It’s Never Too Late for Irish-Bashing

Top 10 reasons why not to schedule your first game of the year with BCS implications (Notre Dame vs. Nebraska Cornhuskers):

10. Your job.

9. Your coach’s job.

8. Your mother; she’ll ask you why you did that to those poor boys.

7. Team morale; the players will live with the memory for the season.

6. Spotting the other team two games just isn’t sporting.

5. Any other team would have been glad to take the TV money and the thrashing (a la Ball State) as a first-game warmup.

4. The embarrassment on national television.

3. It wasn’t required by NBC.

2. Coming from an institution of “higher education,” the scheduling shows a lack of intelligence.

1. My mother; she wanted to know why I was crying.

Bob Arranaga

Los Angeles