Notre Dame Remains Focused Despite this Season’s Hype

Charlie Weis, head coach for Notre Dame, was recently quoted in the Chicago Tribune saying that despite all the anticipation and hype surrounding the beginning of this season the Fighting Irish are just going to take it slow and focus on winning one game at a time, beginning with the season opener against Georgia Tech this Saturday.

Weis told the Tribune “We understand that you have to have expectations,” Weis said. “But I teach our players—and our coaches, for that matter—to be very short-sighted when it comes to expectations.”

Quarterback Brady Quinn echoed those sentiments saying “There has been a lot of hype around the season…[but] the only thing we care about right now is Georgia Tech.” Despite that, however, Quinn also said “I’d be lying if I said [a national title] wasn’t in the back of our minds.”

If you want to buy Notre Dame Tickets, it would be wise to get your hands on them as soon as possible. Last weekend, ticket prices ranged from $159 to $4,900.

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Notre Dame football tickets: What’s the hubbub at StubHub?

What’s all the hubbub about getting your hands on Notre Dame football tickets?

Okay, Notre Dame is considered the most storied program in the history of college football. And Heisman favorite Brady Quinn has returned for another year of tutelage under Coach Charlie Weis. So, will this be the year the Fighting Irish bring home a BCS title? Will Quinn bring home some hardware of his own?

You’ve got to be there to find out. But, tickets to Notre Dame football games are difficult to find and won’t be floating around ticket offices. Since there aren’t many games played each year at historic Notre Dame Stadium, Fighting Irish football tickets are always sold well in advance of the season.

So, what can you do? Buy tickets from Touchdown Jesus?

That’s why we’ve launched this Notre Dame blog to give you and other fans, buddies, couples, families, travelers and alumni the latest news and information about Fighting Irish football ticket sales.

Who are we? According to William Grimes of The New York Times, “To anyone surfing the Web, StubHub looks like a ticket brokerage. It’s not. The company, founded (in 2000) by a couple of Stanford Business School students, is a kind of stock market where the only shares traded are tickets to live events….Buyers and sellers mingle in the marketplace and, through free negotiation, arrive at a price that reflects the true value of a commodity.”

Now that we’ve disclosed our transparent biases, may we offer a suggestion? If you want to buy Notre Dame Tickets, it would be wise to get your hands on them as soon as possible. Last weekend, ticket prices ranged from $159 to $4,900. And the best tickets to the best games will go faster than you can say, “Win one for the Gipper.”

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