So, in a few hours, the already annoying whining

will reach a massive new volume, as the BCS bowels are announced. And ND will go to the Sugar Bowel to play LSU, and the masses of fans of every school in the top 15 will scream about "They don't deserve it". Here's the thing they miss: The bowl games are meaningless exhibitions. The teams that "deserve" to go are the ones who will make the bowls money. Always have been. You know how this whole bowl thing got started? Some guy in Pasadena decided that he could make some money by inviting a couple teams to play at their little New Year's Day Rose festival, or whatever the hell they call it. And he was right. And ever since that day, people in charge of bowls invite teams that they think will make them money, giving preference to the team that will make them the most money. That is ND in a nutshell.
I guaran-damn-tee you that ND will ahve the highest rated of the non-"championship" games. And if you want to talk about "well, the highest rated teams should go", then get rid of the conference championship guarantees. Why the hell is, say, Wake at #15 more deserving than ND at #10? So, in short, all you people whining about ND getting in instead of your team (and worse, those of you whining about how ND isn't a buncha damn pinko commies like your team and keeps all the money rather than distribute it to the proletariat ranks of the conference) need to just shut the hell up. And remember, in the words of the great William Munny, even if ND doesn't "deserve" to go based on your shoddy knowledge of football... "Deserve's got nothing to do with it". If deserve had anything to do with it, Wisconsin would be going. But they don't want three teams from a conference going. That's not a football decision, that's placating the greedy conference commissioners who want their crap-ass #2 to get in over a better #3 from another conference so they can get more cash. So don't blame the Sugar bowel for doing the same damn thing and choosing ND.