Under The Tarnished Dome
Under The Tarnished Dome
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Ever since the days of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame has presented itself as something special: a great football school, yes, but also a great university, and somehow cleaner and purer than its brethren at the top of the weekly college football polls. Being a Notre Dame Man was something to be proud of; it meant you were part of a great tradition, not just of wins on the field but of integrity off it, and that you were prospering in an academic setting that cut no corners for the sake of its teams.
In the last decade, however, Notre Dame has been linked with a wholly different set of values. Trash talking. Pregame fights. Off-field hell-raising. Academic misfits. Steroids> All the earmarks of a renegade program spinning out of control. How could this have happened at the one school people want so much to believe in?
In UNDER THE TARNISHED DOME, Don Yaeger and Douglas S Looney take an in-depth look at the Fighting Irish over the past ten years. Drawing from more than 150 interviews, including nearly a hundred with former Notre Dame players, Yaeger and Looney describe the current state of Notre Dame football and show how far short of its ideals it has fallen.
