Originally Posted by FanOf28

Try to remember that this is COLLEGE FOOTBALL, and not FOOTBALL COLLEGE. Every one of the Notre Dame players will graduate with a degree worth its weight in gold, whether he ever plays football again or not. Notre Dame is not the NFL minor league, it is a first rate private university which also happens to have a pretty strong athletic program which fans and alumni rally around. I challenge any other school to compare the percentage of its athletes who are still productive members of society ten years after they finish school.

OJ Simpson was a huge score for USC. Look at how good he is at life.

Originally Posted by FanOf28

Try to remember that this is COLLEGE FOOTBALL, and not FOOTBALL COLLEGE. Every one of the Notre Dame players will graduate with a degree worth its weight in gold, whether he ever plays football again or not. Notre Dame is not the NFL minor league, it is a first rate private university which also happens to have a pretty strong athletic program which fans and alumni rally around. I challenge any other school to compare the percentage of its athletes who are still productive members of society ten years after they finish school.

ND IS an excellent school and WAS a great football program. The school is still great but the reality is the program is poor and is only relevant nationally because of success eons ago.

Your challenge is easily answered by looking no further than your opponent this week. BC is too an excellent school, graduates a very high % of its football players (actually higher than ND), "suffers" from the same recruiting dilemna as ND and yet - it's program has been consistently better the past 10 years in spite of not being able to recruit "ND quality" players. BC alums will never expect nor want the Eagles to become another football factory but it does prove a quality program can be run without detracting from the school's value or the student-athlete ideal. Unfortunately for Domers, ND hasn't been able to keep up the past 10 years.