Latest Loss Gives the Irish Out-of-Pocket Experience

Let’s see. Lost $8 million in ’96. Lost $10 million in ’98. These trips to the Coliseum are getting awfully expensive, huh, Notre Dame?

TEX WALL, Burbank

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When the fourth-best team in the Pac-10 shuts out the No. 9-ranked team in the nation, will that get the attention of the East Coast pollsters as to how tough this league really is? Nah, probably not.

DON ROWLAND, Camarillo

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Notre Dame was completed in Paris about 1250 AD. It appears that the offensive football scheme of the American university bearing the same name was conceived in the same era.

WESLEY WELLMAN, Santa Monica

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‘Twas a nightmare, that UCLA game,

My Men of Troy were put to shame.

Then I paused for awhile,

and then thought, with a smile,

“Thank God there’s always Notre Dame.”

DAVID PAGE, Ventura