This is a continuation from where we left the stories of "Notre Dame Pays Money to Underwear Designer for Football Uniforms," on September 13, 2014 and "Notre Dame Gold Belongs on the Dome. Leave it," on August 21, 2014 and "What Hath Kelly and Jenkins Wrought at Notre Dame?," on August 30, 2014. (There is a gap of one week in these previously posted articles. Notre Dame had a "bye" that week, so we did too.)
So, so far we have covered Notre Dame's embarassing achievements in the field of academically challenged students who are there for the purpose of playing football.
And we have covered the new uniforms which appear to be based on a high school design. (And not a very good design, at that.) The designer of the new uniforms is the underware manufacturer, Under Armour, as previously reported. They also manufacture for the Baltimore Ravens and Under Arm issued a statement reflecting its confidence that the Ravens would recover from the Ray Rice episode.
It would have been meaningful if it had ever issued a statement that the woman hit unconscious would recover as well. The Mr. Ray Rice episode was addressed in an article here on September 9, 2014, "Bad Faith, NFL's Rice on Display After New Video."
Anyway, as I was saying about the changes wrought by Mr. Kelly to Notre Dame football during the past year or two of the tenure of university president John Jenkins. In addition to the students potentially flunking fiasco, and the uniforms lifted from a high school locker room, there is for the first time at the University of Notre Dame:
Artificial turf (some people call it "Kelly grass") on the football field at Notre Dame Stadium.
That brings the total to three (3) changes made by Mr. Kelly. Mr. Kelly says these changes -- and more changes which we will take a look at before we are through -- are desirable.
None of these changes were desirable under Rockne, or Leahy, or Parseghian, or Holtz, or any other head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. It seems that no-one has asked how much if anything these changes have cost the Notre Dame students or, perhaps more accurately, their parents who pay the tuition to go there.
And no-one has apparently even asked where all of that money is going.
Well, somebody should definitely ask about the future graduation rate of Notre Dame football players. (This is something no-one ever dreamed of asking under Rockne, or Leahy, or Parseghian, or Holtz, or any other head football coach at the University of Notre Dame.)
"Keep a clear eye."
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