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[QUOTE="007, post: 946690, member: 393"]
Thank you for keeping your reply "limited." I think I was able to follow some, but certainly not all of it. :cool:

The debate was not about the role that Catholicism plays within the University itself. IMO, any association between the success of the football program and ND's Catholic identity (and mission statement, which I have read), after the "glory years" of the 50s and 60s, is little more than hypocrisy. ND entrenchment in the American psyche has less to do with "the role that Catholicism plays with the confines of the University and pretty much everything it does" and far more to do with the succe$$ of the football program, the Gipper/50s mythology, and, most importantly currently, the [B]weekly national television exposure.[/B]

Your point about catholic high school feeder schools is well taken and a good one. But, I would wonder how many of those kids are practicing Catholics or whether or not the ND football staff really gives a rat's a$$.
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