Subway Alumni Station A Notre Dame Blog - The Best 28 Blog Posts

We asked our summer intern Claire Marie as part of her orientation to Subway Alumni Station Blog to read all 245 past blog posts.  To review all the polls, quizzes, pictures, ND recruit mug shots and general information.

Claire Marie

The next thing we knew she redesigned the entire Blog!  Yikes.  So if things look a little bit different, blame Claire Marie.

Then she came up with her favorite blog posts (28) and asked that they be listed as a new post.  Her choices are rather strange, some are on the most read list, others very popular and some not so.  Anyway here they are and when you get bored during the Dead Zone time frame, read a few.

BTW we think we are going to keep Claire Marie in a permanent employee status.

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1.  The Dead Zone Cometh Once Again

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2.  Lou Holtz Quotes

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3.  God Bless Texas

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4.  ANNA CHAPMAN TELLS ALL IN HER NOTRE DAME PREDICTIONS FOR 2010!

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5.  Ten Ways to Meet Your Football Coach Behind Closed Doors

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6.  Anatomy of a First Class Jerk Coach - Jim Harbaugh – Stanford

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7.  The Cut Block or Chop Block

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8.  Utes or Yoots?

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9.  Ah the Pageantry, the Rivalry, the Nostalgia

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10. Women of Troy

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11.  Requiem for the Huddle

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12.  Notre Dame Punt Returns - An Exercise in Futility

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13.  Sun Bowl and the Notre Dame SWAG

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14.  How The Planets Are Going To have To Align For Notre Dame To Beat Miami

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15.  Why Kyle Rudolph and Michael Floyd Will Be Back For ND Football In 2011

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16.  tOSU Football Memorabilia For Sale – Cheap

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17.  That’s a Well-Oiled Team

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18.  Seizing and Safeguarding Mo

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19.  The Education of Brian Kelly

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20.  Notre Dame Football Traditionalism

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21.  “Should Notre Dame install a Jumbotron?”

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22.  Anatomy of a Sleazy College Football Program

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23.  Mentoring Ohio State Style

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24.  Why Notre Dame’s Dayne Crist Will Start Against South Florida

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25.  Notre Dame Sports Network

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26.  Notre Dame Beer Sales During Football Games

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27.  Did Kyle Rudolph Make The Right Decision?

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28.  Notre Dame Numbers To Make Your Head Spin

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Notre Dame Student-Athlete Compensation

 

Every time a student-athlete transgresses from the NCAA Rule Book, whether it’s taking money, selling sports memorabilia, getting too cozy with a sports agent or someway profiting from their unique status, a hew and cry goes up from the uninformed. You have heard it a dozen times the latest just this spring with the OSU scandal.

“The student-athletes perform for the University, they should get paid. The University uses (abuses) them like borrowed mules. The NFL, NBA, MLB will pay them big $$ as soon as they leave the confines of the University and NCAA jurisdiction anyway.”

Keep in mind, athletic scholarships are merit and renewed yearly.
Only 1.8% of college football players become professional football players.

Athletic scholarships cover: Tuition and Fees, Room and Board, Books and Supplies. Simple reasoning dictates that an education at a top-notch university is not equal to an education at a small public college. The costs are greatly different and the playing environment is completely different. You get more for your scholarship money in the long run at a high priced university.

Let us look at some numbers.

Annual cost of a Notre Dame athletic scholarship is about:

Cost of Attendance at Notre Dame 2011-2012:

Tuition and Fees:	$41,420
Room and Board:	11,390
Books and Supplies:	950
Total Cost of Attendance:	$53,760
The costs rise yearly of course.

Summer school is all but mandatory for football players. Not to worry they are compensated by scholarship accordingly for the summer semester classes they attend, workouts and participation in unsupervised training and practice.

However, this is not all a student-athletic is entitled to or eligible to receive.

Pell Grants. The Department of Education has a formula based upon a parent’s wealth/earning power. It can be save to say that those in need get it; those that don't do not need it anyway. That is $5,500 per year that the student-athletic can do with what he pleases. It is a grant not a loan. No repayment, just part of our national debt.

Clothing Allowance. If student-athletics qualify for a Pell Grant, they qualify for a yearly $500 to spend on whatever they want to wear. Enforcement is up to the university Compliance Department and receipts are normally required. We do not know if Notre Dame or the Head Coach can say buy a suit for traveling or whether the student-athletic is allowed to purchase Nike shoes and hats. Notre Dame would not return our calls.

Student-Athlete Opportunity Fund. A pot of NCAA funds allocated to each school for all student-athletics, around $200,000 annually. If a football player needs gas money, plane ticket home, extra clothes, or emergency situation arises they can get it from the Athletic Department.

Room and Board. As noted above, that is $11,390 at Notre Dame. If a student-athletic lives off-campus, they get that amount instead of living in Sorin Hall and eating in the South Dining Hall. (Freshmen must live on campus) We could not find out if the mandatory Training Table evening meals were deducted from the 'board' those football players living off-campus. Also we are unsure of the Team rules for living off-campus at Notre Dame. Two or three football players sharing an apartment or house can probably make out OK with a little extra spending money to boot.

Some Miscellaneous Perks of the student-athletic (football player) receives that are not so tangible:

Free publicity, TV, multimedia exposure. Playing before millions. All Notre Dame game’s are obviously televised.

Limited number of football and bowl tickets that they must purchase.

Incredible networking in the sports world. Meeting former players, coaches, and people of influence.

Travel to some American cities they may not have had the opportunity to visit. In 2012, the Notre Dame Football Team is going Dublin Ireland.

Some of the best free health care, physical therapy, training rooms available.

Tons of educational assistance and tutoring.

Free football gear, shirts, hats, shoes, etc.

Bowl game goodies. Read here.

Possible championship ring.

Still some players with god-given talent abuse these incredible privileges and benefits the vast majority of us could never qualify to receive.

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So You Think You Know Notre Dame Football? # 13

#13 What Year Was the IRISH Guard Formed?

1945

1949

1951

1952

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Pryor's Hang-Out

If you are ever in Columbus Ohio and need…

a tattoo

to sell some football memorabilia   

get a bag of weed

hang out with OSU football players

get a lead on where to obtain free loaner automobiles

This WAS the place.  Owner will be moving to Federal accommodations shortly.

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So You Think You Know Notre Dame Football? # 12

BTW - You can still answer/vote on the first 11 questions.  Can You Beat the Wizard? will run through July 31st.

# 12 Who holds the career rushing yards record for Notre Dame?

Autry Denson

Vagas Ferguson

Julius Jones

Allen Pinkett

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Subway Alumni Station Blog Information

It appears another Notre Dame Blog has bit the dust.  We enjoyed the Rakes of Mallow and will miss their insight and humor.  We all must move on.

Our readership here at SAS is up.  Probably because of the lull in Notre Dame Football News as well as Blogs like Rakes of Mallow going under and the lack of activity and posts in a number of other ND Blogs. 

We do try to keep busy here at SAS.

Bleacher Report and SBNation are flooding the information highway with articles and ‘takes’ on sports in general and Notre Dame in particular.  In most cases, the articles are informative. 

We here at SAS would sure like to see some real life in the official Notre Dame Website as well as NDNation.  They represent the best source of news, opinions and rally points for Domers and Subway Alumni alike.  We are all hungry.

As a reminder:

We track all verbal recruits on the right side of the Blog. 

Some really neat pictures of the Notre Dame Campus at the bottom of the Blog.

The Beat the Wizard Quiz is ongoing through July 31 also on the right side of the Blog.

If you only check in once in a while, we list the last ten Blog posts to keep you up to date.

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Notre Dame and Chris Martin

Chris Martin.  Anybody remember him?  He was a Scouts Five Star verbal recruit for Charlie Weis.  An outside linebacker with great speed, size and toughness, a perfect match to play next to Manti Te’o.  Pretty much a jewel in Charlie’s recruiting class and a much-needed defensive player.

We could not find a picture of him wearing a Notre Dame baseball cap, a Cal or Gator uniform.  Guess he never stayed put long enough.

Martin caused a stir when he decommitted from Notre Dame to go to California in December 2009.  Martin said he would go to Notre Dame as long as Charlie Weis was there.  Weis left and so did Martin.  Most of this got lost in the Weis firing and Brian Kelly hiring.

So, Martin went to the Golden Bears of California.  Where in July 2010 the Oakland native said, “My decision to transfer to Florida definitely does not reflect on the football program or the academics at Cal.”

“Rather, I feel like for me to focus and truly reach my potential I need to leave many of the distractions I have here at home in the Bay Area.  I need to venture away from home and start my college career somewhere else where I don’t have those distractions.”

Maybe he wanted to be reunited with Weis.  Well maybe not.

Fast forward to June 24, 2011, Florida head coach Will Muschamp released the news on Chris Martin today via a release from the Sports Information Department at Florida. 

“Chris and his family have indicated that it might be best for him to be closer to home, we wish him nothing but the best of luck,” stated Muschamp. 

Martin was arrested Jan. 29 for possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and also made news in March after posting a message on his Facebook status insinuating he had been dismissed from the team.  He later said it was just an “early April Fools’" joke.

Rumor has it that Martin is headed to the state of Colorado where he actually played some football in high school once upon a time.

Chris Martin’s travels remind us of Randy Moss who went from a Notre Dame recruit, to FSU and marijuana, to Marshall and stardom.

Good luck Chris.  How many credit hours do you have?  Any transferable?

We think Notre Dame unknowingly dodged a bullet.

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Did Notre Dame’s Jeff Samardzija back in 2006 Make The Right Decision?

Let’s review.

First things first.  Jeff desperately needs a haircut.

He set single-season school records in both receiving yardage and touchdown receptions. Samardzija caught a TD pass in each of Notre Dame's first eight games in 2006, giving him the school record for consecutive games with a TD reception. Samardzija made 78 catches for 1,017 yards and 12 touchdowns in 13 games in the 2006 season to finish as the all-time Fighting Irish leader in reception yards with 2,593.  Of course Golden Tate has since taken that record.  He made the Football Writers Association of America All-America Team following the 2006 season.  He was projected as a first round draft pick in the NFL draft.  Great hands.  Super size.  Average speed.  Good head on his shoulders.

Jeff’s love was/is baseball.  The Chicago Cubs got some good players in rounds 1-4 of the 2006 Draft and held their breath until the 5th round and when their turn came again, they breathed a sigh of relief: Jeff Samardzija was still there, they wanted him.  After a protracted negotiation, the Cubs ultimately gave Samardzija a $2.5M bonus and a 5 year, $10M major league contract with a no-trade clause.  Man did he have some great agents!

So how has the Cub’s $12.5 million bonus baby done?

Four seasons in the majors, (2008-2011) Jeff has a win loss record of 9-8 with 1 save.  His ERA is 5.31.  This is the last year of his contract and it is safe to say Jeff’s baseball career is probably over.

Could he have done better in the NFL?  Who knows?

Did he save/invest his $12.5 Million?  We hope so.

Hopefully his degree, connections, ND networking will land him something to build a career on in the future.

Good luck Jeff.  We never tired of you catching the football for the IRISH.  Especially against UCLA.  What a game. 

Here it is.

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David Ruffer – Academic All-American

It has just been announced that David Ruffer has been honored as a Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-American for 2010-2011.

Congratulations young man as you earn your masters degree from Notre Dame this coming year.  We are hoping that you will kick your way into fame and glory for the Fighting IRISH.

To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have received sophomore athletic and academic standing at his/her current institution.

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Notre Dame - Odds and Ends - June 23 2011

Becky our summer intern came up with the idea of periodic posts concerning tidbits and Odds and Ends concerning Notre Dame Football too short to be worthy of a full blown article.  We let her ride the Yellow Line from beginning to end and back again.  Then she scoured the internet, wire services, and chat rooms to provide the following Notre Dame related short topics during the dreaded Dead Zone (here is the Dead Zone link).

** Apparently, former Michigan Head Coach Rich Rodriguez has landed a job with CBS Sports.  Obviously we will not see him on the Skunkbear sidelines anymore.  Rather when we watch Notre Dame play Michigan, Purdue and Stanford we will have a chance of hearing his expert analysis on CBS.

** Speaking of our enemy the Skunkbears, Brady Hoke their new Head Coach appears to fit right in with the linemen.  If we gave Sparty Head Coach Mark  Dantonio a heart attack last year, Hoke is eating his way to one.

Brady Hoke

** Rivals 2011 Recruit Class Rank:

1) Alabama
2) Texas
3) LSU
3) Florida
5) USC
6) FSU
7) Georgia
8) Oklahoma
9) Notre Dame
10) Ohio State
11) Michigan

We think it is safe to say we'll take a top ten recruit ranking every year thank you very much.  We'll let Brian Kelly and his boys train and develop them.

** With roughly two weeks remaining in FY 2011, the overall conference distributions from the Big Ten to each school in conference is $22.56M.  Of that amount, $16.63M is listed as television (Football and Basketball).  Nebraska will formally join the conference on 1 July.

For FY 2012, the budget shows overall conference distributions of $23.75M with $17.58 coming from television (Football and Basketball).

In comparison, the mighty Southeastern Conference (SEC) recently announced that the average distribution to its 12 members in 2010-11 was $18.3 million. That figure includes TV, bowls, the SEC football title game, SEC basketball tournament and NCAA Tournament distributions.

In addition to the revenue from television rights, the other sources of money for the conference distributions are from the NCAA men's basketball tournament, football bowl games and other miscellaneous sources.  Not exactly chump-change.  Although Notre Dame figures are private, it has been reported elsewhere that the IRISH are not far behind that figure.  Not bad for an Independent.

** Here is a better photo of the Retro Jersey to be worn by Notre Dame at Ann Arbor come September 10th.  We all like it except for the rather large Adidas logo.

** Well surprise, surprise the college football bowl schedule for the 2011-12 season has been announced, featuring 35 games in 23 days and ending with the Allstate BCS National Championship Game Jan. 9 in New Orleans.

The bowl season will open Dec. 17 with three games -- the New Mexico Bowl, the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl and the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl.

The traditional bowl date of Jan. 1 will have no games because it falls on a Sunday, when the NFL plays a full schedule of games to close its regular season, assuming a collective bargaining agreement has been reached.

The Rose Bowl Game Presented By Vizio is Jan. 2; the Allstate Sugar Bowl is Jan. 3; the Discover Orange is Jan. 4; and the Tostitos Fiesta is Jan. 5.

Money, the networks, money, advertisers, money, and more money have taken over college football.  35 games, Mmmmm that’s 70 teams out of 120.  Man you have got to be pretty bad to be staying home.  How many 6-6 or even 5-7 teams will be playing?
 

** So much for simple black and white football gloves.  I remember when they first came on the scene.  Someone got the idea of using scuba diving gloves because they gripped so well.  Check out what Notre Dame players will be wearing this year.

** Interesting Wall Street Journal article: read it here.

The NCAA’s Last Innocents.  The key article question: Are there any big-time sports schools that have never been slapped with a major NCAA rules violation?  Yes and they are Boston College, Northwestern, Penn State and Stanford.  It appears the infamous Kim Dunbar affair did Notre Dame in.

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So You Think You Know Notre Dame Football? # 11

# 11 Who holds the career game passing record for Notre Dame?


Jimmy Clausen


Joe Montana


Brady Quinn


Joe Theisman

Eilar Hardy – Safety – A Notre Dame Man

Well summer school has surely commenced in South Bend.  The freshman football players have arrived at Notre Dame.  Lucky them, hello new world.  Some are more intense than others.  Some more dedicated to the Notre Dame Spirit.  Some more committed.   

You know the story about the breakfast meal of ham and eggs.  The chicken participates but the pig is committed.
 

Well Eilar Hardy is committed.  The 6’0”, 180 lb. future safety from Pickerington Ohio for the Fighting Irish went one-step further than expected.  He is showing his dedication, spirit and determination on his sleeve so to speak.

Check out Eilar’s right arm.

It will be interesting to see how much Eilar has bulked up and toned up to prepare himself as a future safety.  180 pounds will not cut it.  His average speed and toughness dictates his integration into the safety position.

Good Luck Eilar.  Study hard.  The degree is what matters.  If you happen crush a whole bunch of Notre Dame opponents, well that’s icing on the cake.

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Did Kyle Rudolph Make The Right Decision?

Way back on December 12^th, Subway Alumni Station posted an article concerning why we thought both Michael Floyd and Kyle Rudolph would return for their final season playing football for Notre Dame.  Here it is.  Well of course only Michael made the decision to return.  Rudolph saw his chances for the NFL draft being quite high due to the absence of quality tight ends in the 2011 class and grabbed the brass ring. 

So has the brass ring turned out to be a fresh cow pie?

Rudolph went in the draft about where expected/projected, 11^th in the second round, 43 overall.  What was unexpected was the team – the Minnesota Vikings.  That got a lot of heads to scratching.  Of course, this is the team that played pretty-please to Brett Favre in 2010 and dumped a head coach that decided he was general manager and owner all in one.  One disaster of a year.

The Vikings currently have not one, but three tight ends on roster and of course, that does NOT include Rudolph who has been drafted but unsigned.

31 year old Visanthe Shiancoe (don’t ask me to pronounce his name) started and caught 47 passes, for 530 yards and 2 touchdowns. 

34-year-old Jim Kleinsassor had 17 receptions for 148 yards.

Third string Jeff Dugan who is 30 had 4 catches for 30 yards.  (If I were Jeff and Jim I'd be looking for a full-time job.)

Tight ends were not a favorite target of Viking quarterbacks in 2010.  We here at SAS don’t really follow the Vikings but it appears the opponents backfield were more the intended target in many cases than Viking receivers.  What a new head coach and offensive coordinator will bring to Minneapolis and the offense remains to be seen.

It appears Shiancoe is a respectable TE with some years left in him with a team and league that does not regularly throw in that direction but uses TE’s as blockers.  Anyway, it appears Kyle was too good of a deal to pass up.  Who knows he could become trading fodder.

Anyway, where does this leave Kyle?  He has a playbook and an agent.  He can particpate in private workouts with future team members and continue individual training and fitness.

He cannot negotiate a contract or threaten to boycott a training camp that does not exist. 

No contact with the Viking coaching staff.

No use of training facilities, trainers, or staff.

Kyle cannot fight/compete for a place on the roster or starting position because he has no venue to show his wares.

If the NFL greed mongers come to their senses and salvage the professional football season, it seems likely the rookies are going to be targeted for salary caps of some sort.

Thus, time is running out for Kyle and all the rookies to earn roster positions or even starting slots.

Kyle did not take part in any post-season bowl game, senior bowl, North-South Game, East-West Game because of his injury and surgery.  He passed on the combine in Indianapolis for the same reason.  His ‘try-out’ at Notre Dame went very well and probably solidified his second round pick.  However, he has not been able to show-off for the Vikings.  The clock is ticking. 

On the Viking website, management acknowledges that they have a lease on a summer training facility and the drop-dead date on exercising the lease option is July 18^th.  The NFL has a month to come to their senses or the season is lost.  So could be Kyle.  The 2011 crop the TE’s appears to be richer that 2010.  Who knows what will happen to the 2011 draftees.

Kyle Rudolph could be enrolled in summer school at Notre Dame.  Earning a masters degree.  Engaged in the 7-on-7 practices, working with Paul Longo the ND strength guru and pretty much guaranteed the starting TE position.  Maybe an All-American?  Maybe a BCS bid for Notre Dame?  Maybe a first round draft choice in 2013?

Good Luck Kyle.  Go Vikings!  Sack England!

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Matt Hegarty - The Right Kind Of Guy For Notre Dame

Here is a great article about a smart young man with his head screwed on straight. This is quite refreshing after the OSU fiasco, the U$C Bush Heisman shame and pending debacles at UNC, Auburn, and TN. It seems all you hear about are the arrests, DWI’s, suspensions, felonies and misdemeanors committed by college football players.


Matt Hegarty is a 6’5” 4-star, offensive lineman from tiny Aztec New Mexico (pop. 6,300+) who will be attending summer school in South Bend. He brings a 3.8 GPA to Notre Dame.

Couple of interesting tidbits from that article.

Matt understands and accepts he will be redshirted his freshman year. That says two things. Our offensive line finally has some depth and that Coach Brian Kelly is bringing in players who understand that they need further development.

Matt has added 20 pounds to his high school season ending weight and thanks to the Notre Dame long distance conditioning program under Paul Longo, he weighs in at a respectable 292 pounds of lean muscle. Matt dedicated himself to the ND fitness program this past spring while finishing up at Aztec.

Bring your long underwear Matt, welcome to long Northern Indiana winters.

Here’s hoping you end up at left tackle guarding the next Notre Dame Golden Boy.

So You Think You Know Notre Dame Football? # 10

#10 Which Jersey Number Has Notre Dame Retired?

 13

 16

 18

 ND has not retired any numbers

So You Think You Know Notre Dame Football? # 9

# 9 Terry Hanratty was on the Heisman Trophy ballot three years in a row.

TRUE

FALSE

So You Think You Know Notre Dame Football? # 8

# 8 Which ND Heisman Trophy winner won the award while having a losing season?

Paul Hornung

Leon Hart

Johnny Lattner

Tim Brown

The Notre Dame Retro Uniform

Well Adidas, hosting UM, and Notre Dame rolled out there respective “old time,” “throwback,” or “retro” football uniforms for the much ballyhooed night game on September 10^th in Ann Arbor.  As long as the IRISH pound those Skunkbears I could care less if, they were wearing pink tights and spiked heels.

Still it appears to be a gimmick to make $$$.  We talked about The Subtle New Marketing of Notre Dame Football back on April 2^nd.  Adidas will of course make a bundle of money out of the Notre Dame Bookstore at $80 a pop for the jersey.  Some say it will help recruiting, but of course they say anything can help recruiting.  Thank goodness we are the visitors if that is what Adidas and Notre Dame thought would be cool retro uniforms.  If we were home team they probably would have rolled out some fluorescent green monstrosity.  At least we’re not going to be wearing leather helmets although the shamrock looks pretty tacky on our gold ones. 

But of course, the white shoes and green laces are just as bad.  Shouldn’t it be black leather high-tops?

Have not figured out if the jersey is supposed to be tucked in or not.

Oh well, it’s only for one game.  Hope the boys don’t autograph their game jerseys and try to sell them.

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