WEBVTT - Hour 3 – Rick Neuheisel, Notre Dame Snub 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:03.560 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.440 Sports Radio Final Hour. In this Monday Dan and the 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.760 dan 's Dan Patrick Show. Doctor Rick Neuheisel College football 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:14.120 a list. He'll join us coming up here shortly. Sunday 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:18.440 Night Football. It'll be justin Jefferson and the Vikings against 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.360 Dak and the Cowboys. That'll be at seven Eastern, non 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.439 NBC and Peacock. I mentioned with the NFL, it was 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.160 more about the teams that lost over the weekend. Certainly 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.840 the Colts losing and losing their quarterback. Chiefs lose last night, 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.519 Bengals lose in Buffalo, the Buccaneers lost at home, the 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.880 Ravens lost at home as well. You know, the Bears 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.519 had the best record in the NFC. They ended up 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.440 losing to Green Bay. And Green Bay is kind of 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:50.080 quietly becoming a very good team, if not great team. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.440 And you know, I think we focus usually on the 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.720 offense and Jordan Love and is Jordan Love holding them back? 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.840 And the defense is playing well. But that's a big 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.920 You know that you're at home, Yes you're supposed to win, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.320 it's against the Bears, and you end up winning. Because 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.480 when we look back on this season, there's going to 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.360 be a couple of teams where you're going to single 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.280 out one game, maybe two games, where you go, how 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.480 did you lose to them? Take care of the business 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.560 that's in front of you, and then you hope that 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.640 you're going to be able to get into the postseason. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.160 You know the Steelers. Steelers aren't great, They're a little 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:29.160 better than average, it feels like, but that's a desperate 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:31.760 Ravens team. You're at home. You got to win that game. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.360 You have to win that game. And what I have 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.679 given Isaiah likely a touchdown. I would have because it 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.520 felt like it was one step, two steps control of 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.960 the ball. Football moved to keep the ball away from 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:48.160 the defender and they decided to overturn that. But as 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.640 Aaron Rodgers said, maybe this will keep us idiots in 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:57.040 the media off Mike Tomlin for a week, maybe nationally 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:01.440 not locally. It'll be like, ruggled. We maybe shouldn't have 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:04.320 won that game, but that's a big win. But it 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:07.600 sounded like the Ravens are out of it in that division. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:09.960 They're still in it. You went too in a row. 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.919 Did you see Ben Johnson, the Bear's head coach, and 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.440 Matt leafleour at the end of the game with their handshake. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.160 Frosty is the word that I would use. Keep in mind, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.160 when Ben Johnson was sworn in as the Bear's head coach, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.200 he was like, oh yeah, I always like beating the 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.040 Packers twice a year. That was when he was an 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.160 assistant coach in Detroit. Well, now you're the head coach here, 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.600 And I think that's why it was a little bit 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.919 of a frosty handshake at the end of the game. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.240 And they play each other in two weeks. But I 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:44.640 was kind of surprised that when Ben got sworn in. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.280 I'm like, all right, he's buying into that rivalry. Now 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:49.720 you've got to go out there and win. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:53.000 Yeah, Paul, that barely counts as a postgame handshake. They 0:02:53.000 --> 0:02:55.160 didn't even break stride or slow down. It was like, 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:57.480 in real time, a grab and go and they didn't 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.840 even give the good game turn in you just throw away. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.120 I did like it, though, yes, because you know it 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.040 feels like, hey, everybody loves everybody. Every quarterback loves every quarterback, 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.760 every coach loves every that's not the keys. But I 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.520 like it when you don't like each other. I like 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.200 it when there's a little bit of a frosty nature 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:25.639 added to that. Packers' next game in Denver. In Denver, Nah, 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.639 that's what I want to see Jordan Love against that 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:33.200 Broncos defense. Is that Broncos defense. I think they're up 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.000 to like fifty five sacks something like that. This year. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.120 They've been great, and they roughed up the Raiders yesterday 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.360 as well. All right, eight seven seven three DP show 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.440 more phone calls best and worst to the weekend, uh Seaton, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.200 You got a poll question for the final hour, and 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.280 then we will talk to Rick Newheisel. 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.160 Yeah, we got three of them up there right now. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.720 Notre Dame either your options are got hosed, will change 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:57.760 the playoffs as being petty or all of the above? 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.640 Right now, being petty has about thirty six percent, followed 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.680 by all of the above, which is thirty four. We 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:06.960 also have up there the Chiefs playoff chances are dead, 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.120 on life support or alive, and well fifty four percent 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.520 of the audience have them as dead. And the worst 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.960 loss this weekend Bucks, Chiefs, Colts, Ravens. It's in that order. Actually, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:19.719 Bucks and Chiefs almost tied for the top. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.120 Fritchie just reminded me The late field goal by the 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.600 Raiders put the game total over by a half. The 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.080 total was forty and a half. The field goal got 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:35.360 it to forty one, and the points spread was seven 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.080 and a half. They were down ten, they kick a 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:43.440 field goal and they lose by seven. This is where 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.680 Todd comes in. He goes, how did they do that? 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:45.240 Oh? 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:46.960 How did I do that? 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:47.720 Crazy? 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:49.719 Well, it's their job, Todd. 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:53.360 The last second, meaningless field goal somehow gets involved with. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.120 I just can't. This is what they do. They have 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.600 to do this so they can make money. New Heisel 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.640 college football analyst works for CBS, joining us on the program. 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:07.039 All right, do we talk about what the committee got 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.960 right or what the committee got wrong? 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:14.760 I think the answer is we're all kind of lost 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.520 in a world that for six weeks we were told 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:21.600 that Notre Dame was better than Miami. We all made 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.880 our proclamations about how that game went on the field 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.720 to play in week one, but to do it for 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:33.360 six weeks and then choose the week after neither one played, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:39.120 to make the adjustment. That to me is time for 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.840 a change. And I don't blame anybody, but all of 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:47.640 a sudden, you've teased Notre Dame for too long to 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.239 do this to them, And I see now they're taking 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.000 their ball and going home. They're not going to play 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.120 in a bowl game. This is bad for college football. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.440 Well what do you make of that decision to not 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.480 play in the bowl game against BYU. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.000 I think it's a sign of the times. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.480 We saw Iowa State, we saw Kansas State also make 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:10.240 similar decisions. Obviously coaching changes there as part of it. 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.800 But I think bowl games are going to end up 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.320 being the first game of the year. Dan, I think 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.240 we're going to see a bunch of these bulls go 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.120 by way of the whales. And I also think the 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:23.360 college football playoff is going to go. As they extended 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.800 that deadline to January twenty third, I think we're going 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.440 to go right past sixteen all the way to twenty four. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.599 Well, wait a minute, we're going to get rid of 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:34.760 bowl games. What do you mean by bowl games will 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:35.880 be the first game of the year. 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.160 I think we're going to have a hard time talking 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:43.200 a bunch of teams into playing in the postseason. Maybe 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.919 I'm wrong, and I hope I am, because I remember 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.480 vividly how much I enjoyed them both as a player, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.240 and as coach. But I just think in this day 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.880 of transaction football, where people are coming and going, that 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.719 there are going to be a lot of teams and 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.479 we're going to see a lot of players that aren't 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.359 going to participate, and I think that's a shame. So 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.720 I wouldn't be surprised to see a bunch of these 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.200 bowl games get moved to the front end of a 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:09.320 college football season. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.400 Does Alabama deserve to be in not? 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:18.160 Based on the eye test? They were not themselves. Give 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.760 Georgia a lot of credit for that, but that was 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.800 not a good looking football team. And you know those 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.240 two conference championship games, the Acid excuse me, the SEC 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.160 and the Big Ten. For there to be that little 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:38.720 movement in the CFP rankings meant that they were basically 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.760 not important enough to make changes. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.000 That to me signals of time. 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.760 We're going to change those out, We're not going to 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:47.760 have those, We're going to end up having play in 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.040 games to replace the money. 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.960 And I'm wondering about these weekly ranking shows that ESPN 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.520 has right, and I think it puts the College Football 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.640 Committee in a really precarious position because they have to 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.600 explain themselves and they don't do a very good job 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:05.840 explaining themselves. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.000 No they don't, and the poor communicator in this case, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.840 Hunter Yrchek, the CFP chairman, has to try to make 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.640 sense of things. And I mean, for the for six weeks, 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:20.840 you basically said that Miami is not as good as 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.600 Notre Dame because Notre Dame's on this fabulous run. Notre 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.480 Dame finishes the run, Miami finishes the season, and. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:27.280 Then you flip them. 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.960 Uh. It brings into question all sorts of things, which 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.480 isn't fair to the committee, but ultimately they have to answer. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.000 So these shows to me ought to be one show, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.600 the last one. And I understand how television works. We 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.640 like our cake and eat it too. We like people's 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.840 eyeballs and commercials and all that stuff. But that was 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.280 that was difficult. I knew the committee was in trouble 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:54.080 when bou Corrigan, as the committee chaired, Dan said, as 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:59.360 you know, we like wins and we value wins. When 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.000 he came up with that, Pearl, I said, now that's 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:03.440 common sense. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.120 He's Rick new Heisl, CBS college football analyst, former college 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.480 football head coach. If I would have told you five 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.559 months ago, Indiana is going to be undefeated, number one 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.320 team in the country and they're going to have the 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.000 Heisman Trophy winner and Notre Dame is not going to 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:18.760 make the playoffs. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:25.400 You would have said, where's the statue of Signetti? The 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.320 guy has pulled a rabbit out of his hat. 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:32.120 Is there anything that's comparable to what he's accomplished, because 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.720 I do think it's being underrated what he did growing 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.480 up in the Midwest, knowing what Indiana football was and 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.680 they want to be a basketball school and what he's 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:45.360 done in two years time is working. 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.920 Yeah, I think we're working so hard to figure out 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.160 how it could have happened. And obviously with a transfer 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.040 poral in his experience at James Madison and a lot 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.480 of really good players, the sarat kid and others that 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.880 came with him from James Madison. But at the end 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.040 of the day, let's just stop and admire the work done. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:06.920 It is phenomenal. It is out of this world. This 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.360 is a program that was the losingest program in all 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.360 of college football. No one had lost more games, and 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.600 for them to go and have this run that they 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.079 have enjoyed eleven and two last year and now sitting 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:22.480 there at thirteen and zero and the number one team 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.719 in the land going to a Rose Bowl. If you're 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.600 a Hoosier fan, you're going just don't wake me up. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.920 Just keep this thing rolling. And now you know we're 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.200 going to be listening to Abba played Fernando for on 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:35.920 and on and on. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.200 How many teams can win the title? 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.640 I think seven. I think I like maybe maybe eight. 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.360 I think the top seven teams are all absolutely good 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.520 enough to do it. And as we saw over the weekend, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.199 defense plays right that those were games I think all 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.839 went under. So if you have the top seven, and 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.480 I think, if I'm looking, that's the seventh team, I 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:06.160 kind of like Miami. I think Miami is dangerous if 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:07.440 Carson Beck gets on a heater. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.200 How did Penn State do in the big picture here? 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:18.360 A whole lot of a whole lot of you know, consternation, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:24.080 and a whole lot of time and money spent to 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.520 get the same coach. I mean, Matt Campbell's a fine coach, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.679 but he has no better resume than James Franklin when 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:34.840 he got there, and James Franklin had a great run. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.640 I understand the whiplash of the three games and why 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.679 it happened, but Matt Campbell's going to have to go 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.439 aways to be better than what James Franklin is And 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.120 right now, if you're looking at Virginia Tech and Penn State, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.280 the momentum is clearly with Virginia Tech. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.960 I was told over the weekend that we're going to 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.640 sixteen teams with the playoff next year. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.800 I think I think, you know, as the old saying goes, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.559 the answers money Now what was the question? 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:02.920 Right? 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.480 But but you know, given the noted Aime situation, I 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.080 wouldn't be shocked if we go right through it. I 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.720 really wouldn't because to get to twenty four. Now you 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.400 can start supplanning some of these conference championship games, which 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.680 right now after the weekend we saw even with Alabama 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:24.800 looking that terrible, didn't move a spot. Ohio State lost 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.560 the game, but is the two seed and nothing really matters. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.880 All they did is risk players. I think we're going 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:34.439 to look for games to supplant those, and in so doing, 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.200 we're going to end up at a number that's larger 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.800 than sixteen. Why would we stop knowing that we're probably 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:40.800 going to get there anyway? 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:43.480 Yeah, you know, the conference championships have always been a 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.840 money grab sure, right, that's all. That's why they were 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:47.760 just like basketball. 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.000 Just like basketball, conference tournaments are a money grab. They 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.720 don't really mean that much when you're in the power 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:54.480 for structure. 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.880 Now for the ACC. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:13:01.679 And the Big Twelve, they're important games because loser is out. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.840 Uh and in this game even winner was out. Uh. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.000 I wonder if they might make a deal with the 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.480 Notre Dame in the ACC. If the ACC doesn't have 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.160 a champion as as Duke was, that Notre Dame can 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.520 be their champion. Remember Notre Dame went as there as 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.720 an ACC team back in the COVID year. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.600 Who would you make the commissioner of college football? Oh goodness, 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.320 is there somebody who can do that? 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:32.360 Jobs as big as it is, it's all it is 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.720 is given the bad news, right, It's it's the guy 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.920 who can come up and tell people, or or the 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.200 the woman who can come up and tell people things 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:40.600 that they. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.600 Don't necessarily do. Exact their commissioner like somebody like Goodell, 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:48.280 like scheduling. You know he's running or they are running 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:49.000 everything here. 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.599 I'm available, Dan, I just want to make you you 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:53.560 got a great life. 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:55.080 You don't want this. 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.120 I got, I got my I'm working on my grip. 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.560 Okay, enough people hate you. You don't need more people 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:04.080 to hate you. It's an excellent point. D It's an 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:08.120 excellent point. I don't need that nonsense. Thank you, buddy. 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:08.880 I appreciate you. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.960 Jo always wonderful to be with you. Happy holidays, and 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.200 I'll have a song for you the next time we talk. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.760 Rick new Isiel CBS Sports analyst. Okay, he brings up 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:23.760 something interesting from the standpoint of expanding the playoffs. Now, 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.360 I'm going to take a break and then we'll come back. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.280 I want to talk about this because there's also going 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.160 to be a push for something that has to do 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.200 with bowl games, and we might flip the script of 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.880 having bowl games to start seasons. They want to make 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:40.720 sure that these players are going to play in the 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.680 bowl games. Rick is talk about expanding the playoffs to 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:48.000 twenty four and I understand you may not like it 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.920 his logic, but I do understand it. We'll take a break, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.280 we'll come back more of your phone calls, best and 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.520 worst of the weekend. 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What role do the ACC play in any 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:53.760 of this in your opinion? 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.280 Well, I would tell you, I mean again, I have 0:15:56.400 --> 0:16:00.520 tremendous respect for Miami, you know, the great team school, 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.600 their athletic director Dan Radikovich is a good friend, and 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.760 all the teams in the ACC great wonderful universities. We 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.360 have no gripes about any of the schools in the ACC. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.720 But we were mystified by the actions of the conference 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.720 to attack you know, their biggest really business partner in 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.040 football and a member of their conference in twenty four 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.560 of our other sports. And I would tell you, Dan, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.960 I wouldn't be honest with you if I didn't say 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.120 that they have certainly done permanent damage to the relationship 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.280 between the conference and Notre Dame. What do you mean, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.360 just we didn't appreciate the fact that we were singled 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:45.080 out repeatedly and compared to Miami. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:45.480 Not by Miami. 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.600 Miami has every right to do that, but it raised 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.120 a lot of eyebrows here that the conference was taking 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.280 shots at us, and you know, that's just not something 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.160 we chose to do. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.160 We wouldn't choose to do that in the future. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.960 People might disagree with us, but that's just not something 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.480 that we'd be comfortable with. And again, we have no 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.760 problem with any of these teams. These are all great teams. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.480 You look at those teams, Miami, like I said, great season, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.479 they beat us. You think about Alabama, and nobody's had 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.000 more success in college football over the last decade than Alabama. 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.800 But Dan, you know, I mean, you follow the sport 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.439 so closely everybody was saying that we were one of 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.480 a handful of teams that could win this whole thing, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.000 and that we have zero percent chance. Even Nick Saban, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.359 you know, nobody knows more about college football maybe in 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.919 the history of the world than Nick Saban, you know, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.120 and he said it yesterday, like, how is Notre Dame 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:36.000 not in this? I mean, everybody's just kind of confused 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:39.240 and perplexed, and we don't have good answers for the 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.040 kids on our team, for our student athletes. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.240 Are you going to reevaluate your relationship with the ACC 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:46.760 the overall relationship. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.680 I would just say it's been strained. 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:56.440 That is going to go viral there with that comment. Now, 0:17:56.520 --> 0:18:00.399 I did ask Pete to explain the decision name is 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:01.760 going to sit out their bowl game. 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.639 You know, we made the decision not to play in 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.240 a bowl game, as I know you're you're well aware, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:10.640 and a lot of people have asked me about that. 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:15.359 And you know, when Marcus, we watched the presentation show, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.439 the selection show with the team, and then Marcus, like 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.360 he always does, was wonderful, got up and for somebody 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.600 that always has great answers, he was brutally honest with 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.680 the team and said he didn't have a lot of answers. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.240 Doesn't understand how this happened, Why this happened, Why a 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:33.359 team that thought it was doing what it needed to 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.119 do all of a sudden kind of woke up on 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.760 kind of the wrong side of this. And then just 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.480 as you're kind of dealing with that, you start getting 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.480 these calls from other bowls. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:44.399 And you know that the. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.680 Role of a captain on the Notre Dame football team 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:50.439 is a role that that the program and Marcus takes 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:54.320 very very seriously. And he talked to all the captains, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:56.560 you know, I said, hey, what are you guys thinking, 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.000 What's what does the team thinking. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.560 Let's talk about this, And you know. 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.840 To a person, the captains and some of the other 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.600 you know, underclassmen on the team said, listen, we are 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.040 such a close knit team. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:10.280 We've done so much this season. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.320 We overcame those two opening losses, we rallied, we dominated 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:18.040 in the last ten games. We can't imagine taking the 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:22.119 field not as that team. And it's reality, Dan, you 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:26.879 know that certain players wouldn't participate in that game. You 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.399 think about somebody with the future that he has, like 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.879 a Jeremiah Love, a Jadarian Price Eli Rared and you 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:38.320 know Emil Wagner, who's one of the most impressive people 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.520 I've met in my life, who hopefully after he's done 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.000 playing football, I hope he runs for president one day. 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.359 It just wouldn't be the same. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:48.200 And you know, made the decision that it was time 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:52.760 to start thinking about next season. Give these these student 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:55.320 athletes a break. They have exams coming up, and then 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:58.640 you know, really hopefully they'll go home and spend Christmas 0:19:58.640 --> 0:19:59.760 in the holidays with their family. 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:03.399 And so that's Pete Babakway. He's the athletic director at 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.199 Notre Dame. And whether you agree with him or not, 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:07.920 I wish they would have played in the ball game. 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.359 I do understand what he's saying. If you're not playing 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:12.760 for anything, then why are you playing in the bowl game, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.679 Especially if you're Jeremiah Love and you're going to be 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.679 a top fifteen pick and some of these other players 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.520 at Notre Dame, why are you playing? This is why 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:23.359 what Rick Newheiser was saying. If you expanded to twenty 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:28.480 four schools, now you have and they'll still be playing 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:32.239 in bowl games, they'll be playoff games. But now all 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.879 of a sudden, they're relevant now I have more teams, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:42.440 more players, and better games. Now, is that too many 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.720 twenty four teams instead of twelve or going to fourteen? 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:50.320 But this is what Rick Newhaisa was saying. I'm wondering 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.199