The Too Big to Fail Doctrine

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Willingham didn’t try to recruit his last several years at ND, which is what hurt last year and is hurting some this year.

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<p>Please - recruiting under Willingham was still better than at schools like Northwestern (which crushed Syracuse this season), Cincinnati, Navy, etc.</p>

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ND refuses to sacrifice its academic integrity, and admit athletes that have academic credentials well below the credentials of the general student-body population.

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<p>While ND’s recruiting standards are higher than say, SEC schools, it’s not that much higher than a school like Michigan.</p>

<p>The whole ND FB academics is mostly a myth (just like Duke BB - where Duke players had an average SAT score in the mid-900s in the 1990s).</p>