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I feel that at 45 I’m in a generation that still saw by NW Ohio Irish
great Irish teams live. My first games I can remember was around 84 or 85 as my dad cursed the ground Faust walked on. In 86 and especially in 87 you could feel that Lou was turning the ship around and to me, the Faust years were an exception not the norm. Through the late 1980s to mid 90s I felt that despite losing some games there was no one in the nation we couldn’t compete with and had the playoffs been around then, we most likely would have had more championships under Holtz. I fell in love with the Irish 35 years ago but to your point, even at my age, the downs are starting to outweigh all the positives I first fell in love with. I feel sorry for anyone who became a fan from 1997 on.