@42Stauqs put this in the game thread, and we put this on our homepage. I think you'll want to read this Ross Dellenger column, which is tied to everything Marty Biagi has been going through.
NEW ORLEANS — The tears flowed. Marty Biagi couldn’t stop them. He tried, of course. At times, we all try to hold back our emotions but they usually get the best of us.
On Thursday night, as his Notre Dame Fighting Irish won a 12th straight game by beating Georgia to advance to the playoff semifinals, emotions got to Biagi.
And that’s perfectly fine and understandable considering the circumstances.
Biagi, Notre Dame’s special teams coordinator, has endured an inexplicable last 14 days. He became a father to a set of twins a day before the Irish’s first-round playoff win two weeks ago, lost his father the morning after that victory over Indiana, and then had a wife in the hospital until just two days ago.
Then came Thursday in the New Orleans Superdome, when Biagi’s unit accounted for three field goals, a touchdown and pulled off one of the biggest plays in the game — a fourth-quarter trickeration that duped the Georgia Bulldogs into a drive-extending penalty.
Full story:
sports.yahoo.com
NEW ORLEANS — The tears flowed. Marty Biagi couldn’t stop them. He tried, of course. At times, we all try to hold back our emotions but they usually get the best of us.
On Thursday night, as his Notre Dame Fighting Irish won a 12th straight game by beating Georgia to advance to the playoff semifinals, emotions got to Biagi.
And that’s perfectly fine and understandable considering the circumstances.
Biagi, Notre Dame’s special teams coordinator, has endured an inexplicable last 14 days. He became a father to a set of twins a day before the Irish’s first-round playoff win two weeks ago, lost his father the morning after that victory over Indiana, and then had a wife in the hospital until just two days ago.
Then came Thursday in the New Orleans Superdome, when Biagi’s unit accounted for three field goals, a touchdown and pulled off one of the biggest plays in the game — a fourth-quarter trickeration that duped the Georgia Bulldogs into a drive-extending penalty.
Full story:
With a trick and some tears, Notre Dame finally gets over hump in big-time bowl game
Irish special teams coach Marty Biagi has been through the ringer the past couple weeks. But his perseverance is emblematic of this Irish team — they don't quit, and they play full-tilt all 60 minutes.
sports.yahoo.com
