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Should Notre Dame’s Sophomores Be Redshirt Freshmen? The 2015 All-America Team

December 14, 2015 by Bayou Irish

Last Friday, Notre Dame's Sports Information Director Michael Bertsch posed the following question on Twitter upon the release of USA Today's Freshman All-America team for 2015: "Did Tyler Newsome and/or DeShone Kizer get considered for FR AA? Both freshman eligibility but listed academically (so So.)" It's a more-than-fair question, for it highlights a major problem with these postseason polls. Notre Dame lists its athletes by academic year. This seems to be held against them. Is this simply ...

Davidson College Ranks Ahead of The Irish: GSR or a Sick Rick Reilly Fantasy?

August 23, 2012 by Bayou Irish

I can't do anything about Lo Wood's Achilles, but I can do something about the Janus Bifrons of anti-journalism that is ColinReilly a/k/a RickCowherd. Now, I don't need to go after these dopes on their lazy opinions. Twibby did that already. I'm going to go after their underlying fiction as it pertains to "student-athletics" because I refuse to throw up my hands and acquiesce to the notion that college football is just one big academic fraud (Cowherd) or that Notre Dame needs to be taken down ...