All the "personality" stuff is irrelevant to me and a waste of my energy. What IS important to me is Notre Dame football, this year and in the future.
Ohio State and Michigan are two of, if not the top two of, our recruiting obstacles. Regardless of what one thinks of either of their coaches, the programs hinder us. They will hinder us less if they begin to lose games as we ascend. The coaches have a lot to do with their winning games, but the likability or dislikability of their personalities [to our emotional minds] does not directly relate to this. What we need is simply for them to lose football games.
But this day only one of them CAN lose, so who serves NDs purposes more? I believe that a Michigan win clearly serves our purposes better. It gets rid of an undefeated OSU in the nation's, and more importantly certain recruits', eyes, and makes "superior" to them a team whom we defeated. We increase "shine" all over.
As to Meyer: I couldn't care less about the personality quirks or deficiencies. Urban Meyer is for us a dangerous man --- THAT's what's significant. He's GOOD at what he does, and he's in our backyard and coming to dinner. He, in my opinion, is FAR more dangerous to us than Coach Hoke, even though he's trouble too. Calling Meyer names may be good therapy for some [means nothing to my psyche]; the reality of his threat to ND success is undented by name-calling or screaming at the computer, but finding ways to diminish his effectiveness would actually be useful.
I don't know how to do that except for one small thing: whenever we get a public chance, we should take the high road in our commentary. If the enemy is low-class, then the way to win the PR battle is not to join him in the mud, but to stand on the paving and say: Notre Dame believes in these things and in accomplishing these goals of excellence these ways. Cleverly chosen for contrast, such undebatable presentations will eventually create a distance-of-rightness between us and an already questionable win-at-any-cost OSU programmatic attitude.
