I think we all agree with your points... which is exactly why we're such huge Navy fans. The fact is our football players play soley for pride. When they graduate they go to the Fleet or the Marine Corps just like the rest of the student body. We live with them, we did plebe summer and year with them, and they are ingrained in our companies, platoons, and squads. This is clearly not an NFL factory; so when we can beat a school of that caliber (i.e. Notre Dame) it's a huge deal, even if they did suck this year. They shouldn't have... and they should have beaten us if we're going off pure numbers, their O and D lines are like 1/3 bigger than our guys in height and weight. How many credits do you think most of them take, and in what major, and what will they do when they graduate? And then you look at our guys, and you see Zerbin Singleton who has overcome basically every obstacle life can throw to one person and he's an Aero Major with a 3.xx GPA and he's slated to be the Academy's next Brigade Commander (highest ranking MIDN). You look at Reggie Campbell, who's 5'6", and a scrawny Hawaiian kid at QB who was thrown into the fire his sophomore year against an amazing Rutgers team. We take pride in our team because of who they are, what they are doing, and what they aspire to do. They are not your "new age" NFL factory college football team, and are old school in every sense of the word -- they play for pride and for their school and for each other.
