<p>There are only a handful of schools that can seem to have it both ways. Sure do hope that Notre Dame will be in that handful that can successfully keep winning football teams and superior academics. Sadly, it is the institutions that seem to place much more emphasis on the athletics and the money that accompanies those championships that make it difficult for the more academic institutions to survive, especially if they happen to be institutions that once had championship records. But, who knows, maybe Notre Dame can return to having it both ways…we just happened to send a kid to school there for the academics!</p>