I think it's safe to say that Rick Reilly is fed up with Notre Dame.....

[Salt City Sooner]

I hear what the Domers are saying. They're saying, "Notre Dame doesn't have to be in a conference. Notre Dame is unlike any other football power. Notre Dame is a national brand."

Sure, and girls are still wearing leg warmers.

Notre Dame is not a national brand any more than USC, Alabama or Stanford. A national brand? What would its slogan be, "Dominating Navy just about every year"? What kind of national brand loses to freaking Tulsa (2010)?

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8264769/notre-dame-irish-relegated-insignificance

[Flagstaffsooner]

Here's the thing...

Notre Dame no longer gets to be the only school in the country with an inexplicable seat at the BCS decisions-making table.

[stoopified]

ould not have said it better myself, Rick.The Crying Irish should be treated like any other team in CFB. I cannot fathom why they get a seat at the BCS table and WTF is so great about ND that they should get paid 1.3 million dollars when they DON't go to abowl game.

[85sooners]

Lol

[Mazeppa]

All good points!