When a football team can’t play at its home stadium for a whole season – usually due to construction of some kind, as is the case with Notre Dame this fall – it usually suffers a decline in performance and support.

But Notre Dame senior linebacker/defensive end Faustie Capobianco said the Crusaders’ temporary move to Lafayette’s Fisher Stadium has been a positive.

“They are demolishing the athletic building at Notre Dame and building a new one, so our field is a construction zone,” Capobianco said. “Lafayette has been awesome – they put our Crusader stuff on their megatron so it feels like a home game. Their locker rooms are very nice. Our students have beebn great and the whole community has shown up. Playing North Schuykill there, it was a big game and it felt like a playoff game. Othe

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