Notre Dame is the most silly ass institution in collegiate sports today. The higher ups in the school and athletic department are delusional, detached, depraved, entitled racists, and pederasts. The fan base is a groveling collection of fan boys who never outgrew Disney movies, and still love to go to an air show. A general fascination with bright shiny things, familiar noises, and a need for sappy morally bankrupt drama to replace reality when things get difficult is their collective character. The school itself is easily mistaken for a very opulent travel plaza on I80, but instead of serving weary travelers a slice of Sabaro on their way to Chicago all Notre Dame ever serves anyone is a great big self serving portrait of their own perceived greatness. If it weren’t so pathetic it would be sickening.
You could speak at length about the utter travesty that Notre Dame football has been since they were done coasting on their advantages gained during WWII, the illegitimate Heisman Trophy awarded to Paul Horning member of a 2-8 ND squad over a player as great as Jim Brown, The inflated standings in the polls, the NCAA record long bowl losing streak, the rampant cheating under Lou Holtz, The racially motivated firing of Tyrone Willingham, The infomercial quality of their NBC coverage, The farce that was Rudy Rudager, the utter size of their current head coach, and the sexual orientation of their current QB, but this isn’t a football blog so I’ll leave it there… Except to say that Tim Brown somehow won a Heisman Trophy while pulling in 36 catches and racking up 8 total TDs while playing for a 4 loss team, and we are all supposed to be impressed by the 7 Heisman winners at nd. If the football team were any more of a travesty it would take away from what is easily the most comicaly over rated college basketball team since they hung the first peach basket.
- Luke Harangody plays like a guy a the Y…and not even one of the good players. He plays like a guy who thinks he could have been really good if he didn’t blow out his knee in high school, and now he gets alot of satisfaction in using his baby hook and arsenal of strange post moves to stupefy better players that are offput watching his over the top nonsense.
- Kyle McAlarney couldn’t start for most teams in the Horizon League. He can’t create a shot, play defense, or hit a contested jumper. He gets alot of miles out of having some range and irish sounding name.
- Tory Jackson is a half assed show boating and1 wannabe. His dribble drive makes the Godey look graceful.
- Ryan Ayers is Randy Ayers son. That is all.
- Luke Zeller would cry himself to sleep in his huge pillow after one 90 minute practice with Tom Izzo.
- Mike Brey made Tommy Amaker look smart when they were on the Puke staff together.
- Digger Phelps and his idiotic devotion to a school that fired him 3 decades ago would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. He never even got them to a final four. in 1996 Rick Stansbury got Mississippi State to a Final Four. In 2002 Mike Davis got Indiana to a national championship game. Do you think those guys will be given free run on Gameday to talk about Mississippi State and Indiana with as much naked homersim as Digger when they hang it up? No way. And they have achieved a level of success beyond anything he ever did.
- The Joyce Center has pull out wooden bleachers, an old AV pull down screen that they use for player intro slideshows, and a concourse that smells like a church basement. There are no less than 7 teams in the MAC with better basketball facilities.
Keep NotreDame off of ESPN until they have a legitimate program. Stop trying to pretend they are good just because the elite sports media want them to be. They are the 10th best program in the Big East, at best a bubble team, and even if their publicist Digger Phelps won’t admit it an annoyance to true college basketball fans.
I should add that in the 2nd Rd. of the 2002 NCAA tournament in Boston, Duke and Notre Dame played what is quite possibly the most disturbing basketball game I have ever seen. A player on one of the teams pooped himself ( I am 90% sure it was Mike Dunleavy) and both teams got it all over themselves. The CBS announcers did not comment on this, but it was pretty evident. It was a classic example of how the elite sports movie could ignore even the presence of excrement when it comes to their favorites.
Notre Dame Sucks.
