Why did Notre Dame football captain Jack Kiser decide to play a sixth season?

ATLANTA – One final box to check.

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One more game, one more box and the kid from the one flashing stoplight town of Royal Center, Indiana, can look back on his six seasons of college football and say that there’s absolutely nothing left to do. Or say. Or play.

Six seasons of a school record 70 games later, Notre Dame football captain/linebacker/all-around good dude Jack Kiser can say that he maxed out every available opportunity to be a Notre Dame football player. To be a Notre Dame student. To be a Notre Dame man.

Run through Kiser’s list of accomplishments on the Notre Dame web site and it gets dizzying. He’s done all of this. He’s done all of that. On the field. Off the field. In the classroom. How many hours in a day did he find to make it all work?

There aren’t many places, aren’t many people that Kiser hasn’t touched since he was a freshman in 2019. He’s reached the point where there are literally no more academic classes for him to take, having already earned an undergraduate degree and a master’s in accounting. Each with some form of cum laude honor. Staggering.

He’s been a student. He’s been an athlete. He was someone who watched the other guys lead when he was younger, then led the younger guys when he was older.

He’s done and seen a lot. Everything, even.

It’s time to go out on the floor of Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday night against Ohio State in the College Football Playoff national championship game and check that one final box, the one that will complete Kiser’s journey through Notre Dame like no other, a journey that nobody may ever top.

Time to be a national champion.

For him. For the program. For the school. The blood, the sweat, the tears and all those tackles (270 and counting, including a…

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Author : South Bend Tribune

Publish date : 2025-01-16 20:54:00

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