Yeh, Hornung, Montana, and Theismann all sucked coming out of there. You can only play who is on your schedule. If you play well, great, if you don't, then you aren't very good.
That was a different era and I'm pretty sure you know that. Riddle me this, what happens every time ND finds themselves in a marquee bowl matchup since 2005?
I'm not against Ian Book, I'm just being real because that most wins argument falls flat when you look at how ND builds their schedule and what happens when ND makes it to either a BCS bowl game or the CFP.