This weekend, nine Irish took to the podia, weight benches, and drill spaces to "[. . .] jump, and run across the floor, and perform many other feats, exhibiting [their] activity and condition." Each of them, and close to three hundred other ex-college players, are participating in this century's equivalent of the slave auction. Sure, they're there voluntarily, and they're chasing payouts in the millions-of-dollars. But they're still there to perform, or in the case of Teddy Bridgewater, not, ...
Lizzy Seeberg
Doing It the Right Way
By now, most Fighting Irish fans are familiar with a certain kind of article about Notre Dame football. You know, the kind that serve mostly as click-bait to drive up the pageviews, coming in two flavors: "irrelevant" and "Notre Dame has sold it's soul for football". They, and their target audiences, simply can't reconcile that any school, much less Notre Dame, can achieve success in football by "doing it the right way" off the field as well. ND's current success simply must be a product of some ...