Practice does not make Perfect!
Perfect Practice makes Perfect!
10 will work as long as we make them count. Plus Education is the most important thing and that is what Notre Dame is all about!
The stated reason for Notre Dame not using their entire allotment of practices also included the coaches being away on recruiting and the early bowl date. I'm certain that the team would have held all 15 practices if the coaches weren't going to be out on the road. Unfortunately, 6-6 seasons make your recruits vulnerable to poaching and you need to be out there reassuring them that the program is going in the right direction. If we were in a respectable bowl like the Gator Bowl or a BCS Game, the coaches wouldn't have to do this. Yet, the team's play on the field and the coaching were not enough to "speak for themselves" and so Charlie & Co. have to hit the recruiting trail hard.
I'm sick of hearing education is first. There is no reason that the players can't play football and be well educated. If this were a business (which it is in reality) than saying that it's all about school would be like a CEO saying "Yeah, our accounting department is terrible. They cost us millions last year but overall they show up to work on time, they care about the company....yada yada yada." That's pretty much what you're saying about the football team: Their first priority is to the university as students (accountants are good employees) and their second priority is to the football team (actually doing correct accounting is secondary). Piss poor logic in both cases.
I don't give a shit whether or not the team's aggregate GPA is 3.0 or 2.0. As long as they are passing their classes and making an effort than I'm happy. But if ND has decided that boasting about our football's team GPA is more important than the team's W-L than I'd like to be informed so I can stop watching crappy ND games every weekend and start watching high level Big 12 or SEC games.
And, no, that isn't implying that I would renounce Notre Dame; they will always be my favorite team but I'd rather enjoy three hours of college football on Saturday than watch ND lose to 2-8 teams.
