As mentioned in a comment earlier this week, I spent some time with a USC/Pac-10 fan the other day, and it was somewhat brutal.  Not really brutal because hanging with USC/Pac-10 fans is brutal, but because this particular fan just didn’t know anything.  Yet, he made strong arguments that were pro-USC/Pac-10 and anti-ND, with no data.

Ignorance is bliss for some people, but it’s painful for us Irish Fans.  Mostly because we spend half our time defending our school/program to people that have no idea what the facts are, and then ignore them when you provide them.  It’s kinda like when you were in 7th grade and you questioned something a teacher said (and you were right) and the teacher pulled the ‘I’m the teacher, so I have to be right’ thing on you.  What do you do with that? 

Things like knowing a teams SOS (or what it means), knowing roster depth and how old/young certain players/positions are, who a team played and if/where they were ranked should be standard fare when you’re trashing a program.  But no, we fight stuff like “ND only plays service academies, who are terrible” and “ND’s TV contract makes it easier for them to recruit, but they’ve been bad for 10 years anyway”.  

Here’s a reco to all the haters:  Read First, Hate Later.

 

• This author is not ignorant about beating a metaphor to death like a dead horse repeatedly and unceasingly
• LSU players STILL don’t know the rules
• Either the watch list folks don’t know about our o-line woes last year, or they just really like Jimmy
• Randy Shannon apparently knows about sharing.  I bet he grew up with brothers and sisters
• BGS will teach you all about the sack, in case you didn’t watch last year
• And finally, ND don’t know Victoria’s Secret (HT: EDSBS)

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