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Article: Notre Dame battles negative recruiting perceptions; Nonsense: White nixes idea that school's standards are too high

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December 11, 2001
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Myth mixes regularly with reality at Notre Dame, sometimes making it hard to tell the two apart.

Irish fans don't worry whether coach Knute Rockne's famous pregame speech of "Win one for the Gipper" is based on fact, or whether the Four Horsemen were immortalized more for Grantland Rice's prose than their athletic ability.

They are part of the Golden Dome mystique that celebrates everything from a walk-on player in the movie "Rudy" to Touchdown Jesus on the school library to the two coaches with the best winning percentages in NCAA history in Rockne and Frank Leahy.

Athletic director Kevin White is concerned, though, with what he describes as another myth: that Notre ...

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