I can’t remember the last time we had a “normal” offseason for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and college football as a whole. For almost 15 years, we have been bombarded with conference realignment and postseason shuffling from January until well into the start of the regular season. As fun and exciting as some of it has been — it’s also been a huge distraction to the best regular season of any sport out there.
But we don’t need to rehash and give a list of grievances here. No — there’s a mega distraction that has us occupied at the moment.