But Wait....Maybe I am Guilty of Using the Race Card

A must read for anyone interested in NCAA Football.

http://www.ndnation.com/columnists/see/hatchet.html

An excerpt for those short on time:

Notre Dame's football success is and always has been built on great coaches. While Tyrone Willingham is a good man who represented Notre Dame well, he wasn’t being paid 1.6 million dollars a year to be an ambassador for a mediocre squad. He was paid to build a champion. There are many, many men who can represent Notre Dame well. In fact, Notre Dame has won the American Football Coaches Association's Academic Achievement Award six times, including the year before Willingham arrived (it hasn't won it since.) Integrity is not a novel concept, it is expected at Notre Dame, but that is just a portion of the job description. Notre Dame has traditionally graduated players and put them in the NFL. At the beginning of the season Notre Dame had both more NFL players than any other school and the highest percentage (93%) of NFL players with degrees. Integrity is not new at Notre Dame, losing is.

As Father Hesburgh said in responding to the same criticisms fifty years ago, "Some things never change at ND, one is ND's commitment to excellence. The other is criticism for having the "arrogance" to strive for it."