2020 is not 1993. Phil Jurkovec is not David Gordon. And the former Notre Dame quarterback has nothing to prove against the Irish, nor vice versa.
None of the players in question this weekend were even born when No. 16 Boston College crushed Notre Dame’s 1993 title hopes with a last-second field goal. No, not even sixth-year safety Shaun Crawford. In fact, Irish fifth-year left tackle Liam Eichenberg professed complete ignorance of the moment this week, perhaps hard to fathom until realizing many of these players are not interested in Notre Dame until their junior years of high school, at which point their focus is on creating their own history.