While it's always the point in time where you wish the college offseason would end, when it gets this close, people start going crazy and just desperately trying to fill the time before the first inaugural kickoff.  Case in point: The Big Lead tossing up some pictures of Jimmy Clausen, Brian Smith and James Aldridge participating in Beer Olympics and Notre Dame apparently taking steps to investigate it.  Cue the pointless hand-wringing, moaning and groaning:

A Notre Dame football spokesman said Monday there was no comment from the team for the time being. But du Lac, the school's guidebook for personal conduct, says that underage drinking and/or the participation in drinking games is cause for potential disciplinary action.

"The office of Residence Life will investigate possible violations of university policies when it is made aware of them, such as in this case," Notre Dame school spokesman Dennis Brown said Monday.

Join me in asking "Who honestly cares about this?".   College kids drink.  99.9% of the time it doesn't hurt anything other than their liver, sometimes your pride, your wallet and/or whatever stuff you break when thrasing out to Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" at the after party.  Now at a normal school, this would get cast aside because there there isn't a single, normal, non-PTC person who would care that a group of friends got together, dressed up as different "countries" and competed in a series of drinking games for an afternoon.  I'd like to think this is just a creation of a blogger at the Tribune, but who knows, because ResLife was recently responsible for kicking a guy out of school for the most minor of minor drug violations that nobody else would or should care about. 

So it appears much like Clausen's Lame Summer Alcohol Problem: 2007 Edition, even those that generally take much glee in picking apart Notre Dame quarterbacks for their various transgressions aren't getting too worked up about it.  Orson is upset, and when the new, Leitch-less Deadspin isn't take a crack at somebody, you know it should probably just be let go.  So do you hear that, ResLife?  Just let it go.  You probably can't prove anything anyway, and if you start persecuting every Notre Dame student that drinks underage you won't have enough time to go after those that break parietals or are playing beer pong in their dorm room, and I know nobody wants that.

So let's just pretend this didn't happen and move along to more serious matters.