Notre Dame Football:10 Reasons the Irish Are Nothing More Than a Service Academy

Before I start, the title of this article might sound a little down playing of the current service academies in the United States. I have family in the current service academies so the role they play make this country great for all of us to write about sports and what have you in your lives.

Now on to the story at hand, the Fighting Irish has certainly lost ground in the college football world over the past two decades with some random bright seasons along the way.

In the forthcoming slide show, the positive and negatives of how the Fighting Irish handle things will be examined in great detail…

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Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/509152-notre-dame-football10-reasons-the-irish-are-nothing-more-than-a-service-academy

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