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Speaker 4: I'm gonna get to a lot of this hour, a

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Speaker 4: lot of NFL.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna talk about the Dodgers and how they duped

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Speaker 5: us all.

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Speaker 2: Don't over promise.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna try not to, but I do want to say,

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Speaker 5: twenty five years ago today, a show debuted on HBO,

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Speaker 5: not a spin off, but from the creator of the

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Speaker 5: most successful sitcom.

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Speaker 2: In network history, Pretty Day, Pretty Day.

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Speaker 4: Pretty Good.

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Speaker 5: Larry David debuted Curb Your Enthusiasm twenty five years ago today.

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Speaker 4: So that's one of those holy nikes.

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Speaker 3: Twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 2: Then how many years ago was this when we were

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Speaker 2: watching First and Ten, The Bulls, Bean Business and dream

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Speaker 2: On and all those shows.

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Speaker 4: So it's one hundred and five years.

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Speaker 5: Twenty five years ago Curb Your Enthusiasm debuted, and I

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Speaker 5: always thought it was one of the best comedies. I

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Speaker 5: actually hot take. I like Curb better than Seinfeld. Sometimes

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Speaker 4: Relatable that I don't know about that. No.

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Speaker 6: Your thing about Curb, though, is it took like, didn't

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Speaker 6: take at least one break. So you say twenty five

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Speaker 4: Yeah? But they took like a nine year hiatus or something, and there.

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Speaker 5: Are breaks in between, yea, And they were long seasons

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Speaker 5: like Seinfeld. But I mean, we think about all the

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Speaker 5: comedy Larry David's brought us between those two shows, so

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Speaker 5: props to him twenty five years since Curb. So just

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Speaker 5: a little timestamp today as we hang in for the

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Speaker 5: great Dan Patrick here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I love how they solved a murder mystery because Larry

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Speaker 2: David was filming during a Dodgers game, and.

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Speaker 4: That is wild.

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Speaker 5: Then we're gonna get to the Dodgers. I do want

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Speaker 5: to bring up one thing that's a true story you

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Speaker 5: can look up on your own time. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 5: Dodgers and baseball playoffs and NFL, but don't don't blink

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Speaker 5: because another NBA season is gonna be here before you

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Speaker 5: know it. I did think it was cool to hear

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Speaker 5: the return of round Ball Rock, the John Tesh theme

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Speaker 5: that we all love so Munger.

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Speaker 2: Fan of John Tesh than you rich listen to him

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Speaker 7: The Peacock announcer was just casually talking over the intro

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Speaker 7: and it just made you feel, Yeah, like a kid again.

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Speaker 4: Basketball.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you hear the song It's slid into the kitchen,

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Speaker 2: dunk it and you play that. Yet, did everyone have

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Speaker 8: Yep?

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Speaker 2: You get all ready for some basketball?

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Speaker 5: I just backed that song is so synonymous with great

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Speaker 4: Last night.

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Speaker 5: I talked about this earlier, but the more I'm thinking

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Speaker 2: Only no, it's not the Dodgers duping us, or did

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Speaker 2: not realizing the obvious of It's a long season. Health

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Speaker 5: And that was the goal, and that's the goal, and

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Speaker 5: can't say that I wasn't surprised. I think we're all

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Speaker 5: surprised that the Dodgers barely won their division and they

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Speaker 5: in the wildcard round. No one would have ever thought

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Speaker 4: The wild card and go through all this and have.

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Speaker 2: To click though the right time. And sure enough, Monce

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Speaker 7: And every single guy you just mentioned missed a good

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Speaker 7: But you guys on the Afternoon Show, you talk about

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Speaker 7: at the exact perfect time and then make a run.

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Speaker 4: No doubt.

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Speaker 5: In fact, the statos of the thirty years since they

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Speaker 5: which is really interesting when you think how twenty three

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Speaker 2: Thank you Dwayne's stats. And speaking of stats, you gotta

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Speaker 2: I feel like certain hats are made to be worn

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Speaker 4: Can you be a guy that does both?

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Speaker 2: I feel like, uh, my curve is like Flash Gordon's bro.

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Speaker 2: Because certain hats are meant to be curved and other

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Speaker 2: his Dodgers hat strong yesterday complete game, the first since

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Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, first postseason complete game. Last person to do

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Speaker 2: and the Dodgers haven't done it since four According to

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Speaker 4: I'm sung up on God for a second.

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Speaker 5: I'm sorry what I just by the way, it's funny

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Speaker 5: to think that the baseball hat, a piece of sports equipment,

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Speaker 5: no one wears a chef's hat, as Mitch Hedberg. Mitch

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Speaker 5: Hedburg has some line about like you only wear that

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Speaker 4: You're the Swedish chef.

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Speaker 2: For Jon Hurts. Baseball hat is pretty much the only

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Speaker 7: Here's one more pitching stat for you. Blake Snell and

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Speaker 7: Yoshi Yamamoto are the first starter since twenty sixteen to

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so when you're starting pitching is delivering like that,

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Speaker 5: We forget that in the preseason in spring training before

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Speaker 4: The whole joke was and they got Blake Snell.

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Speaker 5: When they signed Blake Snell, that was almost like an

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Speaker 8: And now but then he didn't play all season because

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Speaker 5: But the Dodgers fans dreams are coming to fruition. Your

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Speaker 5: Yamamoto did what you wanted him to do. Now what's next?

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Speaker 5: Glass Now if he gets it done? And then what

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Speaker 5: Game four? You go to the biggest star in baseball

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Speaker 4: So arguably the Dodgers are doing everything we thought they

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Speaker 5: It's just the last six months of injuries and confusion

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Speaker 2: Maybe for a second, reminding everybody that they are the

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Speaker 8: That with likable players.

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Speaker 2: Though you know, it's hard to deny he really is. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I saw a Yankees fan like you post yesterday. You

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Speaker 7: know what, Yes, I hate the Dodgers, but it's hard

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Speaker 8: The players on their team.

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Speaker 2: Could you not like Mookie Bets?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they're just not like Freddie.

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Speaker 8: They have magic, They have magic Johnson's smiles.

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Speaker 2: How could you not like Shoho Tan? He transcends, you know, fandom,

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Speaker 2: He's just everybody.

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Speaker 5: Denny, as I've I've pointed out before. You know, we're

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Speaker 5: new to the Dan Patrick audience for a lot of people.

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Speaker 5: I'm a Mets fan from New York. My kids are

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Speaker 5: with the Dodgers because we live out here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 4: All their little schoolmates and.

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Speaker 5: All the kids they play little league and softball and

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Speaker 5: base with, Like the Dodgers. So I'm watching them wanting

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Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman, Mookie Bett Show, Hey Will Smith, Tommy Edmund,

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Speaker 9: It was very hard.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I started hate Freddy Freeman's flat top.

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Speaker 5: Two victories. In Milwaukee, there was a Dodgers fan, a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, who his name is, Willie Prince Mada. Willy Prince

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Speaker 5: We're happy to have you. Indiana Park, Milwaukee, Indianapolis. The

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Speaker 4: Let me put this into context. Shut up. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Paulie has this bad habit of whenever we have Kerrent

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Speaker 3: coach's fifth season and played, of course, at Ohio State,

443
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Speaker 3: the Ohio State drafted by the Bears, your Bears in

444
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Speaker 3: the fifth round of two thousand and nine. As we

445
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Speaker 3: make way for Marcus Freeman back on the program. Look

446
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Speaker 3: at you.

447
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Speaker 9: How you doing?

448
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great? You know. Nice to talk to a

449
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Speaker 3: fellow Buckeye here Ohio in Ohio and.

450
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Speaker 9: Oh, I'm sorry, that's what we're saying around here.

451
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Speaker 3: How would you compare because it came down to Notre

452
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Speaker 3: Dame in Ohio State for you, right? What was it

453
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Speaker 3: about Ohio State that made you, even though you're from Ohio,

454
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Speaker 3: but that you chose Ohio State over Notre Dame.

455
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Speaker 9: We're really getting into this, huh.

456
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Speaker 3: Let's just get the tough questions out of the way

457
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Speaker 3: and then we'll have the easy ones.

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Speaker 10: I think they always come down to relationships. A lot

459
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Speaker 10: of decisions, especially for young people, are about relationships. I

460
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:14,840
Speaker 10: just went through this with my son who committed to

461
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Speaker 10: Cornell for wrestling, and as a parent, you have your

462
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Speaker 10: reasons for why you make decisions, but young people still

463
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Speaker 10: base a lot of their decisions off of relationships, and

464
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Speaker 10: I think that was probably the eighteen year old Marcus

465
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Speaker 10: Freeman that made that decision based off relationships.

466
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Speaker 3: Comparing contrast USC Notre Dame versus Ohio State Michigan.

467
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Speaker 9: Very similar.

468
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Speaker 10: If you're in one of the schools, right, if you're

469
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Speaker 10: in it, so Notre Dame USC, when you're a part

470
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Speaker 10: of this football program, there's nothing bigger than that rivalry.

471
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Speaker 10: And I think the same thing is if you go

472
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Speaker 10: to Ohio State or Michigan, you're from Ohio, there's probably

473
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Speaker 10: nothing bigger than that rivalry.

474
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Speaker 9: And so.

475
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Speaker 10: For us when we talk about this, this rivalry verse

476
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Speaker 10: USC the longest intersectional rivalry meaning interconference right, and I

477
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Speaker 10: mean I'm sorry, not interconference, but not in the same conference.

478
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Speaker 10: And that's what makes it special. It's kind of the

479
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 10: foundation of Notre Dame and the ability to go and say, hey,

480
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Speaker 10: we'll play anywhere in the country. We don't have a conference,

481
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Speaker 10: and that's how this program was built and that's why

482
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Speaker 10: it means a lot.

483
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's been going on for many years.

484
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but why is it in jeopardy?

485
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Speaker 9: Listen, I don't.

486
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Speaker 3: You know, do you want to talk about Ohio State.

487
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Speaker 10: Look, you know there's decisions that that institutions make based

488
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Speaker 10: off conference you know, scheduling and things like that, and

489
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Speaker 10: I know that's playing into some of the discussions that

490
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Speaker 10: USC's happened.

491
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Speaker 9: I'm sure with our administration and the higher ups.

492
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 10: I'm sure are you know, going back and forth on

493
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Speaker 10: maybe little details.

494
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Speaker 9: I think so, I don't know.

495
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Speaker 3: You know, it feels like the USC it's tough for

496
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Speaker 3: to throw in another great opponent when you're in the

497
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Speaker 3: Big Ten, when there's quality opponents and you know, you

498
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 3: can't have three losses and be in the playoffs. Like,

499
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Speaker 3: let's just look at the business side of this. It

500
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Speaker 3: feels like USC means more to Notre Dame than Notre

501
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Speaker 3: Dame means to USC.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

503
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Speaker 10: I don't know what we mean to them, but I

504
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 10: know it means a lot to us. It does the rivalry,

505
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 10: the quality of opponent, the respect for the program. It

506
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Speaker 10: is a it does mean a lot to this university

507
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Speaker 10: and this football program, and we want to see it continue.

508
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Speaker 3: What was it like first time you took the field

509
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Speaker 3: as the head coach at Notre Dame.

510
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Speaker 10: Man, it's a it's a blur. I know it was

511
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 10: in Phoenix, Arizona Scott's day. We were playing Oregon, you know,

512
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:06,679
Speaker 10: Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl, and you don't know.

513
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 10: What you don't know, you know, is adrenaline rush. You're

514
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Speaker 10: running out there's I'm used to being a defensive coordinator,

515
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden, there was moments in

516
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:16,920
Speaker 10: a game like I got a call time On'm like, oh,

517
00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,520
Speaker 10: somebody called time on to me, you know, And so

518
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 10: all the things that you kind of weren't involved in, yeah,

519
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 10: now you're involved in. Yeah, a man, Now you have

520
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,159
Speaker 10: to be the one to make those decisions. And so

521
00:24:28,760 --> 00:24:31,439
Speaker 10: you learn through experience. But that first one was a

522
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:32,400
Speaker 10: it was a blur.

523
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Speaker 3: But how important was it to make your debut in

524
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Speaker 3: a bowl game as opposed to starting your career during

525
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Speaker 3: the regular season. Did it matter?

526
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Speaker 9: You know? Did it matter?

527
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Speaker 10: I don't know what it would be like to not

528
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Speaker 10: start a career not in a bowl game, you know,

529
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Speaker 10: So it's hard for me to compare what that's like.

530
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Speaker 10: You know, we played Oklahoma State. We had time to

531
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Speaker 10: get ready for that opponent. You wanted to say, I mean,

532
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 10: you had transition, You're a new head coach, you had

533
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:06,479
Speaker 10: some guys that didn't play in the game. You had

534
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 10: to put you know who's playing. It was a unique

535
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 10: time and there's unique times and challenging times today, But

536
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 10: I know in that moment it was just a whirlwind

537
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 10: of different things trying to figure this thing out.

538
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Speaker 3: But you're navigating and this is NIL and transfer portal

539
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 3: and it's just not coaching football. Like, if it was

540
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:31,040
Speaker 3: just coaching football, you'd probably have a saban would probably

541
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,640
Speaker 3: still be coaching. But you throw in all the other

542
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 3: stuff here.

543
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you're leading the program. You have to be adaptable.

544
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 10: You're not just yeah, as you said, a football coach.

545
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,920
Speaker 10: You're a person that wears many hats and you have

546
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 10: to figure out what's important at that given time. And

547
00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 10: I think that's what leadership is is that if it's

548
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:54,360
Speaker 10: a recruiting hat, if it's an NIL hat, if it's

549
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 10: a football hat that you got to wear all those

550
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 10: different things. It's the ability to what went on, take

551
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 10: one off and really focus on what needs to be,

552
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 10: what needs to have your focus at that given moment.

553
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Speaker 3: Well, it's almost like practice or games are the best

554
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Speaker 3: part of all of this because you're not worrying about

555
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 3: all the other nonsense.

556
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you enjoy that.

557
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 10: That's probably the time you really get to be a

558
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 10: part of what attracted you to this profession, right, being

559
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 10: around the players, leading them, but also football, Like you

560
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 10: love the game of football and you love the competition,

561
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:36,280
Speaker 10: and you know Saturday is a reflection of how you.

562
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 9: Practice, and so yeah, you enjoy that probably the most.

563
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Speaker 3: We're talking to Marcus Freeman, a Notre Dame head coach

564
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 3: and of course hosting US. See we had Brady Quinn

565
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 3: on first hour. He said, your quarterback's best quarterback in

566
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Speaker 3: the country.

567
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Speaker 9: He said that, Yeah, I appreciate it. Man, he would know.

568
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 3: I mean, he's a quarterback. He says, he's played better

569
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 3: than everybody, anybody, And he said, but he said, the

570
00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 3: tape doesn't lie. Now, I know he's your quarterback, but

571
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,679
Speaker 3: tell me how you got him and what did you

572
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:08,560
Speaker 3: think you got when you brought him in.

573
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean it's a unique recruiting experience. Talking about

574
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 10: the grandson of Lloyd Carr. I actually played in some

575
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 10: games against Lloyd Carr, and you know, you have his

576
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 10: grandson that has interest in Notre Dame and it's real interest,

577
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 10: and then you're able to grow a relationship and convince

578
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 10: him and he felt that this was the best place

579
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 10: for him. And I knew at that moment he was different,

580
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,120
Speaker 10: right to a kid that grows up in ann Arbor,

581
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 10: Michigan has legacies of Michigan ties, and to say I

582
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 10: want to come to Notre Dame. That showed you he's

583
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 10: a leader. He doesn't follow trends. And then you get

584
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 10: him here, and we got him here for bowl practice

585
00:27:59,080 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 10: we're getting ready for.

586
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 9: I can't remember.

587
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 10: I think it was two years. I can't remember who

588
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 10: we were getting ready to play. But he comes in,

589
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 10: he's supposed to be in high school and he starts

590
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 10: practicing with us for a bowl game. And he was

591
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 10: a scout team quarterback. And I'll never forget, like there

592
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:15,040
Speaker 10: was a.

593
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,160
Speaker 3: Time, so he graduated early from high school.

594
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, and it was this new rule that if you

595
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 10: graduated early, you could come and practice with a college team,

596
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 10: but you couldn't participate in the bowl game. But I

597
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 10: just remember it was one time he gets yelled at

598
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 10: by our defense coordinator at the time for not throwing

599
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 10: the ball maybe somewhere he was supposed to throw it.

600
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 10: And to see him respond, most kids would melt right.

601
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 10: And to see him respond and say yes, sir, next

602
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 10: time and just go and go.

603
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Speaker 9: And I mean I was like, this kid should be

604
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 9: in high school.

605
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 10: He's different man. And now two years later, he has

606
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 10: a unique Yes, he's a really good quarterback. He's blessed

607
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 10: with great skills. He has a unique trait that not

608
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 10: many people have. And that's that competitive spirit, that's that

609
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 10: leadership mentality that he has, and he's pretty special.

610
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 3: The schedule, I don't know if you had any say

611
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 3: in the schedule to start the year. Did you have

612
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 3: any say in playing Miami at Miami.

613
00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:19,120
Speaker 10: Or I don't know when that game will schedule, But

614
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 10: I wouldn't have said no.

615
00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, but those are two tough games right out

616
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 3: of the right out of the gate. But can you

617
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 3: have good losses? You ever had a good loss?

618
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 10: No loss is good loss, Losing is awful. But I

619
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 10: always say be grateful for the pain of loss, because

620
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,560
Speaker 10: that pain is there to help you grow. It's uncomfortable.

621
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 10: It's no different than physically, when you have a cut

622
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 10: on your arm. You want to do things to stop

623
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 10: the pain. Right the same thing when you lose a game.

624
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 10: The pain is there for you to learn from it,

625
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 10: to get better and to make that pain go away.

626
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 10: So it stinks to lose, and nobody wants to lose,

627
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,480
Speaker 10: especially if you're a competitor. But you have to utilize

628
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 10: that pain to help you grow. And so yeah, it's

629
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 10: a good loss in that sense that the pain was

630
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 10: there to help us get better, and I believe we did.

631
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Speaker 3: What do you remember about being drafted by the Bears?

632
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 9: It was a lot.

633
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 10: The weight was always I always tell our guys, the

634
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,400
Speaker 10: weight's going to be longer than you expect, all right,

635
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 10: because you always hear a range of slots that you

636
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 10: can go. And it was a long couple of days

637
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 10: for me. And but when you get the call, it's

638
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 10: that childhood dream. I got drafted into the NFL and

639
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 10: then Lovey Smith was a head coach at the time,

640
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:50,920
Speaker 10: and they had Brian Urlacker and Lance Briggs and Jay

641
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 10: Cutler was a quarterback. I mean, you were living to

642
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 10: dream and then you get there and you say, oh,

643
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 10: this is a job. It's not as much a dream,

644
00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 10: it's a job. And it was a great experience, one

645
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 10: that I'll cherish. And uh, it was short. I wouldn't

646
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 10: I wouldn't. I wasn't there for too long. But it

647
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 10: was a great opportunity.

648
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 3: But when did you realize there was a difference between

649
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 3: you and Brian r Locker or Lancebrigg's playing linebacker.

650
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 10: Well, when you see Brian Urlacker, you realize right away, like, oh,

651
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 10: there's a big difference between us, you know. But the

652
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 10: knowledge that they had so how fast they played the

653
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 10: game because the knowledge they had clarity in terms of

654
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 10: what was being asked of them, And that was a

655
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 10: huge transition for me to learn a Tampa two defense

656
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:41,959
Speaker 10: something new and to try to play fast. Like everybody

657
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 10: you recruit, here's how I use it in college. Everybody

658
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 10: you recruit is really good in high school. Why because

659
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 10: they're playing fast, they have clarity and what they're being

660
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 10: asked to do. The guys that come here and can

661
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 10: learn the playbook and what they're being asked to do

662
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Speaker 10: and play with that clarity, the guys usually play earliest.

663
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Speaker 10: And so that's probably what I realize more anything, is that,

664
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Speaker 10: hey man, those guys understand the ins and outs of

665
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Speaker 10: everything they're being asked to do.

666
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Speaker 3: But you bring up something really interesting is we look

667
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 3: at guys who are quick and fast, but if you

668
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 3: know where you're going, you're even quicker and you're faster, right,

669
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Speaker 3: And I think that that's underrated. Sometimes we go, boy,

670
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 3: that guy's got God given ability. But if Urlocker knows

671
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Speaker 3: I have to go there and I'm already fast to

672
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Speaker 3: get there, I'm even faster, and that that's where they

673
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Speaker 3: disrupt plays.

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Speaker 10: On defense always, we have a saying clarity equals velocity,

675
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Speaker 10: and so the more clarity you have, the faster you're

676
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Speaker 10: going to be able to play. And that's what we

677
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 10: have to do as coaches, is create clarity for our

678
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Speaker 10: guys to go out there and play fast.

679
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Speaker 3: How far is your office from here?

680
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Speaker 9: A couple hundred yards?

681
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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, not too far. What is it like? Did

682
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Speaker 3: you ever walk this campus by yourself when you first

683
00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 3: got this job, like you can't help but see history?

684
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, but I don't know how that it impacts

685
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Speaker 3: me every time I walk this campus. But it's like

686
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Speaker 3: West Point when you're there, I mean, you're a whole

687
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Speaker 3: different world. Yeah, and there are very few campuses like

688
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Speaker 3: that with this history. But I didn't know if you

689
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Speaker 3: ever found yourself you're just walking the campus and really

690
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 3: letting it sink in of where you are.

691
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Speaker 9: I do it often. I still do it to this day.

692
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Speaker 10: I remember when I came here, when I was looking

693
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Speaker 10: at potentially being a defensive coordinator, and I was with

694
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Speaker 10: my wife, and I remember saying, this is the most

695
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Speaker 10: beautiful campus I've ever been on, and it was just perfect.

696
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Speaker 9: Right.

697
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Speaker 10: It's a hard way to describe it, but I still

698
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 10: do it to this day. I run on campus. I'll

699
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Speaker 10: walk early in the morning and sometimes go by the

700
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Speaker 10: Golden domeans And it's a reminder of the gratitude that

701
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Speaker 10: you have for this place, the history of this place,

702
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Speaker 10: the people that have come before you. And I think

703
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 10: for me, it's the responsibility to continue to make it better,

704
00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 10: to elevate it, and a It's a great response ability,

705
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 10: but a great reminder as you look around this place.

706
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Speaker 3: Would you cry when you got the head coaching John?

707
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Speaker 10: No, No, I didn't. That doesn't mean I wasn't emotional.

708
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Speaker 3: Your players were emotional. Yeah, I mean it's a great video.

709
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 3: That video is wonderful, But it's a testament to you.

710
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 3: It's a testament to they got the right guy.

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Speaker 9: I hope, So I hope, I hope. You know, I don't.

712
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Speaker 10: You know, I look at that moment and I was

713
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 10: just as excited to go greet them as the video

714
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Speaker 10: showed they were to greet me. I think it's it's

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Speaker 10: a reflection of a group of players and a coach

716
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Speaker 10: that have either earned trust or choose to trust each other,

717
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 10: right Like they trusted me to be the head coach,

718
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Speaker 10: and I trust that I'm going to help them reach

719
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Speaker 10: their goals, and so we're in this together like that.

720
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Speaker 10: That's how I view this thing, all right, that that, Yeah,

721
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Speaker 10: you're the head coach.

722
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 9: You have to lead, you have to.

723
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Speaker 10: Have the vision and the plan and the process. But

724
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 10: we're in this together. We succeed together, and we have

725
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 10: difficult moments. We have those together and we all have

726
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 10: to own it.

727
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Speaker 3: Good luck on Saturday. I appreciate gat to talk to

728
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Speaker 3: you again. Appreciate It's always do you want to hit

729
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Speaker 3: paul Do you want to hit Paulie again?

730
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Speaker 2: It's your's your home getting tempting, you know, it's very tempting.

731
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Speaker 3: When's the last time you hit somebody? I can practice?

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Speaker 9: Do you ever? I used my years Deven's coordinator.

733
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Speaker 10: Probably was the last time I put on the little

734
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Speaker 10: little chest pad.

735
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Speaker 9: And let them hit me.

736
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Speaker 10: They you know, they would try to go a little

737
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Speaker 10: bit extra, but you know, with with with four boys

738
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Speaker 10: at home. Sometimes you you know, there's wrestlers, there's football players.

739
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Speaker 10: We have some pretty good matchup.

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Speaker 3: You don't want to mess with the wrestler. You don't

741
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 3: want to mess with the wrestler.

742
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Speaker 9: I don't mess with eighteen year old. But the twelve,

743
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:09,280
Speaker 9: the ten, and a six year old I still take down. Yeah,

744
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 9: I can still take them.

745
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Speaker 1: He's Marcus Freeman. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

746
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,840
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747
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,960
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748
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,160
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749
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Speaker 3: I forgot about this, but our next guest. He's the

750
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Speaker 3: athletic director here at Notre Dame Pete Babaqua. I think

751
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Speaker 3: he was my boss at NBC Ecock at one point,

752
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Speaker 3: although I never saw him. I don't know if we

753
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 3: had any communication. Yes, Paul, that's the best kind of boss. Yeah,

754
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Speaker 3: but I just remembered he worked at NBC Sports and

755
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 3: ran NBC Sports, but I didn't come in contact with it. Yeah, Paul.

756
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Speaker 3: Then he went into the portal and Notre Dame picked up.

757
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 3: Yeah they did. But the nil I mean, he's done

758
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Speaker 3: a really good job here as we welcome the Notre

759
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Speaker 3: Dame Athletic Director Pete Babakwa. Thanks guys, thankful whoa Okay,

760
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 3: what have we got? We got gifts here?

761
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 12: Our new our new hockey jersey.

762
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Speaker 3: Okay, so this is the unveiling of the hockey jersey

763
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Speaker 3: that will be on display.

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Speaker 12: Wow tonight we're gonna We're gonna wear it tonight. We

765
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Speaker 12: play tonight again against St. Lawrence. We had a nice victory.

766
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Speaker 12: I think a bunch of.

767
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Speaker 3: You guys were there. They were there.

768
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Speaker 12: I had a nice victory last night at ate too,

769
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Speaker 12: and hopefully we can keep it going.

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Speaker 3: That is awesome.

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Speaker 12: But also I have some of your old performance reviews.

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Speaker 12: You do, yeah, sit down and talk about that.

773
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Speaker 9: Wait?

774
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Speaker 3: Were you my boss at some point?

775
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Speaker 12: I was? Yeah?

776
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Speaker 3: Yeah, But why didn't I talk to you? You know,

777
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 3: I was busy, and why didn't you talk to me?

778
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 12: I we talked.

779
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 3: Did you think I did a good job?

780
00:37:46,719 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 12: I thought you did a really good job?

781
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah? Why am I not there anymore?

782
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 12: Uh? There's there's new bosses.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Great to talk to you. And I mentioned this. I

785
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 3: don't know if I'm overstating it. You probably would think

786
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 3: I am. But I look at Sank and Patiti and

787
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,919
Speaker 3: I look at you as you probably the three most

788
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:12,399
Speaker 3: important people in college football, the SEC Commissioner, Big ten

789
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Speaker 3: and you here at Notre Dame, and you take over

790
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 3: for Jack Swarbrick, who was one of the most influential

791
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Speaker 3: people we probably had with this sport. Sometime, do you

792
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 3: feel like you guys are the gatekeepers here and if so,

793
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Speaker 3: what goes along with that?

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Speaker 12: Well, I would tell you, first of all, it's not me.

795
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Speaker 12: It's Notre Dame. I mean Notre Dame as are in

796
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 12: that position. You talk about the history of Notre Dame football,

797
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 12: the power Notre Dame football, the power of the brand.

798
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 12: I'm the caretaker of that, you know, and I couldn't

799
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 12: be more honored or feel more fortunate to be in

800
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 12: this position. And I take that responsibility very very seriously.

801
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:53,360
Speaker 12: That I'm in that room having those conversations with Greg Sanky,

802
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 12: Tody Petiti, Jimmy Phillips at the ACC, Brett Yormark at

803
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 12: the Big Twelve, and others, and you know, we have

804
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 12: a very definite point of view, We have a perspective.

805
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 12: What Notre Dame believes in. Being independent in the space,

806
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 12: as you've mentioned in the past, is certainly a unique

807
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 12: attribute to the position we hold in college football, and

808
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 12: it's a great privilege to be in that room. I

809
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 12: love being in that room. I love being a part

810
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:23,240
Speaker 12: of those conversations, and we're hall hopefully united and aligned

811
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Speaker 12: in certainly doing what's best. A commissioner has to always

812
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 12: have the perspective of what's best for his or her conference.

813
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 12: I have to have the perspective of what's best for

814
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 12: Notre Dame. But I think we all hope to share

815
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 12: a common ground of what's best for the future health

816
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 12: of college football.

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00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 3: Okay, but what is that? There have been different models

818
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 3: that have been put out there, and I just it

819
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 3: feels like it's inevitable we're going to get to an

820
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,480
Speaker 3: NFL or Premier League type of format. Could you get

821
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 3: sixty teams fifty forty teams and almost secede from the NCAA.

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00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 12: Yeah, Dan, there's the concept of this super league. Are

823
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 12: there twenty four to thirty teams that extricate themselves from

824
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 12: the college football space and create a mini NFL? I,

825
00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:04,520
Speaker 12: for one, I think that's a horrible mistake. College football

826
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 12: is not the NFL. We shouldn't be. The NFL were

827
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 12: something different. We're something that's special, the crowds, the alumni bases,

828
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Speaker 12: the fact that these are eighteen to twenty one year

829
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Speaker 12: olds that change and graduate. There's a power to that.

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Speaker 12: And I think in trying to replicate the NFL model,

831
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Speaker 12: where there might be some more revenue there, particularly from

832
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 12: a media standpoint, I think we'll ruin what's special. We

833
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,760
Speaker 12: won't look like the NFL, will look like a small version,

834
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Speaker 12: a compromise version of the NFL, and we'll lose what's

835
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Speaker 12: so special about what's going to happen here tomorrow night.

836
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Speaker 12: When you have two great story programs from great schools

837
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 12: coming together, this wonderful rivalry. You know, you have the

838
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 12: Notre Dame USC's the Ohio State Michigan's. That's what makes

839
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Speaker 12: college football so special.

840
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 3: But we're losing these rivalries. We may lose USC Notre Dame.

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Speaker 12: Well, I would say, and I can't speak for USC,

842
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 12: but in the converse we've had I think both schools,

843
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 12: both administrations are committed to keeping this series alive. We've

844
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 12: had a lot of positive conversations with USC. They're continuing

845
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 12: literally around the clock. My hope, and I think USC

846
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 12: shares this, and I know they share it. We want

847
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 12: to keep this series going. It's so special. It's ay,

848
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Speaker 12: I'll be the first two a Minute's great for Notre Dame.

849
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 12: I think it's great for USC, and maybe most importantly,

850
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 12: I think it's great for college football. This is one

851
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 12: of those rivalries that defined college football, define the sport,

852
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 12: the greatest intersectional rivalry that there is. And I think

853
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 12: the public deserves it. I think the college fans deserve it.

854
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 12: All the pageantry of a Notre Dame USC game. You

855
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 12: think about the importance of this game over the history

856
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 12: of college football, how many national championships were influenced and

857
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 12: determined the Heisman Trophy winners. And I understand, you know,

858
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 12: with the Big Ten, the conference schedules, you know, more

859
00:41:55,239 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 12: conference matchups, that's tough, that's difficult travel for USC now

860
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 12: that they're in the Big Ten. But you know, I

861
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 12: just think college football deserves it. I know we feel

862
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 12: that way. I know USC feels that way. And you know,

863
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 12: for us, we're lucky that we have a long list

864
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Speaker 12: of really prominent teams that want to play us. They

865
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 12: want to do home and homes, they want us to

866
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 12: come to their stadiums, they want to come here to

867
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 12: Notre Dame and you know that's great, and that's a

868
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 12: fortunate position to be in. And that's the power of

869
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 12: Notre Dame and the power of the program under coach Freeman.

870
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 12: But there's something really special about Notre Dame USC, and

871
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 12: no matter how either team season is going, anything can happen.

872
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 12: You can make a team a more difficult road to

873
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,279
Speaker 12: a national championship, you can have an upset. It's just

874
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 12: a wonderful history there that I hope we don't lose.

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00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So why are we at this point where

876
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 3: we have to negotiate around the clock to keep this going.

877
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 3: If everybody understands the beauty of this rivalry, the importance

878
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 3: of this rivalry.

879
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 12: I think it's scheduling and now the Big Ten schedule

880
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 12: and the nine games that they play. When you look

881
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 12: at our schedule into the future and we're talking about

882
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 12: moments in the calendar month that makes sense for us

883
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 12: and for USC. I think there's no secret that USC

884
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 12: would like to play our game earlier in the season.

885
00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 12: So I'm working hand in hand with somebody who's so

886
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 12: important to our program, Ron Palace, who's a name everybody knows,

887
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 12: and Ron is kind of mapping out what our future

888
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:24,240
Speaker 12: looks like twenty six, twenty seven, well into the thirties,

889
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,920
Speaker 12: and where could we position this game. So it's a

890
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 12: win win for us when we go out there and

891
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 12: when USC comes here and visits. I'm hopeful. I'm optimistic.

892
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 12: Nothing is finalized, but I'm optimistic that we'll get something done.

893
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 3: He's a Pete Bubaqua Notre Dame athletic director. But I

894
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,120
Speaker 3: understand from USC's perspective, it feels like Notre Dame may

895
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 3: need USC more than USC needs Notre Dame because Notre

896
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 3: Dame has a tough Big ten schedule and they don't

897
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 3: want to jeopardize, you know, another loss, because if you

898
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 3: have three losses, you're not going to make like tomorrow's

899
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 3: an elimination game. It feels like for Notre Dame.

900
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it's you know, we you know, we

901
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 12: have a tough schedule. We opened up with two very

902
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 12: tough competitive games, obviously with Miami, who's now I think

903
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,479
Speaker 12: number two in the country in Texas A and m

904
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 12: We lost to Miami by three points. There in our

905
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 12: opening game, we lost to Texas A and m here

906
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,359
Speaker 12: by a point. Then you know, we've had this great

907
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 12: stretch of four victories in a row. But no, hey,

908
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 12: no doubt about it. If we want to make the CFP,

909
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 12: and we do, we got to go win tomorrow night.

910
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 12: We know that our team knows that. Marcus knows that.

911
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 12: But I'll push back on you. I think this game

912
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 12: is just as important for USC as it is for

913
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 12: Notre Dame, and just as important for college football. And

914
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 12: if you're USC, you want this tradition. You want to

915
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,640
Speaker 12: play Notre Dame. You want Notre Dame to come out

916
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 12: to the coliseum. You know, just like when USC's here,

917
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 12: we'll pack the house the South Bend. There'll be one

918
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 12: hundred more thousand people coming into South Bend, even people

919
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 12: who can't get in the stadium, just to be a

920
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 12: part of the pageantry in the atmosphere. Well, that happens

921
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,319
Speaker 12: when we go out to the coliseum. It's packed. The

922
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 12: surrounding area has packed. It has such a benefit for

923
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 12: the campus, for the community. And when you take two

924
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 12: great historic brands from wonderful schools and you're able to

925
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 12: have this great contest on the football field year in

926
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:13,320
Speaker 12: and year out, there's tremendous value for the entire eCos.

927
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:14,680
Speaker 3: Well, I don't want to lose it, but I don't

928
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 3: want to lose Notre Dame in Michigan.

929
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 12: Well, I would want to. I'd love to play Michigan,

930
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 12: you know, And I think that's something we're going to

931
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 12: work toward. I think that's one of you know, I

932
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 12: think back to my time here. I graduated in nineteen

933
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 12: ninety three.

934
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 3: If you join the Big Ten, then you get to

935
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 3: play these teams. Yeah, but we just letting me know.

936
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 12: I hear you and the Big Ten.

937
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 3: Hey, no, there's was it ever close?

938
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 12: Big Ten's a wonderful conference. I don't think it was

939
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 12: ever close. You know, there's the Big Ten, the SEC,

940
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 12: the Big twelve, the ACC. As you know, we're a

941
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 12: member of the ACC for twenty four of our twenty

942
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 12: six sports or Big ten in hockey, and obviously independent

943
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 12: in football. I think it's a great time to be independent.

944
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 12: And we're sure we're a unicorn. But we have a

945
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 12: wonderful relationship with NBC thirty five years in counting. We

946
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 12: have the luxury and we're fortunate to schedule great teams.

947
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 12: Think about this year we had Miami, Texas, A and

948
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 12: m we play USC. Going into the future, we have Alabama,

949
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 12: we have Texas We have some others that we're close

950
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 12: to announcing, and I love the fact that the freedom

951
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 12: we have from playing teams that make sense, playing in

952
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 12: areas that we want to play in, whether it's going

953
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 12: to New York City, going out to Los Angeles, playing

954
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 12: in the Yankee Stadium next year, opening up the season

955
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 12: in Lambeau against Wisconsin, going to Ireland, thinking hey, can

956
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 12: we go play a game in Mexico City. You have

957
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 12: the luxury of that when you're independent. But to be independent,

958
00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 12: you have to be good, and we know that, and

959
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 12: that's an obligation, that's a responsibility.

960
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 3: We have to be good.

961
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 12: We have to stay relevant. We have to knock on

962
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:54,720
Speaker 12: that national championship door year in and year out. Because

963
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 12: to stay independent, we have to be impossible to ignore.

964
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 12: You have to be a uniform but you don't want

965
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,520
Speaker 12: you can't let the unicorn get starved. And that's tremendous

966
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 12: pressure on the program, on our athletic department, on Coach Freeman.

967
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 12: But it's pressure that we welcome and I think we

968
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 12: thrive on.

969
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 3: If you had the deciding vote of expanding the playoffs

970
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 3: from twelve to let's say sixteen.

971
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 12: One hundred percent answer in my opinion, sixteen teams is

972
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 12: the way we should go. Five automatic qualifiers, one each

973
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 12: for the power for conference champions, one for the highest

974
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 12: CHI five G five champion, eleven at large. Prove it

975
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 12: on the field. If we're lucky enough to be in,

976
00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 12: we're in. If because we're independent, we have three losses

977
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:39,799
Speaker 12: or four losses and we're out, we're out. I think

978
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 12: there's almost unanimity in that feeling, and I hope that's

979
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 12: where we end up. I feel passionate about that. I

980
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 12: think it's the best thing for college football. I think

981
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 12: it's the best thing for the future college football. Look

982
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 12: at the top ten this year, look at the different

983
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:58,919
Speaker 12: teams in there. Look at the success that Texas Tech

984
00:47:59,000 --> 00:47:59,480
Speaker 12: is having.

985
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 3: You want that.

986
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 12: You want every team to wake up at the end

987
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,000
Speaker 12: of the summer and they as they go into their

988
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,279
Speaker 12: first game and say, hey, if we do it, if

989
00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 12: we get it done, if we go twelve and zero,

990
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 12: if we go eleven and one, if we schedule tough

991
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 12: opponents and have a strong strength to schedule, we can

992
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 12: earn our way in there. Nobody wants a head start.

993
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 12: That's not the way to do it. We want to

994
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 12: prove that we can identify a true national championship, a

995
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,359
Speaker 12: team that's earned in on the field. And I feel

996
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 12: very strongly.

997
00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:29,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, but can we lock in sixteen? We got to

998
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,160
Speaker 3: twelve and went we were already going, well, we got

999
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 3: to get to fourteen or sixteen?

1000
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1001
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 12: I think what I love about I think the move

1002
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:38,600
Speaker 12: from four to twelve was terrific and smart. I think

1003
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 12: the move from twelve to sixteen brings additional teams in.

1004
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 12: Obviously the four additional teams, it creates those four additional

1005
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 12: narratives around the country, brings those fan bases in, brings

1006
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,320
Speaker 12: in other geographies. Yet there's that delicate balance that I

1007
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 12: think it achieves and maintains of identifying a true national

1008
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 12: championship but protecting the integrity and the importance of that

1009
00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 12: of the regular season. And there's no sport where the

1010
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 12: regular season games are more important than they are in

1011
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 12: college football. Here we are in Week seven and we

1012
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 12: have a game tomorrow night that for us will determine

1013
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,520
Speaker 12: whether we can make the playoffs or whether we're out

1014
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 12: on the outside looking in. That doesn't happen in other sports,

1015
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 12: and that's the beauty of college football. That's why there's

1016
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 12: so much passion around these games, and you mentioned games

1017
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 12: this weekend that are so important, teams that can't afford

1018
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 12: to lose again, teams that need a quality win. That's

1019
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 12: the beauty of college football, and we can't lose. That

1020
00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 12: be a shame if we lost that.

1021
00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:35,880
Speaker 3: Do you have uniform approval?

1022
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 12: I have uniform input, input input. So you know Marcus

1023
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 12: who's probably one of the two or three most stylish

1024
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 12: men in America, he has a lot of input. We

1025
00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 12: tend to defer to him. We have color combinations that

1026
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,520
Speaker 12: we like, and then he works with our very talented

1027
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,920
Speaker 12: team and with our partner under Armour to put the

1028
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,400
Speaker 12: uniforms out there. But I get a sense that's a

1029
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 12: leading question. Are you thinking about a uniform that we

1030
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 12: haven't debuted yet?

1031
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 3: No, I'm just curious. Is there anything like a bold

1032
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 3: move that you would make for a one off?

1033
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 12: Well, you think about our Shamrock series. We've had some

1034
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 12: really creative uniforms.

1035
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 3: You think when we and I love the helmet with

1036
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 3: the shamrock on. Yeah, I think that.

1037
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 12: We we see though the gold helmet as Sakra say, Okay,

1038
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,760
Speaker 12: I don't think we're gonna monkey around with the helmets anymore.

1039
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 12: That gold helmet is as good as it gets. I'm biased.

1040
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:30,759
Speaker 12: I think it's the best helmet in college football. But

1041
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 12: you think about when we went to Yankee Stadium for

1042
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 12: the Shamrock Series a few years back with the pinstripes,

1043
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 12: what we did last year when we went to Yankee

1044
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 12: Stadium for the Army game. What we're going to do

1045
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 12: next year at Lambeau, what we did a couple of

1046
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,120
Speaker 12: weeks ago in the all green uniforms. I love when

1047
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 12: we use the white on white with the gold helmets

1048
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 12: when we're away. So we're gonna, you know, we work

1049
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 12: with under armour. We want to change it up. The

1050
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 12: fans love it.

1051
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 3: But you would do that the leper cun on the front.

1052
00:50:55,520 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 12: Like you can't put the leper count on for you

1053
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 12: need the number, but you can't new Ae No, you

1054
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 12: will see that are we have the sports specific leprechauns.

1055
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 12: We debuted the football one that that you guys that

1056
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 12: we've been wearing a few weeks ago, and the fans

1057
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 12: love it. Coach Freeman loves it. We have the hockey

1058
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 12: leprechan We're going to do that in more sports. You

1059
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,800
Speaker 12: will see that football leprechaun start to move into certain

1060
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,960
Speaker 12: positions on some of our football uniforms, but unlike the

1061
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 12: hockey sweater, it won't be on the front or the back.

1062
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 3: Can you give me an idea of how much merchandise

1063
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 3: you guys do well, I would tell you we did

1064
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 3: a lot yesterday. You know that's a great a two

1065
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 3: story got a bookstore full of merchant. It's like saxvict

1066
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 3: Avenue yess like this has to be. You must do

1067
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 3: more merchandise than any other program in America.

1068
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 12: I think you know, we're lucky. We have such a great, passionate, national,

1069
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 12: international fan base that Notre Dame logo. Whether you're in

1070
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 12: South Bend, Indiana, or New York City or Beijing, people

1071
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 12: know what it is. It means something. And then to

1072
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 12: the credit of the university, into the credit of our partners.

1073
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 12: Like under Armor, we come up with, you know, really

1074
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:07,839
Speaker 12: interesting designs that appeal to people. And then, as I say,

1075
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 12: you put it on Marcus Freeman, put him on television

1076
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 12: for three and a half hours on a Saturday afternoon

1077
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:18,040
Speaker 12: or a Saturday night, and everybody wants what what Marcus wears. Now,

1078
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,400
Speaker 12: the unfortunate thing is not everybody looks as good as

1079
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,120
Speaker 12: as Marcus does you.

1080
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,760
Speaker 3: Guys do your results may vary? Can you get the Pope?

1081
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 12: He's a cell sider, he's a south side everybody, but

1082
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:29,719
Speaker 12: he is a villainovgrad.

1083
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:31,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they don't have football.

1084
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,040
Speaker 12: They don't have football. We're we think the pope's a fan.

1085
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 12: We are Provost John McGreevey and our president.

1086
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 3: Maybe you know, fighting arms and he's wearing the hockey.

1087
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 12: A little blue and gold and green. Every nice something

1088
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 12: to work on for sure.

1089
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 3: Thanks for having us hosting us people here behind the

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Speaker 3: scenes did a wonderful job. Could not have been more accommodating.

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Speaker 3: And it is. And I don't know if an honorary

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Speaker 3: degree is like in play now, but I mean I'll

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Speaker 3: throw it out there.

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Speaker 12: We well, we we're thrilled here here. I love the

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Speaker 12: show personally, know that. That's why I've all take it

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Speaker 12: up with our president father Bob.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, fair enough. I mean a graduated from

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Speaker 3: Dayton so maybe Flyers great school. Yeah, maybe like a

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Speaker 3: graduate degree.

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Speaker 12: You know, so where you can come back and get

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Speaker 12: on your avanced degree.

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Speaker 3: A doctorate, you know something like that. Thank you, Pete,

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Speaker 3: you well notre Dame Athletic Director