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Why does Notre Dame get so much attention? The only legend from there is Joe Montana and a movie about a kid's dream to play one down for them... The team is never any good and its football tradition seems to be tainted with losing... One offensive lineman is not going to turn this program around.. No one cares about Notre Dame they stink

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they get more press than their accomplishments deserve

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I should just laugh at the lunacy of these comments, but I can't not reply

1) Notre Dame has the most consensus national championships
2) ND has produced more All-Americans than any other Football Bowl Subdivision school
3) Seven Fighting Irish football players have won the Heisman Trophy, tied for the most of any program
4) Notre Dame is one of only two Catholic universities that field a team in the Football Bowl Subdivision, the other being Boston College (and don't tell me that isn't relevant)
5) Notre Dame has the 2nd highest winning percentage in NCAA history (.738)
6) Ten former players are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, second only to USC(11).
7) Notre Dame has produced the largest number of players to go on to play in the National Football League of any program in the country. As of the 2007 NFL draft, 459 players have been drafted.
8) Notre Dame is second only to Nebraska in Academic All-Americans (43).
9) Notre Dame is represented by 47 players and coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame, the most of any university.
10) Since 1962, Notre Dame has graduated 98.74% of its football players in four years. As of 2006, only 13 football players in this time have left Notre Dame without finishing their degree requirements. Also of note is the 90% graduation rate of ND's African-American players (only Navy and Boston College have higher African American graduation rates)
11) Notre Dame has only had 12 losing seasons in 118 seasons of playing football
12) Notre Dame has participated in many of the most storied games in NCAA history, including:
-1935 Notre Dame vs. Ohio State ("Game of the Century")
-1946 Army vs. Notre Dame ("Game of the Century")
-1957 Notre Dame vs. Oklahoma (End of Oklahoma's NCAA record 47 game win streak)
-1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan St. ("Game of the Century")
-1988 Miami vs. Notre Dame ("Catholics vs. Convicts")
-1993 Florida St. vs. Notre Dame ("Game of the Century")
-2005 Southern Cal vs. Notre Dame ("Bush Push" game)
-1970 Cotton Bowl vs. Texas
-1973 Sugar Bowl vs. Alabama
-1979 Cotton Bowl vs. Houston (Chicken soup game)

The Irish football program has struggled over the last 10-15 years. But if you are really wondering why they get so much attention, read the list above again. Slowly. They are the most accomplished program in history, and they run a relatively clean program. That's why they are the most covered program by the media. Anyone over the age of 18 should be able to understand that.

Holy cow! I am so happy to see and hear this outpouring of love, all for the Scooter. In the 1980's, Scooter was my introduction to the New York Yankees. How many of us can make that statement? Thousands? Millions? Come to think of it, I stopped regularly watching baseball broadcasts right around the time Mr. Rizzuto called it quits- maybe there is a connection there. He was the captain of the greatest baseball dynasty in history. Enough said. The same people who say Rizzuto doesn't belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame are the ones who say Derek Jeter is overrated; thus proving their ignorance about darn near everything that's important in team sports. He was the glue. Most importantly, Scooter is a first-ballot inductee into heaven; without a word of opposition.

I see seam passes in Rex's future.