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I share this only because I suspect I am far from alone ... by CJC

Not that long ago, I would have been -- and was -- outraged at the slightest suggestion that Notre Dame would or should consider conference affiliation for football.

Now, I really don't care. I'll watch the games on television when I don't have something better to do. I've only been in the Stadium once since 2015 (at my wife's insistence to attend our son's last home game as a student at ND).

I don't care if we join the ACC or the Big 10 (particularly now that the eunuch Delany is retired) or the SEC or the NFL or the IHSA or the Premier League.

When it comes to football, Notre Dame stopped being Notre Dame when they decided that Kelly deserved more than Brennan or Kuharich or Faust or Davie or Willingham or Weis got.

Monk won. Fuck them all.

And again, I share this not because anyone should give a fuck what I think, but because I know for a fact that I'm not alone in these sentiments.

If Notre Dame has lost people like me as passionate fans, not only have they "lost," but they've demonstrated beyond any rational doubt that they just don't give a fuck about Notre Dame football.