An unpleasant trip down memory lane

by BPH, San Diego, Friday, April 24, 2009, 23:48 (6242 days ago)

Sports Illustrated story by Tim Layden from 2000: "How strong academic requirements, a suicidal schedule and an unproven coach have taken the fight out of Notre Dame"

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1019088/1/index.htm

What's the board consensus of the recruiting issue? How different, if at all, are the admissions standards now compared to then? How much is it the relative salesmanship of Davie versus Weis? I read a story like this and it makes me all the more amazed by the recruiting job that Weis did by bringing in the nation's No. 1 class during a 3-9 season. Simply mind-boggling.