I love data.
When a player transfers, is suspended for an unspecified “violation of team rules,” moves positions or is injured, there is a certain segment of the Irish fanbase that believes it’s because of the university’s “strict standards,” its recruiting style, its use of “tradition” as a crutch – or any whole host of other excuses.
That’s why I love people like Moons. He says, “OK. Are these types of incidents more common at Notre Dame than other schools? Are the cynics right?” Read his Wednesday piece and learn that this kind of offseason chicanery is no more prevalent here than it is as any number of big-name schools.