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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 1595719, member: 1145"]
Minus that ESPN part, that was exactly the argument ND fans made against playing in bowls. And the vast, vast, vast majority were opposed to playing in bowls. They were so opposed to bowls, that a group formed to demand the head of Ara Parseghian should be speak publicly for ND to play in bowls. And that within 2 years of the '66 National Championship.

I got to see and hear it up close because of the ND grad (about 1938 or so) who ran my town's youth sports. He swore that ND football fans would never accept plating in bowls. By the time ND beat Texas in its 2nd Cotton, he no longer made such claims. By the time ND upset Bama in the Sugar to win another National Title, he acted as if he always had loved the idea of ND playing in bowls.

The last I heard of him was in the late 1980s. It was clear that ND basketball had fallen precipitously, and many were saying that ND must join either the BT or the BE to save its basketball from utter irrelevance. Mr. D was reported to me as swearing that ND would never join any league for basketball, because that was the precedent that would render absurd ND football claims to remain utter independent.
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