Posting Up a Storm

As we all know, the mainstream media is biased against Notre Dame. Why else do you think we have to play on NBC when every other team gets to play on ABC, ESPN, or some awesome regional network? Instead we are stuck with the guy who announces the Triple Crown. Our football players are not horses, Tom Hammond (except for our fullback, who is a horse. The Genius saved him from the glue factory, and he was the reason our rushing offense did not finish last in the nation last year).

The latest round of bias is ESPN’s ranking of our current recruiting class. These fellows at “Scouts, Inc.” have Notre Dame ranked ninth in the country. Ninth! That’s not even in the top two, which is where we should be. Apparently 10 “ESPN Top 150” prospects wasn’t good enough for ESPN, since they ranked Alabama six spots higher than us with three few “ESPN Top 150” prospects. The bias is staring me right in the face! Georgia, USC, Ohio State, and Oklahoma are all ranked above us yet have few “quality” prospects. It just doesn’t add up!

Now, I am already a little suspicious of this ESPN Top 150 list to begin with, since all of our incoming freshmen should be ranked in the top 30. I mean, we’ve got Mike Golic Jr. coming in this fall. His dad works for ESPN. How could they not rank him higher than a 79? It just goes to show you how far the bias goes when ESPN is willing to purposefully misrank one of its own employee’s kids just to smear our school.

Now, all objective recruiting ranking sites have Notre Dame listed much higher than ninth. Rivals.com has us at number two behind Alabama, but this ranking is also a bit suspect. We have the highest star average in the country. Why shouldn’t we be number one? I’m not even going to go over the rest of the sites because my blood pressure is pretty high already. I’ll just let our performance this season speak for itself when we got 24-0 (we are playing the equivalent of a 1-A and 1-AA schedule combined) and top it off with a spot in the BCS Title Game at the Orange Bowl. You heard it here first.