination game victories, including a win in a decisive Game 5 which they trailed as late as the eighth inning. Simply put, the 2019 Nationals are a team that will not die.

Which begs the question: Why give up on them now?

This Nationals squad plays its best baseball with its back against the wall. After being counted out all year, I think they’re perfectly comfortable — if not thrilled — with the spot they’re in right now. Previous iterations of the team might have folded under the pressure.

Not this bunch.

Furthermore, the pitching matchups from here on favor the Nats. Stephen Strasburg is scheduled to start Tuesday’s Game 6 opposite of Justin Verlander. Verlander has never won a start in the World Series and has looked shaky throughout October. Strasburg, on the other hand, has been practically unbeatable. If he wins Tuesday, he’ll have achieved the rare feat of a 5-0 October.

The Nationals have to be feeling confident behind their best pitcher.

If the series reaches a Game 7, Max Scherzer — who was scratched from Game 5 due to neck tightness — would likely start for the Nationals. Scherzer is a battleship. A master competitor, the only thing you have to worry about with him is that he’s too intense. That’s a good problem to have in a winnertake-all elimination game.

Who would start Game 7 for the Astros? Having pitched Game 5, Houston superstar Gerrit Cole is off the table (except for a possible appearance out of the bullpen). That leaves Zach Greinke, or perhaps Astros manager AJ Hinch would opt for a bullpen game. Either way, neither choice is ideal for the Astros. Greinke is easily the team’s weakest starter, and their bullpen is vulnerable. If they can hold on in Game 6, there’s no reason to think the cardiac Nats couldn’t eke out a Game 7 victory.

Of course, they very well might come up short. The Astros are a great team, and the Nationals have some fatal flaws (most notably their bullpen, one of the worst ever for a playoff team). But after all that they’ve been through, they’re more than capable of winning the World Series. They just have to remember how they got there in the first place.

Contact Tom Naatz at tnaatz@nd.edu The views expressed in this Sports Authority are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.

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Ian Book’s performance in recent weeks, but Kelly has no doubts about his starting quarterback, emphasizing that it was a team loss.

“Any time the quarterback doesn’t play up to a standard that he has, that others have for him, he’s going to be in the spotlight. It comes w ith the position. You know, I don’t know that anybody really played well or coached well on Saturday, including me,” Kelly said. “Is it fair? Sure.

I think it is fair criticism of ever ybody, including me. I think we all have to coach better; I think we all have to play better.”

The Irish w ill put that loss in the rear v iew, Kelly said, and focus on getting a w in against the Hokies to avoid back to back losses for the first time since 2016.

W hen asked about what has changed since then, Kelly focused on culture.

“There are a lot of changes we have made w ithin the program. With our identit y, our standards w ithin the

program to make certain.

Obv iously, we were dealing w ith an interim defensive coordinator, there were a lot of different things,” he said.

“As I mentioned earlier at the outset, this is about our football team getting back to their identit y and the standards that have gotten them to this point. We got away from it. It is time to get back to it.”

The starting offense had a difficult time mov ing against Michigan, partially driven by the departure of junior w ide receiver Michael Young into the transfer portal. Kelly emphasized that sophomore receiver Law rence Keys and senior receiver Javon McKinley w ill need to step into bigger roles to pick up the slack.

“They all have to be involved. I thought it would be nice to catch a couple of balls here and there,” Kelly said. “We got Law rence in the game, might have been a little bit of a low throw, but we would like to see him make that catch. We have to keep getting him in competitive situations. We know what Javon can do — obv iously he’s really good

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on the outside. I just think that they all have to be in the rotation in some fashion so we’ll continue to get them involved as we move for ward. They’re younger players, but for Javon, he’s young in experience, but older in terms of being in the program. They all have to be involved, and we have to keep working them in there.”

With the College Football Playoff w indow shut and Notre Dame football skeptics out in full force in the media, the team w ill need to remain focused in coming weeks. Kelly believes his squad knows how to remain focused on w inning.

“They’re used to it. I mean, they know they have to avoid the noise. They won’t be defined by one game. They’ve got a great opportunit y in the month of November,” Kelly said.

“They can be remembered by w inning the month of November. They w in the month of November; the noise w ill change. A ll w ill be happy.”

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rejuvenated, controlling possession and playing with a good pace. Notre Dame had its best chance of the second half when sophomore midfielder Tyler Shea got by the defense and only had the goalkeeper to beat, but Verdi was able to punch the ball away. Then, in the 67th minute, senior Senan Farrelly put a header on target coming off of a corner kick, but again, Verdi was able to save it.

Then, only one minute later, graduate student forward Ian Ascheris had a chance from close range, but he misplaced the shot.

Notre Dame lost its edge in the final 10 minutes. With the match still scoreless, Michigan almost scored on a header in the 86th minute, but the shot was just wide of the net. Then, in the 89th minute, they had another clean look, but the shot ricocheted off of the woodwork. With less than two minutes left in the match, Wolverines senior forward Jack Hallahan cut inside the box, and the referee ruled he had been tripped by an Irish defender, awarding Michigan a penalty kick.

The decision was upheld after a long discussion between the two officials. Graduate student forward Nebojsa Popovic fired the penalty past Turnbull to give Michigan the 1-0 win.

Notre Dame was almost able to level the score with under 30 seconds to play when graduate student defender Felcian Dumas sent a cross into the box for Coleman. Coleman put it towards the goal, but the ball appeared to def lect off Michigan junior defender Austin Swiech’s arm. The referee ignored the Notre Dame bench’s plea for a handball and their own chance at a penalty kick.

Irish sophomore defender Phillip Queintin was given a red card for dissent.

Then, the Irish travelled to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for what promised to be a tough contest against No. 2-ranked Wake Forest on Saturday.

The Irish started strong with the first scoring chance of the night in the 17th minute when sophomore forward Jack Lynn hit a low header towards the near post off of a cross from Ascheris, but the shot was just wide.

Then, in the 21st minute, Coleman dribbled to the edge of the box and fired a shot into the side netting beyond the goalkeeper’s reach to give the Irish an early advantage. Their defense held firm for the rest of the half, and they went into the break leading 1-0.

The Irish defense was all over the field in the second half. Wake Forest (12-3-1, 5-2

ACC) outshot Notre Dame 174, and Turnbull made 5 saves, including a full-extension effort in the 56th minute to deny Wake Forest of a sure goal. Wake also controlled possession for 62% of the match, but Notre Dame consistently rallied behind the ball and defended crosses well. They had very little sustained pressure in the second half, but the defense was able to secure the win. The victory over Wake Forest is the highest ranked win for the Irish since upsetting the then-No. 1 Demon Deacons in the 2015 ACC Championship semifinals.

This was a critical win for Notre Dame, as a road win against the No. 2 team will likely mean a lot to the NCAA Men’s Soccer Committee when deciding who makes the tournament. The Irish play their final regular season game Friday at 7 p.m. against Pittsburgh for Senior Night.

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Irish junior midfielder Aiden McFadden jumps above his teammates to head the ball towards the goal during Notre Dame’s 1-0 victory over the University of Denver at Alumni Stadium on Sept. 8.

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prove to be a challenge due to its 33 assists — the thirdbest mark in the ACC — and Notre Dame would have to neutralize the scoring abilities of sophomore forward Marykate McGuire and senior midfielder Ella Stevens, who had scored eight and seven goals coming into the game, respectively.

After a back-and-forth affair, Duke recorded the first goal as Stevens converted on a cross from sophomore defender Delany Graham in the 39th minute. The Irish responded in the second half as they increased their intensity.

In the 86th minute, sophomore forward Oliva Wingate rewarded Notre Dame’s aggressiveness with an equalizing goal off of an assist by freshman midfielder Erin Hohnstein.

Both teams had many opportunities to convert off of free kicks in two overtime periods, but the match ended in a 1-1 draw. The Irish held a 5-3 advantage in shots on target.

The match marked Duke’s eighth overtime contest of the season and seventh draw, tying their school record.

Notre Dame then traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, to challenge NC State and looked to sustain its high level of play. The Wolfpack (8-5-4, 3-2-4 ACC) were coming off of a 3-2 overtime victory over Syracuse and would try to collect a third conference win. The greatest impediment to an Irish victory would be Wolfpack senior midfielder Tziarra King, who leads all ACC players with 14 goals and 36 shots on target.

NC State senior midfielder Ricci Walkling would also prove to be a challenge as she had recorded eight assists prior to the contest.

In the early minutes of the match, NC State took the advantage as King controlled the ball after it bounced off of the top of the goal and found Walkling who recorded the first point of the game.

About a minute later, redshirt sophomore defender Lulu Guttenberger sent a long ball to freshman forward Jameese Joseph who extended the Wolfpack lead to 2-0. Notre Dame spent the remainder of the match trying to lessen the deficit, but NC State junior goalkeeper Jessica Berlin played a strong game, recording a career best with seven saves. The Irish held an 8-7 advantage in shots on goal; however, they just could not find the back of the net. King finished off Notre Dame in the seventh minute with a goal of her own and sent the Irish back to South Bend on a four-match winless streak.

The Irish will face Wake Forrest in a Senior Day matchup Thursday at 7 p.m.

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The Notre Dame volleyball team came out of the weekend 1-1 after dropping a game 3-0 to No. 2 Pittsburgh Friday night and bouncing back w ith a 3-0 w in over Virginia on Sunday.

The Irish (15-5, 8-2 ACC) are heading into November in good position to make the postseason w ith several challenging but résumébuilding road games left on tap.

On Friday, the Irish took on the highly-touted Panthers (21-1, 10-0) who’s lone loss on the season came against No. 7 Penn State in five sets. Heading into the matchup w ith Notre Dame, Pittsburgh had dropped just one set in their past eight matches. That streak continued Friday, although the Irish battled hard throughout the contest.

Notre Dame’s young squad looked far from intimidated in the premier matchup as they rode an early surge to a 13-7 advantage. Freshman outside hitter Caroline Meuth and sophomore right-side hitter Sydney Bent each racked up a trio of kills in the early spurt. Pitt would burn t wo timeouts tr y ing to recover, but eventually, dow n 16-9, ripped off an 8-1 run to even the score at 17-17.

From there, the Panthers played like the No. 2 team

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players and this team. The best thing about it though is they’re just not content w ith where we are right now, they want more,” Handrigan said. “I’m forcing them to take a little bit of a break now just because we’ve gone prett y hard for the last 10 months, throughout the summer and into this fall … letting them take a little bit of time off, and then a week after next, we’re going to get back to the grind and work towards more of our goals.”

Handrigan went on to talk about breakout freshman star Palmer Jackson.

“Palmer is a freshman who’s come in strong and been one of our top players this fall. He’s worked hard. He’s extremely competitive and wants to w in at ever y thing that he does,” Handrigan said. “He’s been working ver y hard this semester to tr y to get that

in the countr y, w ith a series of impressive digs and powerful kills wearing the Irish dow n. Overall, Pitt ended on a 16-3 run to claim the first set 25-19.

The second set was a tight battle, w ith both teams producing small spurts of dominance, but never enough to pull away. After Pitt jumped to a 9-5 advantage, Meuth blasted three more kills to help rally the Irish all the way back to a 14-13 lead.

The tussle continued as the t wo squads traded points, eventually arriving at an 18-18 deadlock.

Unfortunately for the Irish, the close game again seemed to energize the Panthers, who broke off a deadly 5-0 run that put the hosts on the brink. Notre Dame would rally to w ithin 23-21 before dropping t wo straight points and falling into an 0-2 hole.

The Irish again kept the third set close, but ultimately one last Pitt burst ser ved as the proverbial dagger, sending the Irish to their second conference defeat in three games.

After an early tug-of-war battle saw the Irish emerge w ith a 15-14 advantage, spurred by three kills from Bent, the Panthers would earn seven of the next eight points to take the lead for good.

Again, the Irish threatened the Panthers w ith a

late rally, closing the margin to 23-22, but Pitt did just enough to escape w ith a 25-23 v ictor y and the sweep.

Bent had 12 kills, and Meuth had 16, while sophomore setter Zoe Nunez totaled 26 assists and 19 digs, and junior libero Madison Cruzado added 11 digs in an impressive yet fruitless performance for the Irish.

After a tough matchup against the Panthers, the Irish got an easier task on Sunday, hosting the Virginia Cavaliers (9-14, 1-9 ACC).

The Cavaliers entered the match 1-8 in conference play and 0-7 in true road games. After a test in the first set, the Irish largely dominated en route to a 3-0 sweep (25-21, 25-18, 25-10).

The Cavaliers played a scrappy first set, not giv ing the Irish any easy points, as Notre Dame, possibly suffering from the aftereffects of a tough loss on Friday, could not seize control and ultimately found themselves locked in a 21-21 tie.

However, sophomore middle blocker Lauren Wenzel sparked the Irish w ith a booming kill, and classmate and outside hitter Charley Niego duplicated the feat for a 23-21 advantage.

Virginia called timeout but to no avail as Bent ended the set w ith consecutive kills.

It was the only set the Irish were seriously challenged in. Despite being tied 18-18 in the second set, the Irish led v irtually the whole way.

Virginia refused to go quietly, but the Irish finally put them away as Wenzel came up w ith a block and then a Virginia attack error spurred the Irish onto a setending 7-0 run.

Up 2-0 in the match, the Irish saved their best for last, as they over whelmed the overmatched Cavaliers in the third set. Ser v ing to start the set, Wenzel produced an ace and then another kill as the Irish took the first five points and ten of the first eleven.

Virginia got as close at 10-6 before the Irish claimed seven of the next eight points and a 17-7 lead.

The Cavaliers truly could not do any thing against Notre Dame’s smothering defense and aggressive offense as they left Purcell Pav ilion meek ly, putting up just 10 points in the final set.

Niego ended the match w ith an authoritative kill to end the t wo-game homestand on a high note.

Notre Dame is currently tied for second in the ACC and embarks on a four-game road trip, starting w ith a tilt against Sy racuse in New York on Friday at 7 p.m.

w in. He’s helped us get a lot of team w ins, but I’ve always told him, ‘If you focus and get that indiv idual w in, not only is it going to be an indiv idual w in for you but it is going to help our program greatly and our team.’

He’s done that. He’s played extremely well in all five events this fall, and it was nice to see him get the w in at Quail Valley.”

As for Jackson, a Murraysv ille, Pennsylvania native, it is safe to say he has found his place at Notre Dame. Jackson spoke w ith The Obser ver on Sept. 24 in regards to the team dy namic during the beginning of the season.

“We’re all [a] prett y cohesive group to be honest.

We practice together, we do things together but yeah the seniors have been great to Patrick [Kelly] and I, the other freshman. Even the sophomores and juniors have just been welcoming and they’ve helped the transition from home to here just be a lot easier than

it is,” he said. “We’ve developed routines as a team, from the t wo tournaments we’ve won that have, I don’t know, just helped us. We can finally wear a different outfit because we wore the one outfit the first tournament, and we won so we had to wear the same thing the next tournament and we won again, so we were wearing the same thing this week [at the Inverness Intercollegiate]. We came in third, so I guess we’re safe to change that, but yeah, the guys are great, and they’re really helpful, and it should be an awesome year w ith a deep run in the postseason.”

Jackson also prov ided his goals for the season.

“I wanted to w in a college tournament this year and if it works out it works out.”

It seems to have worked out, and Jackson has far exceeded his goal leading the Irish to a record-breaking season.

Finally Handrigan gave some insight as to how he

keeps his team prepared for competition in the cold South Bend w inters.

“It’s golf, and we’re always tr y ing to improve. We keep some prett y strict and structured staffs of ways to improve,” he said. “We’ll have indiv idual meetings w ith all of our players over the next week, go over the things that we can get better at. You know we’re top 10 in the countr y I think we’re seventh or eighth, wherever we are, but obv iously there’s still room for improvement there to tr y to get that number one spot.

So we’re going to continue to focus on what we’ve done all semester which is to tr y to w in ever y thing we play in, and that’s what we’ll tr y to do in the spring.”

The Irish have concluded their fall slate and w ill return to action in Februar y at the TPC Dorado Beach Collegiate in Puerto Rico.

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By HAYDEN ADAMS Associate Sports Editor

After then-No. 8 Notre Dame’s 45-14 defeat at the hands of Michigan on Saturday, Irish head coach Brian Kelly addressed the media in his week ly press conference. Kelly emphasized the team’s need to get back to work to not let one loss define the season.

“I’ll start off w ith certainly the best thing for our team is to get back on the practice field and begin getting ready for Virginia Tech. It’s certainly best for our team to focus on what’s gotten us the success over the past three years and building back our identit y as a football team, and that is focusing on our process and the standards that we have set and the program,” Kelly said. “We got away from that this past weekend, and we’ll work diligently in putting those things back in

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the forefront and ex hibiting that this Saturday against a ver y good Virginia Tech team that’s play ing ver y, ver y well. Certainly on pace to find themselves at the top of the league.”

Kelly pointed out reasons the Irish were beaten so handily in Ann Arbor and ways they w ill need to be better against the Hokies.

“We have to be better. It was all around. I mean, there were new lines of scrimmage on both sides of the ball.

Look, the basic tenants of this game haven’t changed,” Kelly said. “You control a line of scrimmage, you really have a great chance of w inning football games.

Michigan controlled the line of scrimmage on both sides.”

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Irish graduate student defender Autumn Smithers preps to strike the ball up field during Notre Dame’s 2-3 loss to Iowa on Sept. 15.

Over fall break, Notre Dame women’s soccer embarked upon a three-match stand away from home against ACC opponents. After beginning the campaign with a 3-0 loss to No. 1 Virginia, the Irish (96-2, 3-4-2) looked to improve against No. 9 Duke, who had not been defeated since August.

The Blue Devils (8-1-7, 3-0-6 ACC) were coming off a grueling 1-1 double overtime draw against No. 14 Louisville. The Irish would have had to elevate their level of play to earn a favorable result against such a complete squad. Duke is regarded as having one of the best defenses in the nation and has only allowed 0.69 goals per game. The Blue Devils are headlined by their strength in goal, ranking fifth in the ACC with 64 total saves.

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Irish close recordTeam splits key 2-game set: Michigan, Wake Forest breaking fall slate Observer Sports Staff

Notre Dame men’s soccer split two games over fall break. The Irish (8-6-1, 2-5 ACC) hosted Michigan at Alumni Stadium on Tuesday.

The game started strong for the Wolverines (7-4-4, 2-1-3 Big Ten) as they dominated possession right after kickoff. They had an early chance when junior midfielder Carlos Tellez def lected a header towards the goal, but Irish senior goalkeeper Duncan Turnbull turned him away with a one-handed save. Neither team had many chances for the rest of the half until right before the break. Irish sophomore midfielder Patrick Coleman fired a shot towards the far post right before halftime, but Michigan senior goalkeeper Andrew Verdi denied him with a strong save.

The Irish came out of the locker room looking see M SOCCER PAGE 10

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Irish graduate student forward Ian Aschieris dribbles around a defender during the 2-4 home loss against Clemson on Sept. 13.

The No. 7 ranked Irish men’s golf team finished its fall season by making program histor y. The Irish notched four tournament w ins in the five they competed in, beating the prev ious record set by the 1999-00 team who won three tournaments in its season. The Irish can still add to this total w ith their spring season right around the corner, slated to begin w ith a tournament in Puerto Rico at the TPC Dorado Beach Collegiate in late Februar y.

At Quail Valley last weekend, freshman Palmer Jackson was able to step up and put the Irish into the record books when the team found itself tied w ith South Florida going into the final hole of the 54-hole tournament. Jackson was able to sink a clutch birdie putt over USF sophomore A lbin Bergstrom to give the Irish

the one stroke w in, 43 under par to USF’s 42. Jackson finished taking just 200 strokes w ith a score of 16 under par, breaking the tournament record and also setting a new program 54-hole best. The -43 team score smashed the program’s prev ious 54-hole record set at Quail Valley t wo seasons ago by 21 strokes.

Senior classmates Hunter Ostrom and Dav is Lamb also came in w ith solid play for the Irish. Lamb finished in ninth place at 9 under par shooting a 207, while Ostrom finished 21st w ith a -7.

Irish head coach John Handrigan spoke on his team’s success throughout the season and how he is looking to keep the ball rolling heading into the offseason.

“Obv iously when you break records and w in four, which has never been done before in an entire year — never mind a semester — it brings a lot of confidence to our see MEN’S GOLF PAGE 11

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the new players were settling into their roles. This all combined to make it shocking when Michigan ran for 303 yards, gauging Notre Dame up the middle for huge gains into the secondary with apparent ease. Irish head coach Brian Kelly said he was surprised at how effectively Michigan ran the ball.

“That has not been who we are. We’ve been very stingy.

Our identity was not on display tonight. We’re a physical team, we were not physical.

We have to look at all the things that went on tonight as, ‘What kind of preparation did I put them in?’” Kelly said. “Players have to look at their performance, this is an all-in situation for players and coaches anytime you have a defeat like this.”

The Irish gave up six runs of 20 yards or more on a night where they could not manage a run longer than nine yards on offense. These chunk plays destroyed Irish

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had chances, we were not able to execute.”

When the rain slowed slightly in the second half, the Irish chose to attack the Wolverines through the air.

It led to two straight threeand-outs, with the conditions making even basic pitchand-catches hard. The Irish defense kept the Wolverines off the board as well, forcing three straight three-and-outs.

On the third Irish drive of the half, a pass interference call wiped out an interception and set up a seven-yard touchdown to a wide open junior tight end Cole Kmet.

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momentum and allowed Michigan to establish early momentum and put up 21 points in a beat-down of a fourth quarter. Irish senior safety Alohi Gilman blamed the defensive shortcomings on a few things.

“It was a combination of things. We did not execute the way we were supposed to.

We didn’t play as physical as were supposed to,” Gilman said. “We did not play up to our standard as a defense.”

Allowing 45 points is certainly not the Notre Dame standard, as the game broke a streak of 20 games straight without giving up more than 30 points. The Wolverines needed to attempt just 14 passes for them to amass 437 total yards. It was a truly difficult performance for the Irish run-stopping, and the road may not get easier.

The team will face several more run-heav y teams as the season goes on, with Boston College and their 256 rushing yards per game sticking out as a difficult late matchup. As temperatures drop and winter weather rushes

in, the importance of being able to control the ground game will only increase.

Kelly believes that they will need to examine all facets of the team including the run defense.

“We feel like this was a game where our team was not who they were. What we have to find out is why weren’t they playing at the level they have been at in the last two and a half years?

That might be more on me. It might be my preparation, it might be in our game plan,” Kelly said. “It might be as simple as our preparation wasn’t what it needed to be over the last two weeks.”

Michigan’s run game took away Notre Dame’s chance at the College Football Playoff and shocked all players and coaches in the typically solid group. It was a painful day for the Irish run defense, and they will seek to get back to their physical style of play in coming weeks.

That was the final glimpse of hope for an Irish comeback, as the Wolverines would score touchdowns on two of their next three drives, with senior quarterback Shea Patterson taking advantage of drier conditions by throwing two touchdowns. Even when the rain stopped, they punched with their run-heavy approach as the Irish continued to throw. By the time the fight was over the Wolverines held a 45-14 advantage. Kelly acknowledged that his team had been outplayed by the Wolverines.

“Michigan was the better team tonight. In all phases, they were better. We didn’t coach well enough tonight and didn’t play well enough,”

Kelly said. “That’s not our identity, but that’s what we showed tonight. We own what we showed this evening.”

Michigan tailored their game plan to the field conditions and executed beautifully. The Irish were dominated in the first half, and instead of making adjustments to their rushing game chose to abandon it, a strategy that resulted in Book completing just eight of his 25 pass attempts. As the door slams shut on returning to the College Football Playoff, the Irish will need something else to motivate them next week against Virginia Tech.

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21 7

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Michigan 3, nd 0

Jake Moody 21-yard field goal

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Michigan 7, ND 0

Zach Charbonnet 7-yard run (Jake Moody kick)

13:51

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Michigan 17, ND 0

Zach Charbonnet 1-yard run (Moody kick)

9:52

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Michigan 17, ND 7

Cole Kmet 7-yard pass from Ian Book (Jonathan Doerer kick)

5:27

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Michigan 24, ND 7

Donovan Peoples-Jones 8-yard pass from Shea Patterson (Moody kick)

2:37

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Michigan 31, ND 7

Nico Collins 16-yard pass from Patterson (Moody kick)

11:29

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Michigan 38, ND 7

Tru Wilson 27-yard run (Moody kick)

8:46

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Michigan 45, ND 7

Mike Sainristil 26-yard pass from Dylan McCaffrey (Moody kick)

4:23

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Michigan 45, ND 14

Javon McKinley 14-yard pass from Phil Jurkovec (Doerer kick)

3:45

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Irish graduate student wide receiver Chris Finke is nearly trampled by several Michigan players. Finke recorded no receptons and called for fair catches on his three kick returns during the 45-14 Irish loss.

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Irish junior linebacker Drew White, along with two other Irish defenders, attempt to bring down Michigan senior quarterback Shea Patterson during Notre Dame’s 45-14 loss to the Wolverines on Oct. 26. Due to the amount of rain during the game, Michigan turned to their run game, and the Irish run defense ceded a season-high 303 yards on the ground.

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Notre Dame’s offense got off to a slow start as it has many times this season. However, it failed to find a rhythm or capitalize on opportunities early and found itself down 17-0 going into halftime. After the Irish scored to cut the deficit to 17-7 in the third quarter, Michigan went on a 28-0 run in a span of 13 minutes to seal the game and win by a final of 45-14.

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Irish safety Jalen Elliott tackles a Michigan receiver during Notre Dame’s 45-14 loss to the Wolverines.

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Irish senior quarterback Ian Book scrambles and is brought down by a Wolverines defender during Notre Dame’s 45-14 loss to Michigan.

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Irish senior receiver Chase Claypool completes a long catch despite a defensive pass interference.

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Irish defensive linemen Ade Ogundeji, Jamir Jones, Jacob Lacey and Jayson Ademilola attempt to block a Michigan point after attempt during Notre Dame’s 45-14 loss to the Wolverines on Oct. 26 in Ann Arbor.