[patent]

Notre Dame has about 7500 undergrads, I believe, as well as a couple thousand graduate students.

[FreeTally]

Notre Dame has about 7500 undergrads, I believe, as well as a couple thousand graduate students.

And Notre Dame is a popular university that has been around for what, 150-200 years? My point is that the school could not get enough recruits to be a Div 1-A team. I may be wrong about the size of enrollment playing a major part, but UCF, USF and even FIU have football teams and aren't nationally ranked(even though they have put players in the pros).

[BlackElk]

But, Ave Maria will actually be Catholic, unlike Notre Dame, as long as Monaghan has anything to say about it and maybe much longer if he is careful in developing it.