The funny thing is, what is the difference between Duke basketball, Yankee baseball and ND football?? ND is the only one that hasn't won, or come close for that matter, to winning a title in recent memory (or decades in ND's case).
I think ND should focus on trying to beat northwestern before they think they can compete for anything greater.
A little perspective:
When um won 1/2 of the 1997 NC, it had been 49 years since their last one.
When tennessee won the NC in 1998, it had been 47 years since their last one.
When osu won the NC in 2002, it had been 34 years since their last one.
When southern cal won 1/2 of the 2003 NC, it had been 25 years since their last one (1978, also split)
When LSU won 1/2 of the 2003 NC, it had been 45 years since their last one.
When Texas won the NC in 2005, it had been 36 years since their last one.
PS Yankees 62-77 78-96.
Lastly, the institution now known as Duke University was founded in Randolph County, NC, in 1838, as Brown’s Schoolhouse. By 1859, it had been renamed Trinity College. Trinity College moved to Durham and what is now East Campus in 1892.
In 1924, James B. Duke founded Duke University, named for his family. Trinity College became the undergraduate college for men. In 1930, the Woman’s College for undergraduate women opened on East Campus; Trinity College moved to the new West Campus. In 1972, Trinity College and the Woman’s College merged into the coeducational Trinity College of Arts & Sciences.
They did not win their first NCAA basketball championship until 1991.
