SOUTH BEND – Notre Dame’s 84-72 loss to Boston College came during its most tumultuous time of the season. [autotag]Mike Brey[/autotag]’s upcoming retirement being reported 48 hours earlier only added to the stress of what has happened with this season. Now, the Irish have lost nine of their past 11 games, and nobody can quite figure out what exactly has gone wrong. All anyone knows is things are bad, and they have no choice but to play through it.
Brey met the media after the latest defeat along with [autotag]Nate Laszewski[/autotag], who was coming off a career-high 29 points, and [autotag]Cormac Ryan[/autotag]. The feeling was some combination of disbelief and resignation. All of them are aware of everything that has happened, and it can’t be a good feeling to know the remaining schedule hasn’t even reach single digits. The rest of the season figures to be long and continually frustrating.
Here is some of what they said: