Keyshawn Johnson really, really doesn’t like Notre Dame

Sometimes I’ll ponder to myself or with other Notre Dame fans about what we’d like USC to be. With a national head coaching search in full-go mode since September, the Trojans have a massive hire they’ll be making in the next few weeks.

Part of me thinks it’d be awesome to have Notre Dame and USC both be great at the same time for years and years, since it’s been decades since that was the case. I also think of Matt Zemek who runs Trojans Wire and who I had a blast going to Notre Dame-USC memory with earlier this year, and think how he deserves to cover a football team that’s actually worth watching.

Then on the Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving I scroll through Twitter and find Keyshawn Johnson to quickly talk sense back into me as he reminded me why I’d forever like to USC trip over themselves and not make bowl games.

Johnson, the former USC All-American, now works on ESPN Radio’s morning show with Max Kellerman and Jay Williams that you’d have to guarantee me a check in order to tune into.

Anyway, the gang was talking about potential College Football Playoff teams on Wednesday and Johnson shared the following well thought-out point:

“I don’t want to see the damn Irish, period!”@keyshawn does NOT want to see Notre Dame make the College Football Playoff again. #KJM pic.twitter.com/8fFyJKFQsK

— Keyshawn, JWill & Max (@KeyJayandMax) November 24, 2021

I know some parts of Notre Dame Twitter are real upset with Johnson for what he said but I actually appreciate it. Plenty out there will claim to have no bias against Notre Dame but then craft incredibly dumb arguments to try and single the Irish out negatively. At least Johnson just gives it to us straight and doesn’t try hide from his dislike.

I however have no idea what Notre Dame ever did to Johnson to make him feel that way…

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