My daughter is a senior this year at ND. She is pretty good friends with Brady Quinn, Jeff Samardja, Victor Abiamiri, Tommy Z. and a few others.
The senior class is very tight and a great group of kids. My 20 year old niece (who is a huge ND and Brady Quinn fan passed away tragically, recently) and somebody told a couple of the guys. Brady and Victor both sent an email of condolence to my sister and her family. Brady's was read at the funeral. Neither of these kids knew my niece or any of her family. They just knew from my daughter that the family was really hurting. The maturity of these 21 year old "kids" is unbelievable. I won't divulge what they wrote but it wasn't just your typical "sorry about your loss" note.
So when anything about the draft or college football is brought up you now know why there will be such a heavy Notre Dame slant to it.