Eaten Alive...

I hate Notre Dame. I hate everything that they stand for. And I most especially hate the way they think they are College Football. As I watched the press conference today I had to turn it off because the atheletic director shared those exact thoughts. As he went on about how Notre D ame Football competing for National Championships is great for the game and his university. Nobody gives a damn about Notre Dame.

I'd contest that Notre Dame being good is good for Notre Dame and Notre Dame only. Sure when they're good more people pay attention. We all know them. The Gerber family or about any Catholic you know. "Notre Dame is going to murder you're squad on Saturday" and you respond, "Who's playing QB for the Irish?" and they have no response. They watch their Irish and couldn't tell you who their competition is. These great seasons only generate money for the Irish, there's no benefit to the country full of much better stories.

So on a cold day in November the Golden Dome sits tarnished again. No longer the center of the College Football with no one but themselves to blame. The Independent status that they hold so highly, the multi-million dollar NBC deal, the alleged "extremely high" academic standards. They make them easy to hate. Independence is ignorant these days. The only teams left Independent are not good enough to be in conference. The NBC deal only estranges them from the youth of today. Nobody's watching the NBC game of the week anymore like the 1970s, kids care about the SEC, BigTen, Pac10, and Big12. Those are the big boys, wanna play with 'em then play 'em. In each of those conferences there's a team with high standards, but they somehow manage to field competitive teams without using it as an excuse.

Go on Notre Dame pay your way out of a mistake. And go make another. Take Brian Kelly, another offensive mastermind without a knack for the other side of the ball. Call up Urban Meyer and Bob Stoops. They'll agree that they're in much better position than a trip to South Bend could ever put them in. Notre Dame isn't the pinnacle of sport anymore, time to accept it and move on cuz Rudy aint commin back.