Rather than waste your time talking about a now-irrelevant football "program", feel free to use TigerForum's search feature. Simply type in "Tulane" and enjoy reading the threads. Throw in an our father or a hail mary, and you'll save yourself some time from reading this whiny titty baby junk from myopic ND "fans."
Yeah......., right: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1208/is_1_223/ai_53552593 Under the Tarnished Dome. This 1993 bestseller, subtitled "How Notre Dame Betrayed its Ideal's for Football Glory," was a public-relations nightmare. It was a controversial indictment of the football program under Holtz, and it included accounts of steroid use, abusive coaching tactics and low or non-existent academic requirements. http://old.irishsports.com/stories/subscription/2004/10/24/isr_football.20041024-isr-TRIB-SS20-Dunbar_fallout_conti.fff.sto Dominiack Mechanical, the South Bend company from which Kimberly Dunbar admitted taking $1.2 million between 1991 and 1998, closed in August. Owner Jerry Dominiack cited the tremendous financial loss from the embezzlement as a reason he closed his plumbing, heating and air conditioning business. Dunbar, who served as Dominiack's bookkeeper, spent much of the money she stole on trips and lavish gifts for her family and friends, including Notre Dame football players and cheerleaders. Her decision to spend money on Notre Dame football players resulted in punishments, although minimal, handed down by the NCAA to Notre Dame. Dunbar was not allowed to bestow gifts on athletes, because she was technically considered a representative of the university as a member of a now-defunct booster organization -- the Notre Dame Quarterback Club. The NCAA's Committee on Infractions in December 1999 penalized Notre Dame in part for the lavish gifts and trips Dunbar gave to Irish football players and their girlfriends. She used money she embezzled from the company to pay for plane fares, hotel accommodations, food expenses, tickets to events, and gifts. Notre Dame also was penalized for two unrelated incidents involving a former quarterback. For the 2000 and 2001 football seasons, Notre Dame lost one scholarship from the maximum number of 85 it was allowed to have on the roster. The infractions committee also placed the football program on two years of probation. The five football players charged as defendants in a civil suit in April 1998 by Dominiack Mechanical in St. Joseph Superior Court were Derrick Mayes, Jarvis Edison, Lee Becton, Ray Zellars and Kinnon Tatum. Mayes reached an out-of-court settlement with Dominiack for less than $10,000. In 2000, several other former football players and cheerleaders, including a former leprechaun, were added to an amended civil suit that remains pending in St. Joseph Superior Court in South Bend. The NCAA report detailed Dunbar's expenditures on jewelry and numerous trips to cities, including Las Vegas; New York; Put-in-Bay, Ohio; and Chicago -- the latter of which included securing a skybox for ND players and others at a Bulls game. Notre Dame was not penalized for gifts Dunbar provided athletes she was dating.
How to tell if a team's fans are losers: 1. Their fans start talking about graduation rates and academics. 2. Their fans start talking about "classless" opponents fans. Winners talk about football.
Yep, we talk about recruiting, winning, and NFL drafts! :thumb: And sometimes a few other things. :yelwink2:
So, I guess its true. The concept of the student-athlete, with emphasis on student, no longer lives on in the SEC. That is, if it ever really did.
In Louisiana, we believe in early intervention and in Middle school, we start giving our potential college bound athletes a copy of the test a couple of days in advance. Hey, it works, you should see the good marks they get. :grin:
