Odds that Freeman's detractors here are not alums?

There was a talent gap or we would have been blown out because they controlled most of the game. Regardless what the yards and time of possession say.

This proves the talent gap is clearly not enough. It takes coaching with fire, for a purpose, and players who play with demon possessed emotion and reckless abondon. Sure, there is fire and purpose in the lockerroom. But this year, it doesn't look like the other top 10 big time matchups. We are much more reserved in a relative sense.

Though NDs talent is possibly at the highest it has ever been. Some of the best in the country, and things are pointing up in a very good way. We have very few demon possessed, play with your hair-on-fire, infectious personalities on the team. KVA, might be the only player who qualifies.

In tight games, in top 10 time match ups, this is the type of charater trait that separates the winners from the losers. It's the hole notion of "the bad guy always gets the girls." So far, we have proven... to still be on the wrong side of this divide.

Some fans find this acceptable. Most do not. ND insiders do not. ND media do not. It's possible but it is mostly just guys who think that our coaching staff wouldn't be out coached and our elite players wouldn't be out played after a six game warm up schedule to start the season. And again, look past Navy at your own peril.

This is now a business the students are employees and getting eyeballs on the screen is the product. ND literally can't afford to operate like Biff and Chaz's boutique cigar club unless they really do want to become "irrelevant".

In my view, the tea totaling fans have been the problem forever. Sit on your hands and make no noise, give dirty looks to those that do. Yeah, way to support the team and create an environment that's hard to play in. Or even to inspire recruits to want to play there.

The Michigan man style air of superiority doesn't hold water when you lose for nearly 4 decades straight.

And the depth of family ties from Catholicism and ND representing it's values shoukdn't be understated. To say you're a real fan because you have a degree is pretty arrogant. Notre Dame's football victories over secular and Protestant schools is/was a source pride for millions of Catholics. Fandom was passed down through generations in Catholic schools, and families as an extension of the faith. I'd say in many respects Catholics have a greater tie to the university than their non-Catholic degree holding brethren. Or the cafeteria styles that use the degree, but dont uphold the core integrity of the faith.

To minimize the cultural contribution and significance of ND to degree holders as simply a school is incredibly short sighted. What about those families who have graduates and scrapped and saved to put them through school? Should the rest of the family be shunned and relegated to root for State U as they don't have the required elite fandom credentials?

Do run of the mill Catholics have to sit behind the degree holders during mass in the basilica? Is that the atmosohere ND elitists want to foster? For crying out loud watch Rudy.