"But what unsettles me about Groves’ argument
is that he eventually makes the claim that Notre Dame is “one of America’s best
examples of winning ‘the right way.’” Even worse, he suggests that the team’s
haters must acknowledge as much, forced to swallow what is nothing less than
irrefutable fact. It’s a popular claim and one that alludes not only to Notre
Dame’s supremacy on the field, so far undisputed this year, but to its
infallibility on some sort of moral scale."
"That idea, the so-called “right way,” irks me like few
others. I’m honestly surprised that we have yet to retire the lazy and often
dangerous phrase from the sports lexicon. To understand why, one needs only to
think back on the figures who were famously thought to do things “the right
way” until quite recently: Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Joe
Paterno."
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