This is a traumatic response. I read about this one in my Intro to Psychology class back in sophomore year, shoutout Prof C. It is not abnormal once someone endures a traumatic event, severe attention deprivation maybe, that a typical response to that event is obsession. This fanbase is seemingly obsessed with acceptance and the attention they feel they have been deprived of.
Honestly, we should all kneel down and pay homage to Notre Dame. Thank you to Notre Dame for bringing the ACC back into relevancy? This borderline group of 5 conference owes everything to the program who drubbed almost every ACC opponent they faced and killed Paris Ford’s career at Pitt (you bastards!). This will be a theme carried on over the next 3 or 4 seasons maybe. Next year when an unranked coastal team meets Clemson in the ACC championship it’ll be “I bet you wish you had another Notre Dame-Clemson matchup in the national championship”. “Look at me! I told you I’m relevant!” At least when the coastal team that falls ass backwards into the ACC championship, they receive the benefit of exposure on the national stage (something that these programs benefit immensely from). I’d rather have another year watching the coastal crapshoot play out instead of having another Notre Dame Clemson championship. I won’t miss Notre Dame when they bounce. I will enjoy the comments that come after their departure. Call me salty, that’s fine. Go back to playing a great(?) Michigan team, Navy, and a Clay Helton led USC team every year. I’ll be relishing in the return of the coastal division, still coming to terms that I’m going to have another year of an offensive coordinator who calls plays like Joe Biden speaks in Public, unaware of his surroundings and unable to form a complete sentence (will you shut up, man).