I blame David Gordon! That kick, 22 years ago, has sent the Notre Dame Football program into the 7th Circle of Hell. We take baby steps, we make improvement, and we think the stars are aligned, then David Gordon metaphorically kicks this program and it’s fans, right between the legs again. On a wet and windy evening in South Carolina, the haunting specter did it again. Notre Dame started slowly, coughed up the ball in crucial situations, and yet came up 2 yards short of sending this game to overtime.
The game couldn’t have started in a worse fashion for the Irish.