… Those that love Notre Dame football and those that hate it.  There is no in-between and I can’t fathom how there are any of the former (I guess that indicates which type of fan I am).  A recent columnist wrote that “Regardless of whether you love or hate Notre Dame, you have to acknowledge that college football is better when they are winning.”  I guess we know which side that columnist is on as I whole-heartedly disagree.  It’s much, much better when Notre Dame is losing.  So many better teams “lose out” whenever Notre Dame has a winning season.  They have been terrible for the past several years yet they are “good” enough to steal bowl games, sometimes BCS games, from more deserving teams because there are special clauses exempting Notre Dame from the normal rules.  In college football, every other team follows the exact same rules as every other team with one exception: Notre Dame.  And that’s just wrong.