Faith is a guiding force for a number of college football programs, but Notre Dame takes it a notch higher. Marcus Freeman has reshaped the religious identity of the program during his tenure. The Fighting Irish usually take a few moments to pray in the locker room before walking out. Now imagine, after being in an environment like that, a player rallies his teammates to yell out a slur for motivation. Shocking, right?

Center Ashton Craig is now being criticised for doing exactly that ahead of Notre Dame’s clash against Arkansas. Notre Dame has always been a standout program, particularly because of its philosophy on religion. It’s essentially the foundation of the school. In an atmosphere like that, Craig used an expletive to get into game mode while walking out of the tunnel. And it was

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