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Link: http://athletics.und.com/nl/jsp/m.jsp?c=97deed80988b06ce7f
they have called me at home twice this year. I have not gone to a game in 6 years and am not an alum either. I have told them I would just rather watch it on tv and I only live 35 miles away. I used to go to every game and several bball games a year too.
Sad to see that a great deal of what made Notre Dame special is being tossed in the dumpster in pursuit of an Ivy League model and the elevation of Secular Humanism.
Realize this is really beyond the scope of the Football board, but the lack of understanding of the Football program and its place and proper importance...coupled with the inability, in an increasing number of circumstances, to treat Notre Dame alumni and friends with common decency results from an Administration and a University that have increasingly lost their way.
League with hard work not being rewarded but stat keeping on college admissions too important.
be a truly Catholic university anymore. I mean Vagina Monologue (or whatever it is called), Obama on campus, and the award to Biden, ad nauseum. It has really turned off a lot of my Catholic friends in the Western, PA area. Secular Humanism sounds about right.
I get that Notre Dame has lost a few steps. But, is it Francisan Steubenville or nothing for Catholics now? That can't be the case.
Those sneaky Va JJs have done it before and will do it again!
(We (Catholics) do tend to get caught up in Pelvic Theology (and I've not seen the "...Monologues" but I assume it spends alot of its energy on the topic.))
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Link: Sycamore Trust
I was recently asked by Notre Dame to answer a survey in regards to my opinion of Notre Dame. I replied with answers similar to your points.
1. Overpriced product
2. Mediocre product
3. Poorly thought out roll out of new process (a.k.a SURPRISE!)
4. Badly (and I mean really suck ass) communications with the stakeholders (and I mean the folks who buy the tickets.)
I could really be off on this but the overt arrogance and disregard of the ND administration towards its long time alumni in launching this new process with no 'warning' whatsoever and sloppy communications could have major negative consequences.
All in all, it will be interesting to see what happens with ticket sales. In the past, one had hoped for good seats and perhaps a good game. When the result is people getting poor seats for so-so games it was accepted because it was an after-the-fact impact. Now if I go and see my choices are $90 seats for Temple/Miami (OH), I'll pass. If they think that next year I'm going to give more money to move up the food chain, they are going to be sadly mistaken.
Unless they change their pricing strategy (they say the pricing structure is in place for 2 years), I bet they don't sell 50,000 seats for Ball State or Syracuse next year. Thinking people will pay filet prices for a hamburger product is never a good strategy.
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