I also have to give a shoutout to the Martin's salad bar. Cierre knows what's up. Their deli is not too shabby either. Oh, and I met the Miller Highlife guy there once... I guess it was about a year and a half ago. Martin's has definitely been good to me over the years.
Other people I've met on campus:
**** Vitale at Rolfs
Lou Holtz at the bookstore
Mike Golic at the bookstore
Digger Phelps at Stanford Hall (motivational speech)
Regis Philbin in front of Zahm
I love going back to campus. I can't wait for USC this year.
Man, I was just at Martin's like 2 friggin days ago and I didn't see any ND players!!! I was sure there'd be like 20 of them scattered about LOL. I did see a big white dude (ripped) at the Subway across the street from campus. Knew he was an athlete, but couldn't place the face. So I asked him if he balled at ND, and he was a hockey player that had just graduated. Does that count?
I did meet Bob Golic last year at the ND/USC luncheon here in SoCal. He took a picture with me, but he was much more interested in taking the picture with my wife (no lie; I told my wife he'd probably rather take a picture with her, and he laughed and agreed wholeheartedly. He was kidding of course - sort of). He's definitely got a bit of a cocky personality though, but nothing too bad. Also met Derrick Mays that day, who couldn't have been more gracious with his time. Seriously, I told him we'd let him go because we were sure he was busy, and he told us that was nonsense and went right on talking to us. Awesome guy.
At that luncheon, I saw BK speak. Like others have said, he looks the same exact same in person. I wrote about that luncheon last November on this site - and to repeat, he is just an awesome speaker. Captivating really, while Lane stumbled through a preplanned interview (but I digress).
Name drop time - went to Justin Tuck's wedding and got to meet him (great guy, GREAT family). Met Ryan Grant at the same wedding. My wife, then gf, knew him in college and they actually flew on the same flight together back to L.A. I had a separate flight and missed the chance to hang with him for 2 hrs in the waiting area - and this was right in the middle of the Favre saga! RRRRRRRGG!!!!
For the veteran ND fans here, I've met Tommy 'The Hawk' Hawkins several times, and he's the greatest. My aunt's boyfriend is his good buddy, and they work jazz/blues festivals together, so I get to see him at those quite a bit. The man is huge and as genuine as they come.
My wife knew a lot of the players - Shark, Zibby, Tuck, Stovall, Ryan Harris, Anthony Fasano, a lot of those guys. Perks of being a student at ND, where the football players live among the student body, as many ND grads here can attest to. She was really good friends with Mo Stovall in college. Said they were really cool guys, except for Zibby, who she said was quite conceited (her words, not mine!!!).
