Irish have luck, but not much else

Irish have luck, but not much else

Notre Dame looks like Notre Dame again.
This is not the good news for you Fighting Irish football fans. This is the bad.
Only a lucky fumble—or a lucky referee’s call, depending on your vantage point—kept Notre Dame Stadium’s 200th consecutive sellout crowd from sitting through yet another embarrassing and mortifying defeat Saturday.
Charlie Weis understood how unimpressive a 21-13 survival over a so-so San Diego State Aztecs team looked to everybody in the house, including Joe Montana, watching from the sidelines. The Irish coach nevertheless walked away satisfied, saying, “I’ll take an ugly win every day of the week.”

chicagotribune.com
9/7/08