Corso about ND football
Corso said he expects Notre Dame to be back in the BCS mix this season, but more likely on the periphery of it than center stage. Here are some of his other projections and opinions about the state of the Irish and beyond:
-On ND quarterback Jimmy Clausen: "He was below average against good football teams the last four or five weeks of the season. But with Charlie Weis calling the offensive plays, I think you're going to see a difference."
-On ND's first-year offensive line coach Frank Verducci: "I don't know the other two new assistants, but I do know Frank Verducci is as good an offensive line coach as there is around. I hired him when he was a grad assistant at Iowa to come with me to Northern Illinois.
"He was a terrific line coach for me, then went on to other places and the pros and got even better. He'll be terrific."
-On Jon Tenuta making the defensive calls this year: "I used to say this about Jon when he was at Georgia Tech: 'I don't know what they pay him, but it ain't enough money.' I understand he'll be calling the plays, and that's a great move."
-On trying to play Notre Dame when Corso was coaching at Indiana (1973-82): "I tried to play them at Indianapolis, but they wouldn't do it. They said, 'We've already got Purdue on our schedule.' I said, 'Well, right now I'm better then Purdue.' That didn't budge them an inch. They wanted to play more of an intersectional schedule."
-On the possibility of Notre Dame moving back toward national prominence: "I think Notre Dame being good is good for college football. If you bring three guys in from Mars and you ask the Martians where they would want to see a college football game, even they know enough to say 'Notre Dame.'
"Notre Dame is college football. It's tradition. It's doing it the right way, with class. There's nothing like Notre Dame when it comes to the prestige of college football. And college football is much better off, in my opinion, when Notre Dame is in the mix."
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Corso about ND football
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