I recognize the argument that it's extraordinarily difficult to give up your dream. And despite the fact that Faust was eventually the only person on the face of the earth who thought, as he famously told Sports Illustrated, so the statement could find its way onto a magazine cover, "I'm gonna make it," I won't go so far as to accuse him of keeping the job after he knew he was doomed to failure.
But goddamnit, don't tell the entire world, including me, across from his office desk, in April 1981, that, "I love Notre Dame so much nobody will have to tell me to leave if I can't get the job done."
And at the very least, an acknowledgment that he didn't love Notre Dame enough to do what was best for Notre Dame at some point after year three (at the very latest) would be appropriate and appreciated.
