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Speaker 2: On this Monday, Dan and the Dan Ete Dan Patrick
Speaker 2: Show come on in stay awhile feeling refreshed after battling
Speaker 2: whatever I've battled over the last three weeks. I didn't
Speaker 2: realize this, but Seton said, yeah, you would turn your
Speaker 2: mic off and then you'd be coughing, so all we
Speaker 2: would see is your mouth there. So I got to
Speaker 2: see the show back, and the visual is not very good.
Speaker 2: You would think that our director, the Eyes and Ears
Speaker 2: Mario would spare the nation that look of me hacking
Speaker 2: up a lung. But I'm better than ever now. Went
Speaker 2: to the doctor's office, Uh not, the emergency room. Just
Speaker 2: went in and I got to see the doctor, gave
Speaker 2: me some meds and Rarren ready to go. Yes, Todd,
Speaker 2: did you ever get.
Speaker 3: An official diagnosis? Is it bronchitis? Just a really bad call?
Speaker 3: Do they give it a name or anything?
Speaker 2: I hold that it was strap and then it developed
Speaker 2: into or kind of morphed into flu like stuff, and
Speaker 2: he just said, you know, you're lucky to be alive. Yeah, yeah, warrior,
Speaker 2: that's what they were saying. Man as I left. You know,
Speaker 2: the doctors all got around and they were like, oh
Speaker 2: my god, what a warrior hashtag.
Speaker 4: Warrior kept the tonsils in And there's no no.
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, I still have my tonsils. But
Speaker 2: see that's one of those things like you know, Freddie
Speaker 2: Mercury didn't change his teeth because he thought that would
Speaker 2: change the way he he sung. And uh, I don't
Speaker 2: want I don't want to take my tonsils out because
Speaker 2: it may affect my voice. So I mean, not on
Speaker 2: the same level as Freddie Mercury. But Freddy never got
Speaker 2: his teeth fixed because he didn't want it to change
Speaker 2: his voice.
Speaker 4: Is there a tonsil vocal cord connection? That's a I'm
Speaker 4: not aware of that.
Speaker 2: But no, doctor, what is right there?
Speaker 4: It's in the Sinner. Yeah, I never knew that.
Speaker 5: That is.
Speaker 3: I was going to get my tonsils ow when I
Speaker 3: was a kid because I would always get strapped through
Speaker 3: and I didn't think for a second, you know, I
Speaker 3: was can affect my singing voice?
Speaker 2: No, it was gonna be about me but no, no,
Speaker 2: go ahead, go ahead. I was just curious, thank you. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I still have my tonsils there. I didn't want
Speaker 2: to get them out.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, according to WebMD. Inflamed tonsils can directly affect
Speaker 6: your voice, both short term and long term, and it's
Speaker 6: a byproduct or a side effect of removing your tonsils
Speaker 6: can't affect your voice, usually short term, not long term.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, all right, well.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 2: It's got to hold up for at least two and
Speaker 2: a half more years after that, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6: Get Tommy John, get like a Volunteerly get Tommy John
Speaker 6: for the throat or something if they have it.
Speaker 2: Tonsul John until John John. Okay, it's our too, best
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Speaker 2: director Pete Mvaqua. He'll join us and He's probably still
Speaker 2: a little heated here as they didn't get in and
Speaker 2: they decided to opt out of a bowl game. Rick
Speaker 2: Neuheisel covers college football CBS. He'll stop by as well.
Speaker 2: You got pro football tonight, Eagles at the Chargers. The
Speaker 2: Eagles are favored by two and a half. I thought
Speaker 2: it was a weekend of teams that lost, stealing the headlines.
Speaker 2: The Colts, certainly with Daniel Jones, I don't think they're
Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs because Jacksonville's playing well. And
Speaker 2: I look at the final month of the season and
Speaker 2: you've got they're at the Seahawks, they host the Niners,
Speaker 2: they host the Jags, they're at the Texans, and Riley Leonard,
Speaker 2: former Notre Dame quarterback, is your starting quarterback now. And
Speaker 2: even with Daniel Jones, they probably weren't going to make
Speaker 2: the playoffs. You also had the Chiefs losing last night.
Speaker 2: We had Chris Simms on Chris Simms last hour said
Speaker 2: that he thought the Chiefs were done done. Here's Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes on the Chiefs going forward on fourth down.
Speaker 8: Country believes in us. We executed on that in that
Speaker 8: same situation several times this season and they did a
Speaker 8: good job of passing the crossers. I wish I got
Speaker 8: like I said, I wish I got to Rashid a
Speaker 8: little bit earlier, or if I could have bought a
Speaker 8: little bit more time. In hindsight, probably hit try to
Speaker 8: hit trap over the top of the defender. But I
Speaker 8: mean he made a good play. They they made good
Speaker 8: play today. But I'll never question the decision to go
Speaker 8: for it because I believe in the offense and who
Speaker 8: we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think their chances are like sixteen percent something
Speaker 2: like that. But you know that Texans defense is great.
Speaker 2: I mean, we throw that word out Texans. Nobody's going
Speaker 2: to want to face that defense.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 2: If the offense and c. J. Stroud was back last night,
Speaker 2: if they can prove twenty one points, that feels like
Speaker 2: that's enough for that team to win. The Bengals lose,
Speaker 2: the Bengals should have won. The Bengals against that Bill's
Speaker 2: defense did whatever they wanted to do Burrow back to
Speaker 2: back interceptions. The Buccaneers lost. I said this last week.
Speaker 2: Usually the team that is the lesser of the two
Speaker 2: usually wins these weird games in the NFC sound and
Speaker 2: so I wasn't surprised when I tune in and the
Speaker 2: Saints were winning and they ended up winning that game
Speaker 2: against Tampa. It's just kind of crazy, and it's always
Speaker 2: it feels like it's always been that way. The Ravens losing,
Speaker 2: I thought to, you know, having control of the ball
Speaker 2: two steps almost a third step called a touchdown, that
Speaker 2: would be enough. But it wasn't. And here's John harball
Speaker 2: on the Isaiah Likely touchdown wiped off the board.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the explanation was a third foot didn't get down
Speaker 10: before the ball came out. That's what they said. I
Speaker 10: think to play with. I think the Aaron Rodgers play.
Speaker 10: I mean, just coming a rules here. It's not an
Speaker 10: officiating issue. It comes from New York. But you know,
Speaker 10: when you when you when you're making a catch, you
Speaker 10: have to you have to you have to survive the ground.
Speaker 10: You know, he didn't survive the ground. He's not he's
Speaker 10: not down by contact. He was catching. He was catching
Speaker 10: the ball on the way down with another person. So
Speaker 10: you you got to make a catch there and survive
Speaker 10: the ground. I don't know why it was the rule
Speaker 10: of where it was on that one. So all those things, well,
Speaker 10: I'm sure we'll they'll explain to us, but they had
Speaker 10: plenty of time to look at and they're the ones
Speaker 10: who are the experts on the rules.
Speaker 4: So that's how it works.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because they called it a touchdown and then I thought, okay,
Speaker 2: that's gonna be hard to overturn. At first, I thought, okay,
Speaker 2: he's got control, and then it's two steps, and that
Speaker 2: it is a football move because the football move is
Speaker 2: to keep it away from the defender. That to me
Speaker 2: was the football move. But you got the Steelers, they survive,
Speaker 2: picking up the win, and you know, a much needed
Speaker 2: win at that. The Dolphins are still kind of hanging
Speaker 2: in there. You know, they didn't fire Mike McDaniel. They
Speaker 2: won five of six. I know they beat the Jets.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. You're still winning these games. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's enough for Mike McDaniel to keep his job,
Speaker 2: but I do find it interesting to keep an eye
Speaker 2: on the Browns Titans game was probably not on my
Speaker 2: bingo card, as they like to say, but I was
Speaker 2: certainly entertained by it because I wanted to see how
Speaker 2: Cam Wore did against Miles Garrett, and I wanted to
Speaker 2: see how Shador Sanders did and in a home game
Speaker 2: against a lesser opponent or opponent that's maybe equal to
Speaker 2: them and putting up good numbers. And he did, and
Speaker 2: he played well. But you know the avalanche of people
Speaker 2: and social media that you know they sending in an
Speaker 2: email or a tweet about should or scent. What are
Speaker 2: you going to say about Shaud or sending? I don't
Speaker 2: have any There's no real opinion, it no negativity. I
Speaker 2: just said, give him a chance to play. I told
Speaker 2: you he'd start a game at some point this season. Good.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they have. You beat the Titans
Speaker 2: at home, but there is progress. It feels like he
Speaker 2: gives them more options. They're expanding the playbook from what
Speaker 2: I'm told, and good it gives them a boost. It's exciting.
Speaker 2: You still lost the game with a idiotic two point conversion,
Speaker 2: So there's positives there now. Deshaun Watson's planning on coming
Speaker 2: back next next year. I don't know if he ever
Speaker 2: plays for them. And you got to have a top
Speaker 2: five draft pick, are you going to take a quarterback?
Speaker 2: Are you sold on Shadoor Sanders? And if they are good,
Speaker 2: it's a good story, Yes.
Speaker 6: Paulie, that coaching staff for the Browns should be embarrassed
Speaker 6: how they finish that game.
Speaker 9: That.
Speaker 6: I mean, if there's a worst the coaching staff lost
Speaker 6: that your quarterback justic you seven plays eighty yards, you
Speaker 6: remove him from the field for your two point conversion,
Speaker 6: and you do a direct snap to a rookie running
Speaker 6: back on a complicated play. That's irresponsible.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, we didn't even do a poll question
Speaker 2: for the first hour. At least I didn't acknowledge that.
Speaker 2: Todd's here, Seaton, Marv, Paula, yours truly in the back room, guys,
Speaker 2: all right, seton what kind of pole question or what
Speaker 2: did you put up in the first hour? Yeah, we
Speaker 2: got three of them up right now.
Speaker 11: Notre dame, your options are got hosed, will change the playoffs?
Speaker 11: Being petty or all of the above. Right now, it
Speaker 11: is a tie between is being petty and all of
Speaker 11: the above.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wish they would have played in a bowl game,
Speaker 2: but I understand why they didn't because they had nothing
Speaker 2: to gain.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 2: Let's say they blow out BYU and the Pop Tart Bowl.
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean anything, and I believe that game would
Speaker 2: be on ABC. I think that's what I was told.
Speaker 6: Long history of ABC and the pop tart powle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, yes, legendary, legendary tradition. But I get it,
Speaker 2: But I wish they would have still played. Now, nobody
Speaker 2: is upset that I was State in Kansas State aren't
Speaker 2: playing in their bowl games either. They got fined five
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars each, I believe, But Notre Dame is
Speaker 2: not in a conference, so Notre Dame decided we're not playing.
Speaker 2: But you know, Iowa State loses their head coach and
Speaker 2: maybe they decide. But once again, I would just ask
Speaker 2: my players, do you guys want to play? Yes, Todd,
Speaker 2: should Notre.
Speaker 3: Dame care that this could come across as sow losers
Speaker 3: and or afraid of the downside of losing to BYU.
Speaker 3: Not that they're afraid of playing BYU, but those are
Speaker 3: things that a lot of people feel.
Speaker 4: Unless you're a big Notre Dames fan.
Speaker 3: I think most people that are neutral think that they
Speaker 3: look like they're taking the ball and going home and
Speaker 3: they don't want any part of possibly losing to the Cougar.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll talk find out in ten minutes when we
Speaker 2: talk to their athletic director on making this decision. What
Speaker 2: other pole questions did you have for the first time
Speaker 2: re season?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I also got up there the Chiefs playoff chances
Speaker 11: are dead on life support or alive.
Speaker 2: And well, well you did predict your your wild prediction,
Speaker 2: your hot prediction, your crazy prediction, the Chiefs would not
Speaker 2: make the playoffs. Closer and closer. Yes, it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 2: Seton said the Chiefs would not make the playoffs June third.
Speaker 2: I believe not that.
Speaker 11: I'm okay, yeah, somewhere in that vicinity all what was
Speaker 11: the other pole question that you had? We just put
Speaker 11: this one up there right now. Worst loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens.
Speaker 2: I'd say the Chiefs because Vegas had them as one
Speaker 2: of the favorites to still win the Super Bowl and
Speaker 2: now looks like they're done. Buccaneers can still win that division,
Speaker 2: Ravens can still win that division. I think the Colts
Speaker 2: losing and losing their quarterback and losing one of the
Speaker 2: real good stories this year, I mean, that's a that's
Speaker 2: a triple loss there, it feels like. But I would
Speaker 2: say the Chiefs because bigger picture, the Chiefs out of
Speaker 2: that group could still win the Super Bowl, or at
Speaker 2: least they would be viewed as one of the favorites
Speaker 2: if they were in the playoff picture.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Pauling and Daniel Jones is an unrestricted free agent.
Speaker 6: A month ago, he was on the roll and would
Speaker 6: probably got one of those mid levels Sam Darnold three years,
Speaker 6: one hundred million dollar contracts going forward from the Colts
Speaker 6: or other And now his career is completely in flux, completely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's not going to be ready to go
Speaker 2: next season. To start next season. You got the Anthony
Speaker 2: Richardson situation. That's a mess. You got Riley Leonard as
Speaker 2: your backup now starting quarterback there that was. That was
Speaker 2: an expensive injury for Daniel Jones. I mean, that's the
Speaker 2: business side of this. If he stays healthy, let's say
Speaker 2: they do get into the playoffs, he's gonna get a
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollar deal because they don't want Anthony
Speaker 2: Richardson as their starter, at least not now, and Daniel
Speaker 2: Jones would have been the de facto Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: he played pretty well, which he did, He started out
Speaker 2: pretty well, but he's playing with a broken fibula now.
Speaker 2: I don't know if he should be out there with
Speaker 2: a broken fibula. Of all my injuries and surgeries. I've
Speaker 2: never had a broken fibula or torn achilles, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if one can lead the other. But you
Speaker 2: would think your quarterback out there with a broken fibula
Speaker 2: should not be out there with a broken fibula and
Speaker 2: then he blows out his achilles. But Riley Leonard is
Speaker 2: now you're starting quarterback. Now you've got to get a
Speaker 2: backup quarterback in there as well, and the schedules really
Speaker 2: tough the final month of the season. Chris and Syracuse
Speaker 2: Good Morning, Chris, Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 12: Hey, thanks Dan, ye I got a best and a
Speaker 12: couple of commis to threats him. My best to one
Speaker 12: of the original dan Ciples in Dan Nation on the
Speaker 12: Dan Patrick Show, Tillian Bloomington, who is a man Indiana
Speaker 12: football fan. He has to be so excited with his Hoosiers,
Speaker 12: who are kind of the poster child of the new
Speaker 12: age at college football. No real dominant teams, just a
Speaker 12: lot of very good teams.
Speaker 5: And in the.
Speaker 12: SEC Title game, Alabama had to cover ninety one yards
Speaker 12: for their loan touchdown and Georgia had to only cover
Speaker 12: one hundred and thirty yards combined. All four of their
Speaker 12: touchdowns and Dan this year is one of the few
Speaker 12: years that Notre Dame not being in the ACC conference
Speaker 12: came back to bite him. It not only cost him
Speaker 12: a berth in the playoffs, but with the ACC so
Speaker 12: week this year, it probably cost him a home first
Speaker 12: round playoff game. And I wonder if the committee leaving
Speaker 12: Notre Dame out is their way of trying to force
Speaker 12: him into a conference.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, I got to find this out, and I'm
Speaker 2: going to find it out in about five minutes. What
Speaker 2: role did the ACC play in Notre Dame getting in
Speaker 2: or not getting in? And find out next year on
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Speaker 2: We'll get some more phone calls. Coming up. Best and
Speaker 2: Worst of the weekend, Which you saw that you liked
Speaker 2: you didn't like. Rick Neuheisel covers college football. Former head
Speaker 2: coach will join us coming up top of the hour.
Speaker 2: Pete Bavaqua, Notre Dame athletic director. A couple of months ago,
Speaker 2: I said, oh, I look forward to talking to you again.
Speaker 2: I didn't know we would be talking about this. How
Speaker 2: did we get here? Pete?
Speaker 7: Dan, first of all, yeah, thanks thanks for having me on.
Speaker 7: It's good to see you yet yesterday, that's the question.
Speaker 7: I don't know how we got here. That's kind of
Speaker 7: what we have a problem with. I don't have a
Speaker 7: good answer for you, you know, and a lot of
Speaker 7: conversations here on campus the last twenty four hours, as
Speaker 7: you can imagine, and you know, I want to make
Speaker 7: one thing clear, Dan, we have no problems with the
Speaker 7: teams that made it in. They're all great teams. You know,
Speaker 7: Miami's a great team, Alabama's a great team. If Texas Vanderbilt.
Speaker 7: We're a great team. What we're so confused by and
Speaker 7: frustrated with is the process. You know, every step along
Speaker 7: the way, since the first CFP rankings came out, we
Speaker 7: were led to believe we were in as long as
Speaker 7: we took care of business, and we certainly took care
Speaker 7: of business with this ten game winning streak. Then you
Speaker 7: think about that first ranking. You know, we and Miami
Speaker 7: were both six and two. They had obviously already beat
Speaker 7: us the first game of the year. They were eighteenth,
Speaker 7: We were tenth. You know, the only thing that we
Speaker 7: did since that point was win every game by over
Speaker 7: an average of over thirty points. And you know, all
Speaker 7: of a sudden, we're eleventh and on the outside looking in.
Speaker 7: And you know, when we sit and talk, when I
Speaker 7: talked to Marcus, when when we talked to our team,
Speaker 7: we don't have any good answers for that. So we're
Speaker 7: just we're just really frustrated that we had the rug
Speaker 7: pulled out from underneath the stan.
Speaker 2: Were you able to lobby at all Sunday morning, you know,
Speaker 2: or had the decision been made that you were not
Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't know exactly when the decision was made.
Speaker 7: You know, we you know, we made our case. We
Speaker 7: stayed at our point of view. But again, if you're us,
Speaker 7: we were told from day one of the rankings that
Speaker 7: you know, we were in and we were ninth, and
Speaker 7: then all of a sudden, you know, we go play
Speaker 7: a game against Stanford. I felt like in the middle
Speaker 7: of the night, you know, and we we we took
Speaker 7: care of business, and Alabama has a really tough game
Speaker 7: against a an Auburn team that's having a tough year.
Speaker 7: And we wake up on Tuesday and we fall below
Speaker 7: Alabama for the first time. And it was all about
Speaker 7: the fierce conversation between Notre Dame and Alabama. And I
Speaker 7: heard something to the effect that Alabama went forward on
Speaker 7: fourth down, so that made an impression, and just our
Speaker 7: heads were spinning, like where's the logic, where's the rationale?
Speaker 7: Why are we being kind of punished and the only
Speaker 7: ones that seemed to be moving in the wrong direction
Speaker 7: and yet winning and having an unbelievably dominant end to
Speaker 7: the season. It's just we're confused, we're sad, and damn
Speaker 7: we're frustrated.
Speaker 2: And I was told there's nothing that's secret in those meetings,
Speaker 2: it eventually gets out, and I was told during last
Speaker 2: week that it felt like where Alabama was ranked that
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. In the words of my source, you guys
Speaker 2: were being set up for disappointment. So this is somebody
Speaker 2: involved in this. And then all of a sudden the
Speaker 2: Miami situation, which if they ranked Miami ahead of you, fine,
Speaker 2: I don't have any problem with that. I just didn't
Speaker 2: understand the rationale. And then I wondered, did the ACC
Speaker 2: lobby at all? Did what role did the ACC play
Speaker 2: in any of this? In your opinion?
Speaker 7: Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have
Speaker 7: tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team, great school,
Speaker 7: their athletic director, Dan Radakovich is a good friend, and
Speaker 7: all the teams in the ACC, great wonderful universities. We
Speaker 7: have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC,
Speaker 7: but we were mystified by the actions of the conference
Speaker 7: to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in
Speaker 7: football and a member of their conference in twenty four
Speaker 7: of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan,
Speaker 7: I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say
Speaker 7: that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship
Speaker 7: between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean,
Speaker 7: just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled
Speaker 7: out repeatedly and compared to Miami, not by Miami. Miami
Speaker 7: has every right to do that, but it raised a
Speaker 7: lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking shots
Speaker 7: at us, and you know, that's just not something we
Speaker 7: chose to do. We wouldn't choose to do that in
Speaker 7: the future. People might disagree with us, but that's just
Speaker 7: not something that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we
Speaker 7: have no problem with any of these teams. These are
Speaker 7: all great teams. You look at those teams, Miami, like
Speaker 7: I said, great season, they beat us. You think about Alabama,
Speaker 7: and nobody's had more success in college football over the
Speaker 7: last decade than Alabama. But Dan, you know, I mean,
Speaker 7: you follow the sport so closely. Everybody was saying that
Speaker 7: we were one of a handful of teams that could
Speaker 7: win this whole thing and that we have zero percent chance.
Speaker 7: Even Nick Saban, you know, nobody knows more about college
Speaker 7: football maybe in the history of the world than Nick Saban,
Speaker 7: you know, and he said it yesterday, like, how is
Speaker 7: Notre Dame, not in this. I mean, everybody's just kind
Speaker 7: of confused and per played, and we don't have good
Speaker 7: answers for the kids on our team, for our student athletes.
Speaker 2: Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC
Speaker 2: the overall relationship.
Speaker 7: I would just say it's been strained, irreparable, Well you
Speaker 7: never say irreparable. But it's opened our eyes and you know,
Speaker 7: we we it caught our attention. But you know, we'll
Speaker 7: we'll we'll move past this like we are, you know,
Speaker 7: as you know, we're already focused on next season. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, we made the decision not to play in
Speaker 7: a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware,
Speaker 7: and a lot of a lot of people have asked
Speaker 7: me about that. And you know when Marcus, we watched
Speaker 7: the presentation show, the selection show with the team, and
Speaker 7: then Marcus, like he always does, was wonderful, got up
Speaker 7: and for somebody that always has great answers, he was
Speaker 7: brutally honest with the team and said he didn't have
Speaker 7: a lot of answers. Doesn't understand how this happened, Why
Speaker 7: this happened, Why a team that thought it was doing
Speaker 7: what it needed to do all of a sudden kind
Speaker 7: of woke up on kind of the wrong side of this.
Speaker 7: And then just as you're kind of dealing with that,
Speaker 7: you start getting these calls from other bowls. And you know,
Speaker 7: the role of a captain on the Notre Dame football
Speaker 7: team is a role that the program and Marcus takes
Speaker 7: very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains,
Speaker 7: you know, and said, hey, what are you guys thinking,
Speaker 7: What's what does the team thinking. Let's talk about this,
Speaker 7: and you know, to a person, the captains and some
Speaker 7: of the other you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen,
Speaker 7: we are such a close knit team. We've done so
Speaker 7: much this season. We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied,
Speaker 7: we dominated in the last ten games. We can't imagine
Speaker 7: taking the field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan,
Speaker 7: you know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game.
Speaker 7: You think about some body with the future that he has,
Speaker 7: like a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price, Eli Rarid, and
Speaker 7: you know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive
Speaker 7: people I've met in my life. Hopefully, after he's done
Speaker 7: playing football, I hope he runs for president. One day,
Speaker 7: it just wouldn't be the same, and you know, made
Speaker 7: the decision that it was time to start thinking about
Speaker 7: next season. Give these these student athletes a break. They
Speaker 7: have exams coming up, and then you know, really hopefully
Speaker 7: they they'll go home and spend Christmas in the holidays
Speaker 7: with their family and friends.
Speaker 2: Feels like a message being sent as well, Pete.
Speaker 7: Well we're not happy, Dan, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Help me understand this though. So are you guaranteed of
Speaker 2: playoff birth if you're twelve or higher next season?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I don't want to say too much about the memorandum
Speaker 7: of understanding, but that's certainly been reported. That's out there,
Speaker 7: and what you said is accurate.
Speaker 2: It So next year, if you're ranked in the top twelve,
Speaker 2: you're automatically in the playoffs. Correct, Okay, And everybody agreed that,
Speaker 2: Like this was drawn up my Notre Dame, and then
Speaker 2: the college Football Playoff Committee said we'll sign off on that.
Speaker 7: Well, it was part of the negotiations as we were
Speaker 7: contemplating the various changes that go into the committee and
Speaker 7: in preparation for the extension of the ESPN deal.
Speaker 2: Are we looking at a sixteen team field next season? Dan?
Speaker 7: I go back to what I said when you were
Speaker 7: here on campus for the USC game. I firmly believe
Speaker 7: that the right answer is sixteen teams with five automatic
Speaker 7: qualifiers and eleven at large. And maybe there's no perfect answers.
Speaker 7: You know, think about this year, Dan, say we were
Speaker 7: four teams, there wouldn't be any arguments. I mean, those
Speaker 7: four teams. I think that's crystal clear. Those are the
Speaker 7: right four teams. I don't think anybody would argue so
Speaker 7: for twelve fourteen sixteen. I happened to think sixteen is
Speaker 7: the answer. I think the majority of the vast and
Speaker 7: overwhelming majority of the people in the college football management
Speaker 7: committee room agree with me. I think anything beyond sixteen,
Speaker 7: in my opinion, is a mistake because it would interfere
Speaker 7: with the importance of the regular season and all. By
Speaker 7: the way, did we feel that this year, right, but
Speaker 7: that's important? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: You know, we knew we had two tough games played.
Speaker 7: You know, well, we certainly got better over the course
Speaker 7: of the season, but we lost the two great teams
Speaker 7: by a total of four points. We felt we had
Speaker 7: zero wiggle room. We felt we did what we needed
Speaker 7: to do. It turns out we didn't have a chance, right,
Speaker 7: and that's what's so disappointing. But I think sixteen teams
Speaker 7: with the five and eleven format is the way to
Speaker 7: go down.
Speaker 2: Pete mcvauqua, Notre Dame Athletic Director joining us. But when
Speaker 2: is this voted on? When is this decided or is
Speaker 2: it already decided now?
Speaker 7: It's been a series of conversations for the better part
Speaker 7: of a year or more. As you saw, it was
Speaker 7: reported that we have a bit of an extension from
Speaker 7: when we need to inform ESPN of what the format
Speaker 7: will be. We'll meet as a group over the National
Speaker 7: Championship weekend. I'm not sure if anything's going to get
Speaker 7: resolved as it relates to format in that room at
Speaker 7: that time, but these conversations are ongoing. If I had
Speaker 7: to guess what happens next year, I think there's a
Speaker 7: good chance we stay at twelve. I hope we can
Speaker 7: keep pushing for sixteen, but Dan, I just don't know
Speaker 7: how that's going to end.
Speaker 2: College football is at a crossroads, it feels like, but
Speaker 2: it does take something to make change. So maybe what
Speaker 2: happened here with Notre Dame brings about change, So it
Speaker 2: could be a catalyst, do you see it that way?
Speaker 7: Well, again, we're frustrated with the process, not the teams.
Speaker 7: They're all great teams, and it's a bunch of team
Speaker 7: BYU has a great argument. Texas, Vanderbilt, Miami, Alabama, Notre Dame.
Speaker 7: We all have great arguments. It's the process that bothers us.
Speaker 2: Ranking shows bother me, Pete, because well.
Speaker 7: They bothered me too, because you know, if we said, well,
Speaker 7: if we had assembled as a team on Sunday and
Speaker 7: rankings hadn't told us for the previous weeks, we're in.
Speaker 13: We're in, we're in.
Speaker 7: Take care of business, take care of business, and hey,
Speaker 7: you know what, Notre Dame, you're eleven, and now you're
Speaker 7: going to get squeezed out because the conference tie ins
Speaker 7: and Miami beat you, And hey, I get it. But
Speaker 7: these ranking shows, as I said yesterday, like what's the
Speaker 7: point why kind of send these signals and get the
Speaker 7: hopes up of these of these teams, these coaches, these
Speaker 7: kids on the team that believe they're doing everything necessary.
Speaker 7: And then, like I said, it just felt in that
Speaker 7: room a collective sense of the rug being taken out
Speaker 7: from under us without any explanation. At that I've heard
Speaker 7: Dan that has me feeling better about it.
Speaker 2: Casual fan here's this and says it's sour grapes, Notre
Speaker 2: Dame trying to be bigger than everybody more important.
Speaker 7: You would say, what, Well, listen, everybody kind of wants
Speaker 7: to do right by their team. We felt like we
Speaker 7: did what we needed to do this season to earn
Speaker 7: a spot in the college football playoffs. We feel that
Speaker 7: we have one of the very best teams in the country.
Speaker 7: I think the majority of people who follow this sport
Speaker 7: so closely agreed. Every indication we had from that first
Speaker 7: ranking suggested that that committee agreed with us. We were
Speaker 7: always being compared to Alabama. We couldn't possibly have ended
Speaker 7: the year any better than we did. I get why
Speaker 7: people think it's sour grapes, but you know it's disappointment.
Speaker 9: Dan.
Speaker 7: I mean this is we take this seriously, as do
Speaker 7: other universities, and you know, the rankings can't just be
Speaker 7: musical chairs at some fifth grade birthday party. They have
Speaker 7: to mean something, and to me, what happened to us
Speaker 7: really kind of was alarming.
Speaker 2: Just to get you on record, you're not anti pop tarts, right,
Speaker 2: because you guys were reportedly going to the pop Tart
Speaker 2: Bowl to play BYU Dan.
Speaker 7: That the irony in that is I love pop tarts,
Speaker 7: and I particularly love the brown sugar pop tarts. I
Speaker 7: probably need too many of them now, I'm a huge
Speaker 7: fan of pop tarts. That's nothing to do with pop tarts, Okay.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure we got that on record.
Speaker 2: I would say, great to talk to you again, but
Speaker 2: thanks for We appreciate you coming on and giving your
Speaker 2: side of the thing. If the people watching on TV
Speaker 2: behind you, what are all those numbers behind you?
Speaker 7: So these behind me, these are actual bench seats from
Speaker 7: Notre Dame Stadium. So when we did the extension and
Speaker 7: the renovation and created crossroads here, there were some of
Speaker 7: the original seats left over, so we created a wall
Speaker 7: here with some of the original bench seats in Notre
Speaker 7: Dame Stadium. So this is the back of my office
Speaker 7: that you're looking at.
Speaker 2: How old are those seats?
Speaker 7: Probably some of them different ages but different panels, but
Speaker 7: some of them are over a century old.
Speaker 2: Thanks again, Pete, We appreciate your time now.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on DAN, and good to see
Speaker 7: you and hope to see us out.
Speaker 2: That's Pete Mavaqua he's the Notre Dame athletic director. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I understand it. You just want to know what the
Speaker 2: rules are. And I'm not a Notre Dame apologist. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying, let's just look at common sense here, and
Speaker 2: I'm not anti Miami. If Miami was ranked ahead of
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, fine, just you can't wait a month and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden go you know, Miami should be
Speaker 2: ranked ahead of Notre Dame put him there to begin with?
Speaker 2: Was there something up with the ACC? I think there's
Speaker 2: a whole lot more with that story, and Pete I
Speaker 2: think would love to have talked about that, but you
Speaker 2: could tell what the ACC did and did not do
Speaker 2: is going to be there for a little while. But
Speaker 2: he did say that rankings can't be musical chairs like
Speaker 2: a fifth grade birthday party. And he's right. It's these
Speaker 2: hey every Tuesday, the big reveal on the mother Ship.
Speaker 2: It's great programming for them, but it puts the college
Speaker 2: Football Playoff Committee in a tough situation because you got
Speaker 2: to explain, Okay, what happened then, and why is it
Speaker 2: different now, and why is it different in three or
Speaker 2: four weeks from now? And was Notre Dame being set
Speaker 2: up for disappointment. As my source said, this is last week.
Speaker 2: They said this, and then you had the Miami situation.
Speaker 2: But maybe it brings about change, But it didn't sound
Speaker 2: like Pete thought that they were expanding to sixteen teams.
Speaker 2: And I had been told that they were going to
Speaker 2: first I was told they weren't, and then I was
Speaker 2: told that they there's real strong momentum to have a
Speaker 2: sixteen team playoff next year. And now Notre Dame is
Speaker 2: guaranteed if they're ranked in the top twelve next year.
Speaker 2: And we even said that after their first two losses.
Speaker 2: I said, if they run the table, they're in two losses,
Speaker 2: quality losses beginning of the year losses, and they'll make
Speaker 2: the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Yes, Ton, it's very interesting saying how the relationship with
Speaker 3: the AEC is strained. That'll be interesting to follow moving forward.
Speaker 3: What's going to happen there.
Speaker 2: And that covers a lot of sports here. That's not
Speaker 2: just football, because they do have a partial schedule there
Speaker 2: with some ACC teams, but now you're talking about all
Speaker 2: the other sports they have with the ACC. All right,
Speaker 2: we'll take a break. We will give you our best
Speaker 2: and worst to the weekend. Right after this.
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Speaker 1: listen live. David in Ohio. Best and Worst of the weekend, David.
Speaker 14: Hey, David, Dan got a Hey, Dan got a Best
Speaker 14: and worst Dealers finally winning against the Ravens last time
Speaker 14: we beat them in Baltimore. Kenny Pickett and Tyler Huntley
Speaker 14: were the quarterback second best.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 14: Seeing Todd's Broncos succeed in AFC West and looks like
Speaker 14: they're gonna get a new possibly a new champ uh
Speaker 14: this uh this year, and it's just really good to see.
Speaker 14: That's my best.
Speaker 2: Thank you, gust In la Hi Gus. Best and Worst
Speaker 2: of the weekend.
Speaker 9: Good morning, mister pat Thick. Best of the weekend got
Speaker 9: to be Indiana to me, you know, everybody's been kind
Speaker 9: of like waiting for them to lose, just so they
Speaker 9: could be like see see told you, I told you.
Speaker 9: But great for them, for Nanum and those of the
Speaker 9: Heisman winner. Can't wait to see that one play out.
Speaker 9: Worst of the weekend. Look, you know, to me, it
Speaker 9: was flat out just arrogance of Notre Shame to sit
Speaker 9: there and be like, well we didn't get in until
Speaker 9: we're not gonna go to Bunny Bull game.
Speaker 5: You think Texas is sitting there right now, Texas and
Speaker 5: probably could maybe be in there, has maybe a case
Speaker 5: or whatever, and he's like, well, we should be in
Speaker 5: there too, you know. I mean, like, dude, don't don't
Speaker 5: schedule Syracuse blow them out knowingly seventy.
Speaker 13: To seven and be like, see, we're so good.
Speaker 5: See we'd like we should be in there. No, dude,
Speaker 5: it's arrogant. You guys, they played like a champion. How
Speaker 5: about your show up and just.
Speaker 2: Play the game, all right? Thank you, Gus, Michael and
Speaker 2: Miami Hi, Mike.
Speaker 13: Hey Dan six to three hundred. That was Miami getting in.
Speaker 13: My worst honestly is Notre Dame getting out, and that's
Speaker 13: because I thought the committee would have them play each
Speaker 13: other again in the semi finals. With the ACC debacle
Speaker 13: of how they did their rankings, is I think what
Speaker 13: pushed Notre Dame outs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's there's another story to tell here,
Speaker 2: and I think it has to do with the ACC
Speaker 2: because the ACC was going to lobby hard for Miami
Speaker 2: and maybe not lobby so hard for Notre Dame at
Speaker 2: least from what I'm told and two sources on this,
Speaker 2: so I've been trying to get information on it. The
Speaker 2: Alabama placing is a little questionable. Prior to the College
Speaker 2: Football Playoff Commedye reveal, Miami put him in front of
Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Nobody would have had a problem with that.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't felt when you let them jump. Alabama is
Speaker 2: non competitive in the SEC title game. Yes they got there,
Speaker 2: but they were not competitive at all, and then you're
Speaker 2: not dropping. I don't know it just it felt a
Speaker 2: little nefarious there. Todd Best and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 2: My best of the weekend.
Speaker 3: They lost their football coach, but Ioway State basketball Saly
Speaker 3: dominated Number one, produced eighty one fifty eight with the
Speaker 3: help of eleven three pointers. Boiler Makers twenty three point loss,
Speaker 3: largest non conference home loss by a number one team
Speaker 3: in ap POLE history, tied for the largest.
Speaker 4: Homeless ever by a number one team.
Speaker 3: Wow worst Alabama getting shut out for the first three
Speaker 3: quarters against Georgia the game by three touchdowns twenty eight seven.
Speaker 3: The Dogs had one hundred and forty one total rushing yards.
Speaker 3: Crimson tied negative three.
Speaker 2: Seat and best and worst.
Speaker 11: My best of the weekend is Mike Tomlin getting a
Speaker 11: huge dove against the Ravens. I guess I'm not any
Speaker 11: good at coaching. Why don't I just beat the Ravens.
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 11: My worst of the weekend Tampa Bay losing that was
Speaker 11: an absolute must win. They've lost I think five of
Speaker 11: the last seven or something like that. If there was
Speaker 11: an NFL playoff selection committee, they would be on the
Speaker 11: outside looking in.
Speaker 2: Marvin Best and worst.
Speaker 15: Best at the weekend Titans running back Tony Pollard twenty
Speaker 15: five carries harness sixty one yards, two touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Worst of the weekend the Commanders. What happened this season?
Speaker 15: After making the NFC Championship game last year, they're now
Speaker 15: three and ten and they got shut out. Now harder
Speaker 15: is for NFL two and to get shut out.
Speaker 2: I'm watching the Broncos and the Raiders. I have this
Speaker 2: bet with Todd. I had the Raiders with a better
Speaker 2: record than the Broncos, so I got to get a
Speaker 2: pie to the face.
Speaker 4: I think they're eleven two and two and eleven right
Speaker 4: now standing?
Speaker 2: So can we call?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 2: We can settle the bet? Now?
Speaker 4: Probably, I don't see the Raiders catching up.
Speaker 2: With four games, all right, maybe a double or nothing.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have to make it like a thirty game
Speaker 4: schedule or something.
Speaker 2: So you're down by ten, the line is seven and
Speaker 2: a half, and the to end the game you kick
Speaker 2: a field goal, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 2: lose by seven when the line is seven and a half.
Speaker 2: What team goes for a field goal at the end
Speaker 2: of the game when you know that you need ten
Speaker 2: points so you're gonna get You're not even going for
Speaker 2: a touchdown? Oh gues Todd.
Speaker 3: The only thing I thought of was that they were
Speaker 3: hoping the kick would take less than five seconds, and
Speaker 3: then they cut it to seven and an on side
Speaker 3: kick with one second left that somehow they pick up
Speaker 3: and run in for a touch on something.
Speaker 4: Crazier things have happened, I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess technically, but you can't advance an onside.
Speaker 3: Can't so I don't even know. So would there be
Speaker 3: time for one play if they got it?
Speaker 2: Probably not, I don't think so. But once again, I
Speaker 2: do watch the lines as a former gambler, and I'm
Speaker 2: always curious, like, whenever there's a last second, you know,
Speaker 2: play one way or another, I go, how did that
Speaker 2: affect this spread? And most times it does? PAULI Best
Speaker 2: and worst of the weekend.
Speaker 6: I got two bests, as obvious as it is. The
Speaker 6: Indiana Hoosiers beating Ohio State and doing it with defense.
Speaker 6: They held them the fifty eight yards rushing two point
Speaker 6: two a Carrie if you're from Earth, Indiana being the
Speaker 6: number one football team in the country is one of
Speaker 6: the wildest stories of my lifetime. Unbelievable and then one
Speaker 6: that went under the radar a little bit. This weekend
Speaker 6: FCS playoffs, Illinois State Redbirds take down North Dakota State,
Speaker 6: previously undefeated, twenty nine to twenty eight in a fantastic game.
Speaker 6: Huge day for Illinois State.
Speaker 2: I think Illinois State was a twenty two to twenty
Speaker 2: three point underdog in that game. Rich and Pittsburgh, Hey Rich,
Speaker 2: thanks for holding What's on your mind.
Speaker 16: Was the whole thing for the ACC. The Notre Dame
Speaker 16: Miami was created by the ACC. Why was Duke playing
Speaker 16: Virginia and not the best second best team? Miami planed Virginia,
Speaker 16: then Miami and Virginia, who over won, went right into
Speaker 16: the tournament.
Speaker 2: Well, there's some kind of like five team tiebreaker that
Speaker 2: Duke somehow won. I yeah, I'm with you on that.
Speaker 2: I would hope that you had a better ACC title game,
Speaker 2: but then Duke ends up winning. Yes he did. Sounded
Speaker 2: like Jim Beahon checking in there. Oh well, Jim's not
Speaker 2: doing anything now, Aaron and fort Wayne? Hi, Aeron, went's
Speaker 2: on your mind today?
Speaker 13: By hey, Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: That's the worst of the weekend.
Speaker 5: Uh, definitely my Hoosiers taken down.
Speaker 16: Ohio State and Paully is right.
Speaker 14: I was thinking about this, like, what kind of story
Speaker 14: is there ever been of a team rising up like Indiana?
Speaker 13: I mean, and you get it at March Madness.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, we gave Dion so much credit
Speaker 2: for what he did at Colorado, right, everybody lauding, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, look at what Deon did. They won one
Speaker 2: game the previous year or whatever. Then they won four
Speaker 2: and it was like game day and you know, everybody's
Speaker 2: out there. Kurt Signetti did something that's never been done before,
Speaker 2: Like that turnaround is a million times more than what
Speaker 2: Dion did at Colorado. Colorado has won a national title before,
Speaker 2: Colorado has had a Heisman Trophy winner before. Colorado has
Speaker 2: played good football before Indiana has not. What he did
Speaker 2: in two years is incredible. He should be the Sports
Speaker 2: Illustrated Sportsman of the Year. Yeah, Paul.
Speaker 6: From eighteen ninety nine until two years ago, Indian never
Speaker 6: won ten plus games in a season. The past two
Speaker 6: years eleven wins, thirteen wins.
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