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Even in the depths of collapse/an irretrievable death spiral ND still managed to go 12-0 and beat the Rose Bowl champion and play for the national championship. Shit, even last year when they had a kid playing QB who could not throw a ball 30 yards in the air without great difficulty and who ran a 6.6 40 yard dash, they still managed to beat the Rose Bowl Champion and fuck up Michigan State's shot at the national title.
I see no point in hating Notre Dame. In stark contrast to 90% of the programs in college football (and in solidarity with us, Stanford, Vandy, Duke and few others) they actually insist on their players going to class, working hard and graduating. They were also willing to suspend an All-American CB, a WR who will likely be drafted in the top two rounds of the NFL draft and two defensive starters for an entire year for a low-level academic misdemeanor that would not have caused a ripple of concern in places like Tuscaloosa, Tallahassee, Eugene and Columbus.
Truth is, I have very little use for college football anymore. It is entering NBA territory in that it is increasingly played by illiterate scum and in order to be successful you essentially have to run a criminal enterprise. If Stanford and ND with their vast resources and tradition can't be successful--and Stanford appears to be on a downward slope again and ND is a pale shadow of its former self--what chance do we have to sustain long term success? You can cheer their demise, but in doing so you are cheering our college football death as well.
I see no point in hating Notre Dame. In stark contrast to 90% of the programs in college football (and in solidarity with us, Stanford, Vandy, Duke and few others) they actually insist on their players going to class, working hard and graduating. They were also willing to suspend an All-American CB, a WR who will likely be drafted in the top two rounds of the NFL draft and two defensive starters for an entire year for a low-level academic misdemeanor that would not have caused a ripple of concern in places like Tuscaloosa, Tallahassee, Eugene and Columbus.
Truth is, I have very little use for college football anymore. It is entering NBA territory in that it is increasingly played by illiterate scum and in order to be successful you essentially have to run a criminal enterprise. If Stanford and ND with their vast resources and tradition can't be successful--and Stanford appears to be on a downward slope again and ND is a pale shadow of its former self--what chance do we have to sustain long term success? You can cheer their demise, but in doing so you are cheering our college football death as well.