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Date Posted: 16:27:27 12/10/08 Wed
Author: HOF
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Subject: ND Mission Statement

ND Football Mission Statement
by molecular (12/10/2008 16:45:51)

For those who missed it or don't remember it, shortly before the start of the 2007 season, NDNation poster Ronald Reagan wrote an eloquent piece about Notre Dame, including some thoughts about our football program. I don't want to repost it, and I want to make sure Dutch receives all of the credit for this, but a few paragraphs summarize what ND football once was and should be. If this had been a guiding principle for ND's administration for the last 30 years, we wouldn't be in this mess:

And so it is that we willingly defend her honor on Saturdays in the fall when we do strong battle against those who would dare to take that which she has bequeathed to us. We strap on our pads, we don our helmets, and we rise up with explosive force to engage in masculine, titanic struggle for the ultimate victory of the Lady on the Dome.

Victory is a decision. And it is a decision that we make without apology. No matter the foe, no matter the price, we seek victory and nothing less. We shall not be defined by circumstance, and we shall never ask anyone for permission to succeed.

Those who openly pine for Notre Dame’s luster to be tarnished, or who brashly claim that she’d prefer to live in the glory of a bygone era, indict themselves by their very words, for it is they who do not – and perhaps cannot – understand the nature of this place.

We are a nation triumphant. We are a nation compassionate. We are a nation accomplished, yet forever aspiring. We are a nation sublime, a nation united, and a nation set apart, destined to be loved, to be feared, to be admired, and to be envied, but, above all, destined to prevail.

We are, in the final analysis, a nation of champions, who, with Our Mother atop the dome, stand victorious.

We are Notre Dame.

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>ND Football Mission Statement >by molecular (12/10/2008 16:45:51) > >For those who missed it or don't remember it, shortly >before the start of the 2007 season, NDNation poster >Ronald Reagan wrote an eloquent piece about Notre >Dame, including some thoughts about our football >program. I don't want to repost it, and I want to make >sure Dutch receives all of the credit for this, but a >few paragraphs summarize what ND football once was and >should be. If this had been a guiding principle for >ND's administration for the last 30 years, we wouldn't >be in this mess: > >And so it is that we willingly defend her honor on >Saturdays in the fall when we do strong battle against >those who would dare to take that which she has >bequeathed to us. We strap on our pads, we don our >helmets, and we rise up with explosive force to engage >in masculine, titanic struggle for the ultimate >victory of the Lady on the Dome. > >Victory is a decision. And it is a decision that we >make without apology. No matter the foe, no matter the >price, we seek victory and nothing less. We shall not >be defined by circumstance, and we shall never ask >anyone for permission to succeed. > >Those who openly pine for Notre Dame’s luster to be >tarnished, or who brashly claim that she’d prefer to >live in the glory of a bygone era, indict themselves >by their very words, for it is they who do not – and >perhaps cannot – understand the nature of this place. > >We are a nation triumphant. We are a nation >compassionate. We are a nation accomplished, yet >forever aspiring. We are a nation sublime, a nation >united, and a nation set apart, destined to be loved, >to be feared, to be admired, and to be envied, but, >above all, destined to prevail. > >We are, in the final analysis, a nation of champions, >who, with Our Mother atop the dome, stand victorious. > >We are Notre Dame.

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