I wouldn’t be a very good “Irish Trojan” if I didn’t blog about this:
“RESOLVED: That the University of Notre Dame should defeat the University of Southern California in the 2006 collegiate football contest� will be the featured topic as the debate teams from legendary football rivals Notre Dame and USC square off for the first time at 4 p.m. Friday (April 28) in the Decio Theatre of the DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts at Notre Dame.
Two representatives from each university will argue the topic in front of a public audience. Tim Fiorta and Corey Mehlos, captains of Notre Dame’s parliamentary and policy debate teams, respectively, will compete against USC’s Michael Smith and Brandon Hancock, a member of the football team who is expected to start at fullback for the Trojans next season.
The football game Nov. 25 in Los Angeles will mark the 80th anniversary of the first game of what is considered the greatest intersectional rivalry in collegiate sports.
The Notre Dame Debate Team, composed of students from Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College and Holy Cross College, this year formed its first policy debate team in more than a decade, thanks to the support of alumnus William T. Carey and his wife, Helen. The team is a member of the National Debate Tournament, the most expansive competitive debate organization in the country.
The Notre Dame-USC debate is free and open to the public, but tickets are required and are available by calling the DeBartolo box office at 574-631-2800.
Heh.
April 27th, 2006 at 6:30:32 pm
Yes! Brandon Hancock will undoubtedly defeat his puny Notre Dame counterparts with sheer brute rhetorical force, but, should that fail, he will instead bench press each one of them 50 times each and then mention that, since he was on Scrubs the other night, he wins.
Notre Dame delenda est. Ergo sum.
April 27th, 2006 at 6:57:15 pm
I noticed that Randal McCloy, the one survivor from the Sago mining disaster, is wearing an ND hat. Just found that interesting.
April 27th, 2006 at 7:03:03 pm
Brandon Hancock is on steroids. I know this for a fact.
Brendan, could you go to this event and audio blog it or something?
April 27th, 2006 at 7:19:53 pm
The audio quality on audioblogging via cell phone is generally quite poor… but I’ll try to figure something out.
April 27th, 2006 at 7:25:44 pm
Brandon Hancock is a monster.
April 28th, 2006 at 12:56:56 am
a Sillybusiness if ever i Saw one :>