Mark May was not some unbiased critic who called it right... he was a guy who had us going 0-5 out the gate from day one of Weis, then gave zero credit for anything when he was wrong two years running... called us unworthy of BCS bids without saying who should be there in our place... demolished us week in and week out even in ten win years... I'll never forget when ESPN did a blind study of Wisky and ND (only two teams in any real consideration for a BCS spot) in 06 and compared after May went on a tanget of how unworthy ND is of anything,... it was CLEAR team 'A' was the better choice... he agreed... then when shown that team 'A' was Notre Dame he just boiled and said nothing... not one word. The guy picks us to win X amount of games every year and then picks us to lose every single game saturday to saturday...
honestly after a year or so it didn't even bother me... but it does strike me to hear ND fans say he was just a guy who got it right, like we just can't take a critic... dude was not a critic, he was a week in week out hater of a top 25 program.
I don't know if he hated Weis or is he was just told to hate on ND to get people watching... but he was often wrong in cartoonish style without back tracking ever... and when he was right, which he was here and there also, he never let off... he was a hater... plain and simple. Since the moment Weis left he seems to have either relented or simply been told by the powers that be to find another angle.
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