We all knew this already, but it was re-affirmed in last night's ESPN program about the history of Notre Dame football. The Big Ten and Yost fought to keep ND out of the Big Ten.
More fuel for the fire for Saturday's game!
If we do that I think we have more speed and we will make a few big plays on defense. Watch number #6 cause a fumble, that is my prediction.
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....the answer is that there are a lot of UM losers at ESPN, and they simply could not have a story about ND without trying to stick themselves somewhere in it. The truth is that they are not ND, but they desperately want to be.
We need to simply execute and play well, the rest will take care of itself.
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Had ND joined the Western Conference back then, it would not be the ND that we know and love today. His anti-Catholic bigotry was not unusual for his time.
Still, it is amusing that this small man so threatened by a tiny, private Catholic school in Indiana would unknowingly contribute greatly to its ascendency to the top echelon of college football.
So here's to Fielding Yost. You are a true Michigan Man. And screw you.
Screw Michigan
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At least most of you all have a sense of humor.
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century might work better.
Saying it is too remote to have much meaning for the kids today is a fair comment. But that is a different angle than saying it won't resonate because they mostly are not Catholic, which is what you originally put out there.
against Catholics.
the venom that the players should show SCUM based on Yost is just not there. Wouldn’t you agree?
So, I would expect that to resonate with ND players, Catholic or not.
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I'll confess that I attended graduate school at MIchigan and also Michigan State and USC (!). The year I spent in Ann Arbor in 1974-75 was one of the best of my life. Because I was a grad student, I had no contact with the undergrads or the football program. All the grad students were from other states, many from the East Coast, and were just there for a short time to get their degree and move on. They were generally all terrific people, and Ann Arbor as a whole was a fun and magical, totally in tune with the times and a wealth of interesting people to meet.
At SC, I got a whiff of the undergrad and fraternity culture and disliked it greatly. East Lansing was another fun college town but not as hip as A2 or LA.
But none of that compared with the Notre Dame experience. I'm a third generation Domer to the bone.
I may get booted, but I'll also 'fess that I don't hate Michigan. I wasn't taught to generalize and hate huge groups of people.
By the way, there is a nice Newman Center in Ann Arbor.
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There's actually nothing wrong with Ann Arbor as a town. Just using it as a geographical identifier for U of M.
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