Notre Dame baseball settles into gray area of new college sports landscape

Maybe the reason Pete Bevacqua spoke in shades of gray about the Notre Dame baseball program recently was because that’s where its reality sits at the moment. In limbo. Which isn’t the worst-case scenario, three years removed from its third-ever College World Series run. But in college athletics’ new rev-share world, perennial irrelevance is in play. A higher ceiling is too, but how high? And is Notre Dame willing to pay that price?