In 1916, renowned American poet Robert Frost wrote about two paths which diverged into a yellow wood. After evaluating both options, Frost takes “the one less traveled by” and chooses not to look back. “The Road Not Taken” is often used to illustrate the bravery of being an iconoclast and the courage it can require to go where others tend not even if you “doubt [you] will ever come back” to sample the other choice.
But it was another interpretation that has come to mind for me when thinking about Notre Dame’s men’s basketball program right now — the necessity of making a choice in order to move forward and not being paralyzed by indecision.