The NCAA’s latest press release with both “Notre Dame” and “violated” in the headline does not warrant much more than a shoulder shrug. That much might be more energy than it deserves. For once, it seems the serial offender may have been the recruit or the high school coach, but even discounting that, the primary Irish mistake was so trivial it should be regarded as just that, trivia.
A decade from now, when the world returns to bars and social gatherings, as one Notre Dame fan puffs out his chest with, “Who is the winningest starting quarterback in Irish history?