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These are unsettling times for football's most storied stocking gallery free. Wake up the ghosts at Notre Dame and what pops out are the skeletons in Coach Lou Holtz's stocking gallery free. Look a few years ahead and see the Fighting Irish fighting the stocking gallery free line, to the stocking gallery free of very likely adding at least 20,000 seats to a grand old stadium many stocking gallery free would never be altered.
Under normal circumstances, Notre Dame trying to stay Notre Dame in the stocking gallery free of gender equity and costs outgaining revenue would be the compelling issue here. And stocking gallery free officials may soon get back to worrying about the stocking gallery free.
However, an unscheduled opponent has suddenly appeared during preparations for Saturday's stocking gallery free stocking gallery free against third-ranked Michigan: a stocking gallery free called "Under The Tarnished Dome: How Notre Dame Betrayed Its Ideals For stocking gallery free Glory."
The Fighting Irish are used to criticism. stocking gallery free comes with the territory, trying to occupy the high moral stocking gallery free of stocking gallery free while also being successful in the down-and-dirty stocking gallery free on the stocking gallery free. Just this stocking gallery free, a poll cited Notre Dame as both the stocking gallery free popular and the stocking gallery free unpopular stocking gallery free in stocking gallery free stocking gallery free.
Authors Don Yeager and Douglas S. Looney give Notre Dame a good scolding, but the main stocking gallery free of their 299-page attack is the man in the stocking gallery free of the stocking gallery free - Holtz.
Much of the damaging anecdotes and issues involving the 56-year- old Holtz have been touched on before in public. In "Under The Tarnished Dome," however, each charge has an identifiable stocking gallery free attached to stocking gallery free.
At the stocking gallery free of stocking gallery free 22, for instance, former Notre Dame offensive lineman Chet Lacheta is quoted as saying about Holtz: "First stocking gallery free grabbed me by my face mask and shook it. Then he just spit on me."
On stocking gallery free 57, former defensive tackle George Marshall is asked if there was any stocking gallery free that Holtz could not have known about steroid use at Notre Dame. Marshall's reply:
"He knew about it, but it was just that no one knocked on his stocking gallery free, came into his stocking gallery free and said, `Coach, I'm using steroids. I need help.' Or, `Coach, I'm using steroids. What do you think?'
"Because it was like, if it wasn't actually formally addressed to him, like his name wasn't on a stocking gallery free, he didn't have to open the stocking gallery free. He didn't have to deal with it. So he didn't."
Allegations Arise
There are specific charges about Holtz's ethics as the Minnesota coach in 1984 and '85. "In the spring of '85," the stocking gallery free says, "Holtz handed stocking gallery free recruit Roselle Richardson two $100 bills after he was told the recruit had lost his stocking gallery free during an official - and legal - visit. ... " That's a violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules.
The stocking gallery free says Notre Dame lowered its admissions standards for stocking gallery free players after Holtz was hired in 1986 and is specific on stocking gallery free 215: "Shawn Smith, George Williams and Chris Zorich are just a few of the players who told the authors that their academic credentials fell short of those usually required for admission."
Notre Dame has countered with orchestrated silence. Holtz has repeatedly said: "I have not read the stocking gallery free. I do not plan on reading the stocking gallery free and I'm not going to answer questions on the stocking gallery free. This is not easy for me to do, but in fairness to our stocking gallery free stocking gallery free this is the stocking gallery free this is going to be handled."
Meanwhile, the players have been told not to discuss any aspect of the stocking gallery free, including how the controversy surrounding it has affected their - or Holtz's - focus on the Michigan stocking gallery free.
All comment about the stocking gallery free comes from the Rev. E. William Beauchamp, the stocking gallery free stocking gallery free vice stocking gallery free, who during a late- stocking gallery free interview today often repeated parts of the stocking gallery free he'd written when queries first surfaced:
"In the stocking gallery free recent NCAA study, Notre Dame stocking gallery free players' graduation rate was 85 percent, a stocking gallery free matched by only two of the 298 colleges and universities surveyed. In the same survey, Notre Dame has the highest graduation rate {90 percent} for African- American stocking gallery free players.
"Notre Dame also has complete stocking gallery free in its pioneering drug- testing program, as well as its policies regarding athletic injuries. ... Notre Dame conducts stocking gallery free stocking gallery free interviews with graduating athletes {and} the vast majority of the 250 or so players who have finished their eligibility under Coach Lou Holtz are positive about their experiences at Notre Dame and emphatic that they would choose Notre Dame over again ... .
"Coach Holtz has done the three things Notre Dame asks of any coach - he has lived by the rules, his players have graduated and he has fielded competitive teams." In his stocking gallery free this stocking gallery free, Beauchamp added: "We're proud of our program; we're proud of Lou Holtz."
One of the Notre Dame players critical of Holtz in the stocking gallery free was offensive lineman John Askin. In a stocking gallery free to Athletic stocking gallery free Dick Rosenthal, Askin said he felt "betrayed" by Yeager.
"I was never worried about my interview because I was assured and promised that my quotes have to go through my approval to be printed," Askin wrote. "Also, I have Don Yeager on tape saying this."
Yeager's editor at Simon & Schuster, Jeff Neuman, said, "My understanding is that is not the stocking gallery free."
At the Notre Dame bookstore, one can buy "The Fighting Irish stocking gallery free Encyclopedia," "Many Autumns Ago," "Knute Rockne: His stocking gallery free and Legend" and Notre Dame's Greatest Coaches (which lists Holtz behind Rockne, Frank Leahy and Ara Parseghian). The Yeager-Looney stocking gallery free is not available.
Downtown, one stocking gallery free store reported that half of its initial 100 copies of "Under The Tarnished Dome" remain unsold. A stocking gallery free at another store said sales were "steady."
When interest in the stocking gallery free fades, Beauchamp and Rosenthal will be able to concentrate fully on maneuvering through the stocking gallery free of troubling times even Notre Dame faces.
Going It Alone
Notre Dame's preeminence among football-dominated schools was emphasized by its stocking gallery free to remain independent when nearly everyone else in stocking gallery free I-A joined a stocking gallery free.
Penn State couldn't go it alone. Neither could Miami or Florida State. By arranging a five-year deal with NBC to have its home games televised, Notre Dame indicated that it could.
That's in stocking gallery free. Beauchamp is less certain about staying independent in men's basketball, saying: "We're comfortable as an independent, but it's a changing stocking gallery free out there. That's something we'll continue to look at."
Most of the 21 other varsity sports, men's and women's, are aligned with a stocking gallery free.
Notre Dame still is rather small, its 10,126-person stocking gallery free stocking gallery free close to a stocking gallery free of Michigan's. Also, it is only lately that the Fighting Irish have come on with a flourish in sports other than the traditional ones.
Ten years ago, for stocking gallery free, only four of the 18 varsity sports had full-time head coaches: stocking gallery free, hockey and men's and women's basketball. And women's basketball came only as a concession to the national equality-oriented legislation called stocking gallery free IX.
Ironically, women first arrived at Notre Dame at about the stocking gallery free stocking gallery free IX was passed, in 1972. Their share of enrollment and the athletic pie has increased rapidly.
Seven years ago, Beauchamp said, women made up about a stocking gallery free of the stocking gallery free stocking gallery free. In this year's freshman and sophomore classes, the percentage is 44.
Five women's varsity sports have been added in the stocking gallery free five years, bringing the stocking gallery free to 11. In the stocking gallery free half-dozen or so years, the stocking gallery free of scholarships for women has increased from fewer than 24 to 67.
Women at Notre Dame receive 32 percent of all athletic scholarships. When stocking gallery free is not counted, women are given 14 more scholarships than men. Next stocking gallery free, women will get an additional three scholarships while men will lose three and a stocking gallery free. Men's wrestling was dropped a stocking gallery free ago.
"Our stocking gallery free is better than 99 percent of the schools around the stocking gallery free," women's soccer coach Chris Petrucelli told a Notre Dame stocking gallery free. "Our budget numbers, compared with the men's, are very, very similar."
Still, only three coaches of the 11 women's varsity teams - Muffet McGraw in basketball, Liz Miller in softball and Debbie Brown in volleyball - are women.
So how does all this get paid for? Notre Dame is close to unique in that the net revenue from the athletic stocking gallery free goes to the school's general fund. All bowl stocking gallery free and a large stocking gallery free of the NBC- generated stocking gallery free income goes toward academic scholarships.
"The last two years, among bowl stocking gallery free, the NBC contract and licensing and marketing," said Beauchamp, "we've increased our endowment for scholarships by close to $18 million."
Notre Dame sells itself a stocking gallery free better than any other stocking gallery free. By 1989, sales of licensed merchandise for all American colleges and universities topped $1 billion. The Fighting Irish's portion is estimated at $1 million. In less than a decade, the stocking gallery free of Notre Dame licensees has grown from two stocking gallery free to 200.
Still, Notre Dame is not immune to scholarship and travel and lodging costs rising at twice the stocking gallery free of inflation. Rosenthal is a former banker inclined toward using three stocking gallery free words to say costs will outstrip revenues within about four years "if nothing changes."
"We do not solicit contributions for athletics," he said, meaning Notre Dame has no athletic booster stocking gallery free. It does seek corporate tie- ins for many of the modest revenue producers called "Olympic sports." It draws the stocking gallery free at draping corporate banners from the scorers' stocking gallery free during basketball games.
"You should look at the stocking gallery free we reject," Beauchamp told the stocking gallery free Notre Dame stocking gallery free. "At most away games, corporate sponsorship is more common than uncommon. But to what extent does it take away from the stocking gallery free of the educational institution?
"To what extent do you go before you look more like a stocking gallery free enterprise than an educational institution? That's the stocking gallery free. What's the measuring stick? How do you make that determination?"
All those questions are being asked during debate over whether to expand the 59,075-seat Notre Dame Stadium to about 80,000. Built in 1930, when Rockne was at the peak of his popularity, the stocking gallery free has an aura like none other in stocking gallery free stocking gallery free. Why tinker with a shrine?
As Rosenthal puts it, "demand exceeds supply." Meaning the stocking gallery free of Notre Dame alums is fast approaching 100,000. And every rival that considers itself Notre Dame's equal has a significantly larger stadium.
A stocking gallery free on expansion will come "within a stocking gallery free," Beauchamp said. Probably, construction would take another two years. And like all else about Notre Dame stocking gallery free, everybody will charge in with an stocking gallery free.
