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Whats next for Notre Dame

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What are Notre Dames Academic requirements that make them different from other schools that make it so much harder to recruit. Is it SAT scores, ACT scores, GPA, Class rank, that need to be higher then most or is this academic standard just kind of a made up thing that the Media always attribute to Notre Dame because they are Notre Dame. Any thoughts would be great.


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That's a truly original list of possible candidates for the ND job: doesn't look like the one from ESPN at all...

Seriously, though, the intriguing one is Weis, who will definitely be the HC somewhere next season (Browns?). I didn't know he was an Irish grad (until I read it on ESPN then here), but the job really isn't a big step up for most of the others--except Hawkins, but I just don't see that happening.
 
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themongoose32 said:
What are Notre Dames Academic requirements that make them different from other schools that make it so much harder to recruit. Is it SAT scores, ACT scores, GPA, Class rank, that need to be higher then most or is this academic standard just kind of a made up thing that the Media always attribute to Notre Dame because they are Notre Dame. Any thoughts would be great.


The Mongoose
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I think its the five additional years of missionary work post graduation that throws some recruits for a loop.
 
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What are Notre Dames Academic requirements that make them different from other schools that make it so much harder to recruit. Is it SAT scores, ACT scores, GPA, Class rank, that need to be higher then most or is this academic standard just kind of a made up thing that the Media always attribute to Notre Dame because they are Notre Dame.
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The requirements that make them different don't exist. There are none. There never have been. They are the product of the ND mafia's PR machine and have been bought hook line and sinker by uncritical reporters, self-congratulating alumni and other Irish hangers-on for years.

The guy that runs the ND equivalent of Buckeye Planet ran the numbers last year just to probe the validity of this widely accepted falsehood. His goal was to prove that it was bad administration and coaching, not 'high academic standards' that were the root of ND's demise as a football power. So he compared the SAT scores of ND recruits against those of the recruits of other perennial national powers like Oklahoma, scUM, tOSU etc. Guess what? The ND football-brainiacs scored lower than Oklahoma! They were middling among traditional Top Ten teams.

So now the mighty have fallen ...and one of their own has proved that the emperor has no clothes. If the Domers read the bibles they thump around a little more often, they'd remember the warning that "Pride cometh before a fall". In their case, it did. The fall has been a steep and painful one, but it was long overdue. And it will be a while before they get up off the floor.
 
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Woody - Then why would Bob Davie come out and say that ND can only go after around 33 of the top 100 players in the country?
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First off, Chief, nobody said ND would take any kid in America. No major college can. Not tOSU, not scUM, not USCum, not even scUM South, 'though they come pretty close (you have to be in jail for them to think twice about giving you a free ride).

I just reported that among major universities that regularly compete in the top ten nationally, ND was no more rigorous than any other school -- in fact, it is less rigorous than many. It's a fact ...and it runs contrary to the myth that self-congratulating ND-lovers have been spreading for years. ND is not the catholic Harvard of Indiana. Deal with it.

If you come to this board frequently, you know that we regularly go ballistic when one of our prize recruits gets his offer yanked because of grades or test scores. Right now we're sitting on a gem down in Dayton who may be the best running back in America, and we can't make him an offer. ScUM State will, others certainly will as well, but tOSU can't.

Bob Davie is a Jackie Sherrill-trained screw-up, who you guys fired, who would say anything to explain away his own failures. For guys like Davie, it's never their fault, it's always someone else's. At least Willingham had the cojones to admit it was his failure, no one else's. For ND, that's real progress.
 
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The requirements that make them different don't exist. There are none. There never have been. They are the product of the ND mafia's PR machine and have been bought hook line and sinker by uncritical reporters, self-congratulating alumni and other Irish hangers-on for years.
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Your better tell that to Herbstreit. He said the academics requirements of recruits at ND made it harder for ND to recruit. :)
 
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