Well, I can see wanting to keep the tradition. But don't abuse it. This is something that should happen once maybe twice during a players 4 seasons, not every year. The tradition is losing it's significace the more it is abused.
Sigh! Ya gotta love people lecturing on traditions they're obviously clueless about.
Shame on Rock and Leahy! What were they thinking using green as game jerseys?
Rockne was known as a master motivator now it turns out it he didn't know the traditional school colors. Should all the games Leahy Lads played in green be forfeited for misrepresenting the school? Should the Heismans be returned by the winners that wore the wrong school colors?
The two Winning Coaches in College Football History dressing their players in the wrong colors. Oh the abuse!
Good ND coaches and bad ND coaches have lost games with green jerseys.
News flash ND's lost more games in blue than green. Shouldn't we retired blue and gold (and the whites) as Davie and Willingham did so poorly with those colors?
The jerseys didn't miss a tackle or drop a pass. Davie and Willingham weren't good coaches regardless of the color scheme.
Another newsflash for revisionist twits, Willingham didn't dress the team in green due to "tradition". He went to the green jersey to have the players identify with the fans that had turned out for the '02 season in a "Sea of Green". Contrary to the whining it was not to create a motivational edge about a superior opponent.
The BC game in '02 was a "trap game" just like it was in '93. Both times ND had knocked off FSU and a BC game followed and both times ND lost.
I was at FSU in '02 when a throng of green clad Irish fans marched into Doak Campbell Stadium chanting "HERE COME THE IRISH!". That chant continued throughout the game. And was it heard resounding through the stadium innards as the Irish fans marched out victoriously to the same chant. Willingham commented on the boost the team got from the fans in Tallahassee and throughout the season and said had the team wear green in the NEXT home game to honor the fans.
Despite Willingham's mediocre coaching skills and poor recruiting skills I can't recall another ND coach having his team dressed to honor the fans.
As if I recall correctly ND sustained a significant injury in the BC game and a walkon QB named Dillingham ran the Irish offense and made a bonehead play. It appears we're supposed to believe that is was the karma of green jerseys that led to LoVecchio's transfer 6 months earlier, the preseason move of Clark to TE, and the injury to Holiday.
The tradition is losing it's significace the more it is abused.
That is a inane sentence!
Honestly, I don't care what jerseys are worn, so long as the guys play well in them.
