[Stardust]

I do not like Notre Dame, and my hatred for them started with Kelly Tripucka and Basketball, but the love affair with ND and the media is legitimate for football. I hate them, but I respect what their football program does. To be without a conference and play a schedule like they do is a tremendous testament to their program. And for that, I do think they get rewarded. Their schedule is not the best every year, but over the course of years, they have to have the best schedule strength of any team in football over the last 25 years. To play teams like Michigan, Michigan St. USC every year is quite an accomplishment in itself. Now, with that being said, those teams have not always been at the top of the football scene, but those are programs that will forever be in the hunt of their conference. For whatever reason though, the ability to bring every blue chipper in is no longer happening for the Golden Domers, It is similar to UK between the Pitino and Calipari years, when UK was not as cool anymore. It is going to take a Marquee name to coach there to get them back prominence again, just as it took UK. Without Calipari's name, UK would still be in the same category as they were with Tubby, good but not great.

Had Urban Meyer showed up in South Bend, we would have to contend with Notre Dame playing in a BCS championship game every year. It would be "cool" to play for ND with Urban Meyer, and he would be doing what Cal is doing, by getting the top recruiting class year over year.