crazyness!! thru and thru. Get a load of this Chicago sports news article: ‘Long, weird day for Irish’ ” At kickoff, the heat index at Notre Dame Stadium was 98 degrees. And that was the least oppressive part of the weather Saturday. The heat spawned two waves of severe thunderstorms that rolled through northern Indiana Saturday, delaying Notre Dame’s battle with South Florida for nearly three hours. “I’m from California. They don’t have thunder and all that other crap,” said running back Cierre Wood when asked if he had ever experienced anything like Saturday’s atmospheric shenanigans. The delay at halftime was the worst, lasting two hours and 10 minutes as lightning struck all around Notre Dame’s campus. That meant each side had to deal with about 120 minutes of downtime before taking the field for a warmups. “Everybody was pretty antsy,” said safety Harrison Smith. “At first we just sat in the locker room, just like it was halftime. Then they kept delaying it, so we took our shoulder pads off, trying to air out — we were all wet. It was almost like a two-a-day for us, so we were kind of used to it.” But, despite the two-a-day feel, it was all new to Smith. “I’ve never experienced anything like that,” said Smith. “I guess it’s part of the game, so, you just gotta go with it.” The other side, however, did experience a weather delay earlier this year. South Florida experienced a lightning delay at its first scrimmage this year in Vero Beach, according to coach Skip Holtz …
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