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Message: [QUOTE="Scooch, post: 316336, member: 628"] But the atmosphere of South Bend hasn't changed. Kids go visit that place and are blown away. You think that a kid who's profile "fits" who ND recruits is going to see Touchdown Jesus, watch 'Rudy', see that green sea of 80K... and decide to go to BC, or Wake Forest, or Syracuse, or Baylor, or Rutgers, or whatever? It's like that column Mandel penned the other day about the Kings, Barons, etc. ND is a King not because they win national titles, but because they have a lunatic fanbase. Sure not being in the top 10 frays that around the margins, but the core is strong as hell. It just is. Look at ND's ratings whenever they're remotely competitive nationally, they soar. That's not the 70s or 80s, that's 2006. Are they slipping? Sure, a little. But the gap between them and the next tier is enormous. All I can tell you is that they are valuable, very very valuable. Not sure what else to say. [/QUOTE]