Sep 18, 2026 · 30 min · 14 segments
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And I don't know if the first day you stepped on campus you thought this might be a place I'd like to live long term.
Yeah, so when I went to undergrad here, I swore I'd never live here again.
But my family's a Notre Dame family, so I knew I would always be a Notre Dame person at heart for the rest of my life.
He's the one who took the job here, and then I moved a year later to be here.
But I will say that the growth of this community in the last 20 years since I graduated from Notre Dame has been tremendous.
I always try to describe campus and how Eddy Street Commons and all that stuff was not even there.
Juniper went straight through campus, and I'm trying to paint this picture to my kids, and they're looking at me like I have six heads.
Like, what are you talking about? So it's a completely different place, which is really refreshing to see that you can grow a campus that is so traditional and doesn't really want to change, but is changing and bending with the times.
I have a very strong love for Notre Dame and what it's done for me and for my family.
So it's a place that, you know, I think is a wonderful place to raise kids.
It has a lot to offer in this community because of the universities here, I think, play a large part in that.
And I'm glad that the universities are starting to embrace the community as well.
The sports teams and the activities that they're offering are really reaching out to the community, which wasn't really done very well, I think, when I went there.
And I don't know if the first day you stepped on campus you thought this might be a place I'd like to live long term.
Yeah, so when I went to undergrad here, I swore I'd never live here again.
But my family's a Notre Dame family, so I knew I would always be a Notre Dame person at heart for the rest of my life.
He's the one who took the job here, and then I moved a year later to be here.
But I will say that the growth of this community in the last 20 years since I graduated from Notre Dame has been tremendous.
I always try to describe campus and how Eddy Street Commons and all that stuff was not even there.
Juniper went straight through campus, and I'm trying to paint this picture to my kids, and they're looking at me like I have six heads.
Like, what are you talking about? So it's a completely different place, which is really refreshing to see that you can grow a campus that is so traditional and doesn't really want to change, but is changing and bending with the times.
I have a very strong love for Notre Dame and what it's done for me and for my family.
So it's a place that, you know, I think is a wonderful place to raise kids.
It has a lot to offer in this community because of the universities here, I think, play a large part in that.
And I'm glad that the universities are starting to embrace the community as well.
The sports teams and the activities that they're offering are really reaching out to the community, which wasn't really done very well, I think, when I went there.
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