SOUTH BEND ― When did the 2024 Notre Dame football season get real for you?
Was it the win in the opener at Texas A&M over Labor Day Weekend, or the win in the finale at USC over Thanksgiving weekend?
Was it walking into Notre Dame Stadium on that cold Friday night in December for the first on-campus College Football Playoff game (and win), or walking into Merecedes-Benz Stadium on that cold Monday night in January and seeing that national championship logo there on the field?
What moment did it for you? Any? All?
How about none?
Notre Dame director, feature content John Fornaro knew he had something special during what was the football program’s lowest moment in 2024, maybe the lowest moment in decades. On that September Saturday at Notre Dame Stadium, Fornaro felt something that only a person in his position could after the loss to Northern Illinois went final.
Charged with overseeing the first season of “Here Come the Irish,” a docuseries that aired on Peacock last season, Fornaro wasn’t going to let one loss keep him from making what he thought had the makings of something special.
Break the doc? How about make it?
“It was like, all right, this could go one of two ways,’” Fornaro said Thursday from a darkened Notre Dame Stadium interview room. “I will say, after the Northern Illinois game, you kind of knew it was real. You knew the show was real.”
Real because for as low of a moment as that loss was for everyone associated with Notre Dame football – from the head coach on down – they treated it, and treated Fornaro and his crew, just as they had done the previous week after…
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Publish date : 2025-08-14 21:04:00
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