The entire BIG conference is awful.....they routinely get slaughtered against opponents from other conferences.....too slow, too white, too old-fashioned, awful recruiting, waaaay behind.
This guy put it best:
The Paul Hornung Brouhaha
Paul Hornung's gaffe: telling the truth: Nobody's more politically correct than a NYT sportswriter, so when 1956 Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung stated the bleeding obvious, William C. Rhoden was quick to round up the lynch mob: "Sports of The Times: Hornung Has Failed to Meet Standard of Common Sense:"
During a radio interview in Detroit on Tuesday night, Hornung, frustrated by a losing season at Notre Dame, said that the university needed to lower its academic standards so more black athletes could play there. In the interview with WXYT-AM, as reported by The Associated Press, Hornung said: "We can't stay as strict as we are as far as the academic structure is concerned because we've got to get the black athletes. We must get the black athletes if we're going to compete."...
