The Notre Dame Fighting Irish will fly out to San Diego next week for their annual game against the Navy Midshipmen. During the offseason, many Irish fans (including this one) openly expressed real concern when it came to the amount of travel the Irish were going to have to do this season.
In case you may not know, this game is technically a Navy home game. Per tradition, Navy chooses a neutral site for the game — usually in an NFL Stadium. Almost always, the game is played east of the Mississippi River.
When the location for this game was announced, I don’t remember thinking much about it at all.