Robinson’s Guarantee Not Worth Billboards on Which It’s Printed

I love those billboards around town that proclaim “Be a Trojan. Beat Notre Dame.” Fortunately for the person who dreamed up that advertisement, the word beat is spelled the same in the past, present and future tenses. It would be more accurate, however, if the billboards were changed to “Be a Trojan. Beat Notre Dame in 1982,” which is the last time that phenomenon occurred. How about a series of new billboards, such as “Be a Trojan. Beat UCLA in 1990,” or “Be a Trojan. Beat Fresno State.” (This, of course, would be purely hypothetical.)

STEVE CRON

Santa Monica

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Let’s see now. A team with a .500 record that gets blown out by Notre Dame and will most likely fail to make it to the Rose Bowl. Boy, John Robinson has sure turned the Trojans around.

TIM PETERSON

Duarte

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It’s now 11 in a row!

Oh, no! Say it isn’t so!

Why is it we get beat?

Is it ‘cause we can’t compete?

Division I is much too tough.

Division II is not so rough.

So when you conference moguls meet,

Please schedule teams that we can beat! JACK McCLELLAN

Alhambra

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After Saturday’s 31-13 Notre Dame victory over USC, the one troubling thing for all good Irish fans is coming up with next year’s slogan. Let’s see, we had “Nine would be fine,” “Decade of Dominance,” “11 would be heaven,” . . . What rhymes with 12?

JOHN REDMOND

San Dimas

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Sir Winston Churchill once said when things looked so bleak for Great Britain in World War II, “Give us the tools and we’ll finish the job.” With the great help of the U.S., his prophecy came to pass.

Coach John Robinson said, “Be a Trojan. Beat Notre Dame.” This, however, was a David-Goliath situation, and you don’t go after the Irish with a slingshot. A bulldozer would be more in order. John went to South Bend with the wrong tool kit. “Air USC” seems so counter to Robinson’s old “Tailback U.” Forty-six passes is BYU football, not USC.

FRANK R. WYNNE

Los Alamitos

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The only concern of Notre Dame fans was that the Irish might be looking ahead to their next opponent--Navy.

MIKE HICKS

Westminster

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In Earl Gustkey’s recent statistical comparison of Heisman Trophy candidate Charlie Ward and USC quarterback Rob Johnson, conveniently omitted was the most important statistic of all: 7-0 vs. 4-4.

GLENN LANGDON

Garden Grove