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Notre Dame's errors lead to much uncertainty.
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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December 4, 2004
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2004 Chicago Tribune. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Avani Patel
CHICAGO _ Notre Dame began last week as a football program in the middle of the pack, hoping a victory in a midlevel bowl game would be a start toward recapturing the once-golden glow it had squandered with 6-5 and 5-7 records the last two seasons.
The school ended the week as the butt of jokes, its dignity diminished, its ideals apparently compromised.
And now it is left floundering, trying to hire a football coach for the third time in three years.
How did it happen? How did one of the most storied programs in college football suddenly create the perception that it doesn't know what it's doing? Why is the job that every coach in America ...
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