A Notre Dame Football Blog
After our annual bye week gong show, it's time to get things back to normal and, hopefully, the Notre Dame schedule will as well. Considering that I had one hell of a time getting this audio together in a listenable form (please pray for my PC), those odds are good. Traditional technical issues aside, the rest of college football is keeping the straight up rollercoaster of 2020 alive and well. The Big XII continues to lobby their way out of the playoff, Mississippi State got the full Mike ...
So how do you recap an unplanned bye week? Well, you can read some podcast reviews, laugh at the ones demanding you stick to sports. Next, you immediately pivot to Fr. Jenkins showing up at Washington D.C. without a mask. An act of "leadership" that I'm sure went over real well for every Notre Dame football player sitting at home this weekend as well as students that aren't allowed to go see their friends in any type of situation that resembles normal. Finally, you top it off with the most ...
Fr. John Jenkins briefly address the Notre Dame community via a live YouTube stream.
A hearty hat-tip to our ACC brethren over at The Daily Tar Heel for the headline inspriation. I think of no better way to describe the current situation at Notre Dame, especially after Fr. John Jenkins addressed the Notre Dame community in a disappointing example of leadership. Feel free to watch the speech in its entirety below. It will take you less time to watch it than it would have to read his op-ed to bring students back to campus which I tore apart months ago. ...
See, it's funny because it's true. Credit: Angelica Ketcham & Joshua Cepeda
When I decided to devote time to writing about Notre Dame football, I never imaged that I'd write a post to cancel a season. I never imaged that, after a long layoff of no posting, my return would involve taking ND's president to task. I certainly didn't imagine that there would be two non-football posts as the bread to this shit sandwich. But HERE we are. Spending any time around social media this week has revealed some rather disturbing stories as to just how not-great the COVID response ...
I hope everyone enjoyed the brief respite of our pandemic reality in Friday's post. The fun's over. The headline above isn't clickbait. It's my 100% God's-honest belief. I'm not looking to play the anti-Clay Travis for traffic (if we actually cared about pageviews in this climate, we would've posted more). It's time to cease beating around the bush or having this site remain silent while we make fleeting quips on Twitter about the season's impending doom. Yes, I've called out Fr. Jenkins ...
Fr. John Jenkins address the class of 2018 image via YouTube
Yesterday, Father John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, penned an article through the New York Times opinion page. You might have recognized it under its original title "Science Alone Could Not Tell Us Whether to Reopen Notre Dame" (which didn't even survive twelve hours). The article houses not just Notre Dame's plan for trying to safely reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the logic, or more specifically, the cited philosophical musings around the morality of education during said ...