Is Notre Dame Football Content with Mediocrity?
“,”body”:” At what point did it become acceptable to field a pretty good team in South Bend? Was it in the Davie era, Willingham’s maybe or possibly the current administration? Sure, there’s a sense of entitlement here; maybe more so than any other program in the country.\n That’s a natural reaction which inevitably comes with winning at least one National Championship in every decade since the 1910’s. So why is it different now? Arguably, the last time Notre Dame was in the NC spotlight was in 1993; they were actually awarded the championship title by the NCF and probably robbed otherwise. The following year was a disaster for Coach Holtz, losing five games for a 6-5-1 record.\n And the following two, both three-loss seasons. Lou Holtz has claimed to have left for many reasons one of which being he felt it was time to move on and to give someone else the opportunity he was given.\n But part of me believes another reason is because the team compiled 11 losses and a tie in those last th
