I especially liked the section in which the author described how nowdays losing two games and not making the four-team playoff ruins the rest of the regular season for some teams and their zealous fans. In the case of Notre Dame, it's one-game and we're out. The fanatics on that other board are a good example of such overwrought expectations.
Schools such as Notre Dame whose games provide a high level of comforting ritual and cultural affirmation will lose the least but suffer nonetheless.
It is a pleasure to read something on the Internet related to sports that is well-written, including rich vocabulary, coherent paragraphs, complete sentences and proper punctuation.
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