Some of you old timers have a short selective memory or are just plain uninformed about the past. The administration de-emphazised football towards the end, and following the retirement of Leahy. ND president, John Cavanaugh, and his athletic right hand man, Father Hesburgh, immediately cut the number of football schollies. That brought some pretty lean football years and an unfair negative perception of Terry Brennan as HC. The idea was to showcase ND as an academic institution and not a football factory. Some of you act like this academic stuff is a new phenomenon. I wouldn't expect the young people to know this because little do they care about the past. But, the old timers should be well aware of ND football history. Stop the whining. It is what it is. Talk to former players and ask them what role academics should play with the football program.
Toby you realize leahy coached in the 50's and then retired. So that would be a different set of old guys in wheel chairs that you are pushing over a cliff. The first Notre Dame coach I am aware of as a child was Parsegian, i was in grade school when Notre Dame played Alabama. I heard from different posters there was a time that the Notre Dame Admin de-emphasized athletics but I was not aware other wise. I do not see any one acting like this is new earth shattering event at Notre Dame. I always thought Notre Dame was a terrific academic org. We knew that growing up as a kid going to Catholic school. Notre Dame was a school to aspire to.