There was no larger faculty football-related amusement on Sunday than the grumbling and doomsaying that resulted from Notre Dame’s decision to take its shamrock and stay home from a bowl sport after getting shut out of the School Soccer Playoff.
There was loads of thinly veiled self-interest at work as varied individuals who profit from the bowl system gasped in horror as the most important faculty soccer model of all of them informed them to take a hike after the playoff choice committee determined {that a} head-to-head sport performed in August means extra this week than it did final week.
