“Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies”
– Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption
It seems like a lot of the Notre Dame fan base could use a little bit of hope right now.
Just under two weeks removed from a 34-10 loss that wasn’t even that close in the ACC Championship Game to Clemson, Notre Dame has as tough of task as they could imagine in top-ranked Alabama in the Rose Bowl.
The Irish enter as the biggest underdog in the history of the College Football Playoff and with seemingly an entire nation that’s waiting anxiously to see them epically fail on the grandest of stages again.
Instead of sitting and waiting to get punched in the mouth though, why not look for a little bit of that hope and think positively entering the new year?
Here are five things that absolutely must happen for Notre Dame to