kelly Tripucka Interview

[dagimpper1]

Just heard it on WSBT's Weekday podcast. They asked him if he was surprised that ND had not made it to the final 4 since 78. His response was not really. Don't remember his exact words but, i interpreted him as saying it was easier to get the best players back then because admissions was more flexible. Like i said that's how i took it. Did anyone else hear the show and am i right. I always thought after father Ted left academics were tightened and people have been telling me i'm wrong ever since. Father Ted hired Lou and since he left the fb program has been in decline. Things are better now under BK so does that mean admissions is flexible again. Comments on the Tripuka interview please.

 

[mbd11]

I didn't hear the interview, but I did some research (that era was a little before my time as a fan) and in '79 we definitely had a good enough team to make it to the FF again. We had an even better record than in '78 and were the #1 seed in the Mideast Region. However, in the regional final we ran into the #2 seed, Michigan State, led by one of the greatest players of all time. We all know the rest of that story.
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[IrishHerb]

Originally posted by dagimpper1:
… i interpreted him as saying it was easier to get the best players back then because admissions was more flexible. …


Kelly Tripucka played during the later part of the Hesburgh era. Don't think admissions was any easier then than it is now. Maybe back when Kelly's dad Frank Tripucka played, since that was before Hesburgh.

 

[HDK]

Originally posted by IrishHerb:

Originally posted by dagimpper1:
… i interpreted him as saying it was easier to get the best players back then because admissions was more flexible. …


Kelly Tripucka played during the later part of the Hesburgh era. Don't think admissions was any easier then than it is now. Maybe back when Kelly's dad Frank Tripucka played, since that was before Hesburgh.

Herb: I think the requirements are much tougher today than they were in the mid to late '70s, with things being ratcheted up a couple of notches right around 1993 when the football team had its last competitive peak.

 

[IrishHerb]

Originally posted by HDK:

Originally posted by IrishHerb:

Originally posted by dagimpper1:
… i interpreted him as saying it was easier to get the best players back then because admissions was more flexible. …


Kelly Tripucka played during the later part of the Hesburgh era. Don't think admissions was any easier then than it is now. Maybe back when Kelly's dad Frank Tripucka played, since that was before Hesburgh.

Herb: I think the requirements are much tougher today than they were in the mid to late '70s, with things being ratcheted up a couple of notches right around 1993 when the football team had its last competitive peak.

Perhaps so. But that would be during the Malloy and Jenkins tenure. Hesburgh stepped down in 1986 I believe.