[NU Sports] Season (was: Hoeppner)

[John Labbe]

I think what you really hate is not Notre Dame but the fact that Northwestern has historically sucked in football.  It's unfortunate if your hatred for another school is so strong that you can't be proud of your own school despite the relative success of another.

If someone has a "superior attitude" it usually doesn't help if you have an inferior attitude.  That's why I say to expect victory and support our own team, win or lose.  What does it matter what happens to Notre Dame (unless we're playing them, of course)?

The notion of a media bias toward Notre Dame is silly.  For every person in the media who has a bias in favor of Notre Dame, you can find at least as many as have a bias against Notre Dame.  Just watch the coverage on any Saturday.  The reason that Notre Dame gets more coverage (good and bad) than we do is obvious---they're more successful and have a larger fan base.

John Labbe




On Wednesday, September 13, 2006, at 11:48AM, <s.fridley at comcast.net> wrote:

>> Oh, please, growing up in Chicago, going to NU twice, and having to endure  
>> the holier than anybody, superior attitude of the domers, the media fawning all 
>>  over them, and the joke that their jocks actually have to maintain academic  
>> standards give me the perfect right to hate ND.
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>I couldn't agree more.  Oh, I have no problem acknowledging that ND has sustained football success to a degree we can only dream of.  And it looks like they're genuinely back after a bad (for them) decade or so.  And they've done so while paying at least passing attention to academic standards - particularly compared to any of the other elite tier all-time programs.  All of that I stipulate.
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>But having grown up in the Chicago area with the insufferability of the domers I've known over four decades, I also have the perfect right to hate ND.
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