There’s a longstanding theory that schools like Notre Dame or Stanford can’t consistently field great college football teams because of the comparatively rigorous academic requirements those schools have. It’s a competitive disadvantage that’s been baked into their DNA, and their football teams can’t do much about it. You can find similar baked-in disadvantages all across professional sports (e.g. a state’s high income tax or cold weather turning off free agents), but one odd disadvantage has always stood out because of how decidedly self-imposed it is: the New York Yankees’ dress code. Accord…