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Entering his second season at the University of Notre Dame, Brian Hardin serves as director of football media relations and is the primary media contact for the Notre Dame football program. Hardin works with Irish head coach Charlie Weis, Notre Dame players and assistant coaches while serving as the primary day-by-day liason with the media. He coordinates interviews, oversees production of football publications and other various football publicity items, as well as works closely with football game-day operations and all other aspects of the football program as it pertains to media relations and sports information. Prior to joining Notre Dame, Hardin spent three seasons working in the media relations department of the Chicago Bears. He worked as a media relations assistant from 2004-05, assisting in all aspects of pulic relations for the 2005 NFC North Division champions. Hardin's responsibilities included coordinating interviews for players and coaches, including working with a handful of specific players, writing and editing media guide and game program materials and partnering in the production of the team's weekly game notes package. Originally from Des Moines, Iowa, he assisted with many of the same functions with the team's public relations operation as a media relations intern during the 2003 season. He also spent one season as an inern in the Loyola University sports information office in Chicago- serving as the primary contact for cross country and track and field, women's soccer and men's volleyball and assisting with men's and women's basketball. A 2002 graduate of Marquette University, Hardin earned a bachelor's degree in jounralism. He was a four-year letterwinner in track at Marquette, captaining the team as a senior, and also assisted in the sports information department as a senior, working with men's golf and assisting with men's basketball. He also has worked the 2002 NCAA Women's Basketball Mideast Regional (in Milwaukee, with Marquette the host), the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Miller Park in Milwaukee, the 2004 Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament and the 2007 NFC Divisional and Championship games. |
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