Another reason to root against Notre Dame

Lex jr. is off on a 6th grade field trip today to tour the campus of the once great Notre Dame University. My advice to him was, unless you can learn to knock a guy off of a dirt bike going 50 mph at 60 yards with a football, think state colleges son. I even went so far as to ask one of the mom chaperone’s to actually talk the school and the campus down. As in, “What a dump. Who’d want to go to school at this place? It’s not nearly as nice as the state schools or even the junior college right there in Ft. Wayne.”

Now I know how my dad must have felt when, as a young Midwestern Catholic boy enamored with what were great Notre Dame football teams (like all Midwestern Catholic boys I suppose), I expressed an interest in going to Notre Dame. He laughed and said, “You’d better to get work then.”

I know of what I write. Last year as Lex jr.’s math project we compared the cost of attending Notre Dame to state school tuition. The cost comparison section ended with a cartoon of dad falling backward off his chair in disbelief when the Notre Dame tuition, room and board and book cost was displayed. Then we looked at the number of $5 car washes, $20 lawn mowing and $15 driveway shoveling jobs it would take to cover the cost of each. That section ended with a cartoon of Lex jr. falling backward off of his chair in disbelief when the total number of jobs required revealed that even if he worked 24-7, Lex jr. wouldn’t be able to cover the 4 year cost of a Notre Dame education.

And all of this happening in the dingy light of the Dear Leader as he is set to speak at Neutered Dame’s commencement on Sunday. Since the Dear Dope found Wanda Sykes’ shtick on Rush Limbaugh dying of kidney failure so hilarious, maybe he can get her to do a few dead baby jokes by way of an introduction. That’ll bring the house down.

It is a sad day when one self righteous creep – that would be Notre Dame President Fr. Jenkins not the Dear Dope – can single handedly ruin the University’s brand, cost it millions of dollars and the loss of support from thousands of fans. This is hard to write, but I hope the Fighting Irish don’t win another football game (OK except for Michigan and maybe USC) until Jenkins is unceremoniously fired for cause. Now I know how it must have felt for life long Atlanta Braves fans to have to tolerate traitor beeotch Jane Fonda sitting among them for so many years and ruining that brand.