[NDIrish]

[quote author=thunder_chik link=topic=10754.msg99999#msg99999 date=1412118948]
OK, just to clear up the "football factory" accusations, I checked with a website, databasefootball.com, to compare the number of ND guys vs Stanford guys who at one time have played at the NFL level...doesn't include currently active players (most recent listing was for 2008-2010), but goes back to the 1920s.  Can't vouch for the accuracy of the lists, but ND has had 494 players to Stanford's 199.
BTW, there is not a brobdingnagian difference in undergrad enrollments at the two (ND, 8371; SU, 6980).
Relative to much larger schools, I don't think either of us can credibly fling the term "football factory" around.  Let's save it for the SEC schools...or maybe U*S*C.

What does that have to do with anything? A school can have a good football team (and thus send players to the NFL) without being a "football factory". I use that term to mean that they're a football team with a school attached, not the other way around.
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And that is how i took your comment and that is why i felt it was incorrect.  ND can stand on its own without a football program, as well can Stanford.  There are many who could not!  But you have to realize ND is much more than its football program.... thats just being closed minded!

[NDIrish]

[quote author=thunder_chik link=topic=10754.msg99999#msg99999 date=1412118948]
OK, just to clear up the "football factory" accusations, I checked with a website, databasefootball.com, to compare the number of ND guys vs Stanford guys who at one time have played at the NFL level...doesn't include currently active players (most recent listing was for 2008-2010), but goes back to the 1920s.  Can't vouch for the accuracy of the lists, but ND has had 494 players to Stanford's 199.
BTW, there is not a brobdingnagian difference in undergrad enrollments at the two (ND, 8371; SU, 6980).
Relative to much larger schools, I don't think either of us can credibly fling the term "football factory" around.  Let's save it for the SEC schools...or maybe U*S*C.

What does that have to do with anything? A school can have a good football team (and thus send players to the NFL) without being a "football factory". I use that term to mean that they're a football team with a school attached, not the other way around.
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And that is how i took your comment and that is why i felt it was incorrect.  ND can stand on its own without a football program, as well can Stanford.  There are many who could not!  But you have to realize ND is much more than its football program.... thats just being closed minded!