I've tried to always root for Notre Dame over the years. They've always had that mystique and that tradition that sent chills down my spine when I saw them walk out of the tunnel and into Notre Dame Stadium.
Those days are long gone.
News has just come out that Notre Dame will decline playing in a bowl game this year despite being bowl eligible at 6-6. I guess they're too good for any bowl other than the BCS bowls. Kind of like they're too good to join a conference.
Notre Dame has been refusing bowl bids for years and years now so it shouldn't come as too much of surprise. Notre Dame went from 1925 to 1970 without playing in a bowl game if that tells you anything.
This just makes me sick. I understand that you just fired your head coach, but you owe it to the players and the fans to go out their and get a win. It doesn't matter who it's against. If they want to put you up against Wyoming then you take it.
There's nothing good that's going to come out of skipping the bowl game and ending your 2009 season losing four in a row. That is unless you're scared of losing to a smaller football program. Who knows. Maybe they are.
There was originally a remote possibility that Notre Dame could have been matched up with my school, Middle Tennessee State. Of course, that would never fly with the Fighting Irish.
Notre Dame fans need to get over themselves because they're no longer the prestigious program that it once was. In fact, they're just another average program that is good every now and then. The only difference is they're an independent and not in a conference, which in my mind puts them in the same class as the other independents who get no respect in football.
Big time coaches like Urban Meyer and Bob Stoops want nothing to do with Notre Dame because they know the program is no longer what it use to be. Notre Dame is gradually falling down the college football pecking order and other Midwestern teams like Cinicinatti and Pittsburgh are moving past them.
Don't worry guys, maybe the biased Lou Holtz will come back and coach your team. He's obviously better at coaching than he is as a college football analyst. After all he did predict the Irish to go undefeated with maybe a close loss to USC. I must say, great prediction.
The one good thing I have to say about Notre Dame at this point is wide receiver Golden Tate. This guy is one of the best pound for pound wide receivers in the country. He has 15 touchdowns and just under 1,500 yards receiving for the year.
If I was Tate I would take whatever the NFL offers in the upcoming offseason. No reason to return to this train wreck in South Bend.
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