No bowl for Notre Dame?

Notre Dame: No Bowl?

So Notre Dame wins only 6 games, fires their coach and now they have decided that they don’t want to go to a bowl. Is this a good thing?

Absolutely not.

I blogged a few days ago about the foolish pride of Notre Dame, and to me this further proves it. If you are too prideful to take a bowl game, and bring the revenue it adds to your school, that is foolish.

Notre Dame acts like the spoiled brat that can’t get what he wants, so he looks at the world as sour grapes. But who really is the blame for that? It is the rich alumni that pump money and control in the school…which ironically is supposed to be a Catholic school, but I am starting to doubt that now.

To me, if Notre Dame refuses a bowl, that is a terrible shame and a disgrace to the players of the team. Some of those players have stuck with this university for four years, it is only fair to at least send them out with one more win, a bowl win. I don’t care who you play, at least PLAY one more game and end your season on a high note.

Second, you also have guys hoping to make the NFL draft, you owe it to those players to give them a game to get some exposure. Every college likes to brag about how many NFL players they put in the draft, well, cowboy up and do that Notre Dame!

Third, the REGULAR fans of Notre Dame deserve to see their team in a bowl, not as a bunch of quitters and whiney babies. While it might be true that I am not a ND fan, I do realize that there are many, many fans that want to pull for this team, and going to a bowl will at least do that.

Sometimes I think people in these colleges and universities are so full of themselves that there becomes a “holier than thou” attitude, which ironically only shows their ignorance. For some reason the Irish believe that they have some birthright to the BCS and National Championships every year, but have allowed money and pride knock them off the true path of Notre Dame. Until they really take time to look at themselves, I don’t see them competing for a National Title for YEARS. They can always soften up their schedule, throw in some high schools and get a record good enough to go to a BCS bowl…but then again, that was what they tried to do this year, and it backfired.

About 50 teams will not go to a bowl this year, and every one of them would GLADLY trade places with Notre Dame and go to a bowl. Bowl games are a celebration of success and a reward for players, fans and the schools for having a successful year. If Notre Dame can’t understand that, and at least take a bowl for the fans and players, then they truly are as misguided and spoiled as we think.