Shall we rewind to a month before Notre Dame began spring practice, to the last mailbag in this space? “The question has been asked before. It will be asked again.”
Though with different phrasing, that time has come.
What has to happen this spring to keep the optimism alive or raise the optimism of the fans knowing this is only 15 practices and a dozen or so new bodies are arriving this summer? — don74
The January version of this inquiry wondered about who might jump to big-time contributor from the previous ranks of hardly-established starter, if starting at all.