In his cute little “article” called “Behind the Numbers,” ESPN “journalist” Dan Revsine displays a lack of competence or lack of interest in his field of focus when he uses Notre Dame’s blow-out loss to Michigan last week as an example of poor defensive performance.

Quoth the latest villate idiot:

“38: On the other end of the defensive spectrum, Notre Dame gave up 47 points in its loss to Michigan. That’s the most the Irish have given up at home since falling to Purdue 51-19 in 1960. For some perspective, consider that during Notre Dame’s 1966 national championship run, the Irish gave up 38 points for the entire season. Only Michigan State, which scored 10 on them in the “Game of the Century” tie that’s being commemorated this weekend, managed to score in double figures.”

It’s one thing to maybe read the box score on Saturday night after covering dozens of other games in a very busy football Saturday and come away with an incorrect impression of what happened on the field in the Notre Dame/Michigan tilt. It’s quite another thing to write and publish a story on football one full week after the events he’s covering have taken place and when covering NCAA football is his job, in this age of the internet, sports radio, cable, and the TiVo, manage to completely disregard the facts in order to fill up his required word count and mislead his readers.

His point about 47 points being the largest Notre Dame has given up since 1960 is valid, but it was not due to lack of a defensive performance. And anyone who watched or reviewed the game could have mentioned the 5 turnovers by ND as the primary cause of that debacle.

Hey Dan, next time you need filler, how about writing something like, “Michigan played very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very good, but Notre Dame played very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, bad.” That’ll give you the word count you need without actually having to resort to any level of research on your subject matter.

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