Counting Down the Irish: Overrated? Underrated? Just right?

The intent is to react to the final “Counting Down the Irish” rankings, perhaps even to overreact, to criticize the other Notre Dame beat writers for the mistakes they made in their ballots, laugh at their collective idiocy.

Conjuring up my rashest thoughts, I cannot get to that level of dismissal because, well, they got the annual exercise right, more or less.

One piece of logic also holds the condescending attitude in check: In order to claim any player was over- or underrated, another player has to move accordingly. Sure, perhaps fifth-year receiver Chris Finke should be ranked higher than No. 9. He had 49 catches for 571 yards and two touchdowns last year. Building on that would lead to…