If the SEC has a long history of paying players, it's no more so than other schools. Notre Dame included. I'm glad to see that Notre Dame still considers itself doing it "the right way". Backing into BCS bowl games because of BS media hype is just as "the right way" as having the chutzpah to play for a tie in 1966 because the BS media hype was guaranteed to award ND a national championship over a two-time defending, undefeated, untied Alabama team who put their title on the line and defended it all season long. Yeah, I'm an unabashed Bama fan and I consider your haughty "Notre Dame is better than thou" position pure BS. Notre Dame doesn't have to sacrifice anything to see their "limited success on the football field" tradition continue. They'll continue to see mediocrity without sacrifice. And they'll continue to take 41-14 drubbings against teams like LSU because the hype will continue next season and they'll be back in a BCS bowl.
I don't think so, Tim. It seems as if the pundits actually saw the light this time. Had it not been for their overinflated ranking to start the season last year, they wouldn't have been in a position to scoop up a BCS bid this year. But when you start the season #2, and lose to two top 5 programs for your only losses, you can't really fall far. They have been exposed now, and losing "the great Brady Quinn" will prove to be their demise next year. They won't start the year in the top 15. After getting blown out by the two decent teams they play next year, they'll never make it back into the top 15, thus denying them a shot at a BCS game.
Did anyone see the Army All-American game after their loss to us? That media hype is still going strong and with the addition of a #1 QB recruit I dont see that hype going anywhere, IMO.
Hmm. What station carried that game? That's right, the peackocks. Of course they are going to slober all over ND.
But, LSU's graduation rates are still pretty attrocious, especially compared to ND. Let's look at this USA Today chart, that examined school's graduation rates in 2005 for the respective football teams. ND came out on top, with a graduation rate of 96% while LSU only had 51% of its football players graduate, below the Div-1A average of 65%. How do you explain this? And, LSU has had NFL talent, where players were leaving early for the NFL. But, this chart took into account transfers and early departures so LSU players leaving for the NFL wouldn't have caused LSU's graduation rates to be so poor. www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2005-12-19-graduation-rate-chart.htm
All I can say is that we actually win with our smart guys. Rudy Niswanger was an academic heisman, where are your smart guys, bitter?:hihi:
