Rockne's Roundtable

How can he judge something he hadn't seen yet?

This is just more ESPN garbage. Reiley calls us irrelevant and then they have a whole section of the front page dedicated to ND. They even had a 4 or 5 question poll on if ND is irrelevant. It's all a gimmick and I'm sure they spun the interview to make it sound worse than what he actually said.

Im surprised abit too Lou. He didnt strike me as a conformist either. But my thoughts here have mimicked what he said here. All this luring recruits via uniform and jumbotron gives me a head shaking 'whatever' as well. I dont much care if we put on Hefty garbage bags to play, as long as our counter looks crisp, our downfield passing game is tight, and our defense is stingy.

In a vacuum without consideration of any outside factors, i.e. tradition, what makes Notre Dame football identifiable, etc., I think the uniforms are okay and appreciate some of the effort and thought that went into the design.

But in reality, Samardzija is right. The uniforms have little to no impact on anything important, winning and recruiting included. The Shamrock Series uniforms are little more than a contrived effort to sell more shirts. How else do you get people to buy more of the same stuff they already have?

At least the throwback idea inspired some nostalgia. The Shamrock Series unis are just overkill for the sake of moving merchandise through the bookstore.

I have no problem with anyones opinions.

Am I not allowed to wonder how he judged something he didn't see? Don't care what he or anyone else thinks about it, that's their right. And it's all a little strange that Reiley wrote the most hateful article of ND I've ever read and then all of a sudden ND is on the front pages of ESPN for days. The garbage is they are doing all this on purpose for ratings.

And we all fell for it. How many threads about Reiley were started and how many hits did ESPN.com get because of it?

I guess we are joining the GD fashionistas. Used to be you could identify teams right away, by the traditional uniforms, look etc. i'm not against making some subtle changes over time, just as the game itself does. But this is awful, and it proves our "taste" can be just as sour as any other tom, dick, or harry. SUCKS.......

It's a good thing he doesn't require your approval then

It was a joke. But the same could be said that the uniforms don't require his approval as well.

You're right

He can judge it sight unseen because he paid his dues at the University of Notre Dame in two sports and excelled at both. He gave us many memorable moments in football and gave all he had.

That gives him the right to judge anything he wants..

I didn't think what Samardzjia said was terrible. He wasn't criticizing the specific uniform so much as the stepping out of character to grab some glitzy headline. His final word on the matter was, "Whatever", meaning 'who cares'?
Other than the dark blue background behind the leprechaun on the side of the helmet, it isn't that big a deal. It has stimulated some advance notoriety for the game, which is a good thing. I think there could have been a better designed unifiform but, conceptualy, I don't think the one game changeup is a bad thing.