We're 5-1 and will be favored in the next 6 games. We may end up with an 11-1 record, this a season after we went 12-1, and before that, we had a 10-3 record. That means that over the past 2 1/2 seasons, we are 27-5. Sure we've come up short (way short) in the last 2 bowl games but 27-5 is pretty damned impressive.
I know we all want to be an elite team and we just aren't there yet but we are still one of the 5 or 6 best teams in the country over that time span.
How sad it is that so many of our fellow posters can't enjoy this success. By just about any measure, this is the best span of ND football since Lou roamed the sideline and yet so many of us can't enjoy it.
Sure you can be critical of how we won and/or the games we lost. I get it but the fact is that we've been winning. Take a breath and enjoy the fact that ND football is back to relevance, even if we are not an elite team. Name one other program that you would trade for our program. Alabama? Clemson? LSU? All of those programs and universities have a different mindset as to academics and student athletes than we do. We're never going to be (hopefully) like any of those universities. We are ND - a unique and special university that at least tries to blend excellence in both academics and athletics.
Take a breath and enjoy what we've got going on...who knows how long it will last.
I know we all want to be an elite team and we just aren't there yet but we are still one of the 5 or 6 best teams in the country over that time span.
How sad it is that so many of our fellow posters can't enjoy this success. By just about any measure, this is the best span of ND football since Lou roamed the sideline and yet so many of us can't enjoy it.
Sure you can be critical of how we won and/or the games we lost. I get it but the fact is that we've been winning. Take a breath and enjoy the fact that ND football is back to relevance, even if we are not an elite team. Name one other program that you would trade for our program. Alabama? Clemson? LSU? All of those programs and universities have a different mindset as to academics and student athletes than we do. We're never going to be (hopefully) like any of those universities. We are ND - a unique and special university that at least tries to blend excellence in both academics and athletics.
Take a breath and enjoy what we've got going on...who knows how long it will last.