<p>Dartmouth people, apologies for hijacking the thread.</p>
<p>The reason I didn’t want to start a start a debate is that most Notre Dame supporters, more so than other student/parent/alumni groups on CC, seem incapable of discussing their school objectively. My basic point is that there are some people within as well as without the Notre Dame Family who take a more skeptical view of the football program. And yes, SXSW123, my view too is based on intimate experience. And please don’t ignore my point–I tried to make it in my first sentence–that things are different still at other institutions. (See, for example, Michigan’s handling of Brandon Gibbons. While it’s true that some of Michigan’s seeming tardiness in dealing with the case was due to operating within a since-changed policy framework, it’s also obvious that Michigan had been trying to shield the football program from scandal.)</p>
<p>collegealum314, that post on the Bleacher Report content farm made my head hurt. The author doesn’t even know that the SAT was recentered in 1995. Some readers, presumably older ND alumni, rightfully take him to task in the comments.</p>