Every football team has a crucial stretch of games that defines a season.

Every team also has a head coach during that time.

Win, and that coach is praised as a human god by the fans, media and bandwagoners all over.

Lose, and that same man is blamed, jeered and held responsible for his team's collapse, followed by a season ending with a post-apocalyptic feeling.

Notre Dame and their head coach face this challenge starting this weekend.

Purdue.. who?

The "judgement" van hits the road on Saturday and stops in a familiar setting for the Irish—West Lafayette.

Here, they will encounter the broken and battered Boilermakers of Purdue.

Some will argue that...

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