Totally agree on the blessing in disguise. Our athletic department will now be lean and mean instead of bloated. Hopefully the same can be said about the academics as well. It's kind of like after a forest fire, it grows back more lush than ever.
At least Barry knows who had the interlocking ND first. He keeps saying North Dakota. Seems the Irish are having brand recognition issues. Shouldn't have stolen our logo.
My moment of the broadcast has to be when they showed a close up of the shovel crew in the zamboni bay "and there are the Notre Dame Fighting Irish...."
Tried reading the SI article. Got pretty far into it and then they had to go and site VICE Sports..... everything from VICE is slanted to the extreme. They only do ally oop stories that examine only one point of view. I also got tired of all the hyphenated names.