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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, No.

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Speaker 2: Eagle, NBC Sports play by Play, Big ten Saturday Night NBA.

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Speaker 2: He's going to call the USC Notre Dame game as well.

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Speaker 2: He's a busy man as we make way for No.

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Speaker 2: Eagle on the program. So Notre Dame and USC that'll

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Speaker 2: be Saturday at seven thirty Eastern on NBC and Peacock

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Speaker 2: and then three days later on the call for the

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Speaker 2: NBA and NBC Steph Curry and the Warriors against Luca

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Speaker 2: and the Lakers. It's a busy schedule there, but you

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Speaker 2: grew up with your dad having a crazy schedule, Like,

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Speaker 2: at what point did you realize what your dad did

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Speaker 2: and that he wasn't going to be home like normal dads.

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Speaker 3: I figured he'd be home all the time. He's not

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Speaker 3: home right now. No, no, no, I think he might

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Speaker 3: be doing a game in like Boise at this point.

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Speaker 3: If there was a little league game he could do,

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Speaker 3: he would sign up for that. He was gluttonous at times.

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Speaker 3: But no, it was great for me because I think

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Speaker 3: it was just expected and normal that I would be

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Speaker 3: there he was. When I was four. I just said, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's just my dad is there. And then the best

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Speaker 3: part was he did have the summers off. Because he

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Speaker 3: wasn't a baseball guy. He got offered I actually didn't

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Speaker 3: really know this. Many years ago. He got offered certain

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Speaker 3: baseball packages. And he grew up a huge Mets fan

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Speaker 3: in Queens from Forest Hills, and his dream was to

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Speaker 3: do the Mets as a kid. That was always what

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Speaker 3: he thought he would do, and so I think he

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Speaker 3: got offered, however, many Mets games and he went to

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Speaker 3: my mom and said, you know, this is the deal.

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Speaker 3: And I grew up and she goes, and I've really

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Speaker 3: put up with a lot in life. This is going

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Speaker 3: to be a no, a hard no.

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Speaker 4: At that.

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Speaker 3: The one moment that I have that we have together

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Speaker 3: is the summertime, and if you're going to take that away,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be a problem. And he's a smart man.

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Speaker 3: He listened.

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Speaker 2: When did you realize this was your calling?

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Speaker 3: Probably about thirteen or fourteen. My dad has a great

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Speaker 3: story that he went to his father, who was an actor,

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Speaker 3: stand up comedian, performer, and he went to at seven

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Speaker 3: six or six or seven years old and said, I

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Speaker 3: want to be a sportscaster and his dad said, well,

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Speaker 3: that's what you're going to do. You're going to be

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Speaker 3: a sportscaster. And the problem was he said it with

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Speaker 3: a list. He said, I want to be a fourth castor.

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Speaker 3: And his dad said, well that's what you're gonna do,

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Speaker 3: but you got to get rid of your lisp and

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Speaker 3: he said what lift?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 3: So that's that was a beautiful story because it bred

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Speaker 3: confidence in this young man. I went to my parents

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Speaker 3: about the same age, and you know, they said, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: what do you want to do? When most kids it's

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Speaker 3: to be a TV dentist. And instead of them saying, well,

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Speaker 3: that's what you're going to do, it was what is

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Speaker 3: wrong with our child? What is a TV dentist? Can

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Speaker 3: we get them checked out? So for me it was

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Speaker 3: it took a little bit longer, I'd say thirteen or

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Speaker 3: fourteen TV dentist. I think doctor Phil filling a molar

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Speaker 3: is probably the intersection I was thinking of now on

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Speaker 3: TikTok or Instagram reels that exists, I'm sure somewhere, but

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Speaker 3: for whatever reason, I thought people would want to sit

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Speaker 3: at home on a Wednesday at one point fifteen and

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Speaker 3: or at least not yet, I should say, But for

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Speaker 3: me thirteen or fourteen years old, I'd gone with my

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Speaker 3: them and gotten to meet some amazing people around them

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Speaker 3: that I said, well, this is pretty cool. And you know,

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Speaker 3: the next best bet for me to stay involved in sports.

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Speaker 2: I made the mistake of calling you I an eagle,

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Speaker 2: ye like, you look exactly like you're dead.

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Speaker 3: The crazy thing is I'm adopted, So that's that's shocking

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Speaker 3: that it just worked out that way. That's like when

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Speaker 3: dogs turn morph into the people that bring them into

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Speaker 3: the house. No, I Yeah, it's definitely one. We sound

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Speaker 3: so yeah, we go back to back on a daily basis.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you mess it up twice, that's a

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Speaker 2: How do you capture a moment as a play by

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Speaker 2: play guy, You're going to walk into this stadium Saturday,

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Speaker 2: the Olympics, Lakers, Golden State next week, but you got

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Speaker 2: to capture it too, but you can't try to overshadow it.

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of a delicate tightrope walk. How do

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Speaker 3: Tightrope is probably the right term. I like to say

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Speaker 3: it's a constant dance as well of feeling. And someone

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Speaker 3: environment is going to be amazing, the crowd is going

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Speaker 3: deafening noise. I don't think I've ever heard a stadium

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Speaker 3: And so that says something. And so you don't want

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Speaker 3: It's not something that you can go in there and plan.

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Speaker 2: But you start to look at these moments that you

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Speaker 3: It's a great question, and I'd say, naturally, just because

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Speaker 3: of play by play, it's the most well rounded people.

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Speaker 3: What do you know outside of the sports you're covering, television, movies, music, arts, history,

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Speaker 3: emulate this Bob Costas. The eloquence that he brought to

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Speaker 2: with Todd Blackledge. He'll be tomorrow night and rain in

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Speaker 2: the forecast Notre Dame USC. Do you care about the

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Speaker 3: Well, if you're asking if I physically care, not necessarily,

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Speaker 3: That's the key. I worked hard on it this morning,

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Speaker 3: does factor into the story of the game. But you

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Speaker 3: want it to be at the highest quality, highest level.

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Speaker 3: When we did and I apologize for bringing this up

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Speaker 3: for Notre Dame fans, when we did the A and

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Speaker 3: those highlights as a play by play guy. But at

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Speaker 3: the same time, you want a great game, and sometimes

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Speaker 3: the ugliest games turn into the all time games.

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Speaker 2: It's always weird when and I don't know how you

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Speaker 2: take this, but when you hear a play by play

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Speaker 2: Sure like you you did a great job, you laid out,

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Speaker 2: you let the natural sound come through, which sounds kind

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Speaker 2: of counterintuitive to what a play by play guy does.

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Speaker 2: But hey, I did a great job, but I didn't

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Speaker 2: say a word like Chris Berman doing the cal Ripken

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Speaker 2: game when he broke lou Gerrigs all time record. I

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Speaker 2: think Chris didn't say anything for fifteen minutes. You did

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Speaker 2: a great job on that game. Yeah, you didn't say

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Speaker 2: a word for fifteen eight minutes. It just sounds weird.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it goes back to what you asked earlier

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Speaker 3: about finding that balance between when's the right time to

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Speaker 3: say nothing. And honestly, the one guy I forgot to

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Speaker 2: Jerome bettas Hall of Famer Notre Dame running back and

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Speaker 2: When I say USC, the first thing that comes to

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Speaker 4: Hey, we hate USC absolutely.

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Speaker 4: Yes, more than Michigan.

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Speaker 5: But it's slightly more me being from the state of Michigan,

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Speaker 5: But USC is our biggest rival, no question about it.

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Speaker 2: But you did well against USC, then you I never lost.

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Speaker 2: I got you in nineteen ninety one, you had two

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Speaker 4: Remember?

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Speaker 5: I was not concussed? No, And I cannot remember who?

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Speaker 4: But to should never have had a hit like that

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Speaker 2: He was like, sorry, Broy, what happened to your Steelers

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Speaker 5: And Joe Flacco was hot and he sliced the part

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Speaker 2: Mike Tomlin ever yell at you know, I missed Tomlin.

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Speaker 4: So I when I retired, coward.

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Speaker 4: A year later.

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Speaker 2: The coward yell at you.

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Speaker 4: Yes he did.

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Speaker 5: He yelled at everybody. And I mean he was a spinner,

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Speaker 5: I was fortunate to have double spinners. But the key,

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Speaker 5: Very very little I got. I didn't get as much

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Speaker 2: You should have worn the Ladanian Tomlinson shield then you

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Speaker 5: Know, they weren't out there. You better believe I would

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Speaker 4: He was a star.

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Speaker 2: Hold up, hold up, Rocket gets in the laundry basket

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Speaker 5: Were at Notre Dame because he had done some amazing things. Myself,

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Speaker 5: I was a really good player and on you know,

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Speaker 5: on the cusp if you will, and everybody knew who

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Speaker 5: I was, but it wasn't the rock star uh stype

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Speaker 5: type celebrity.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but are you talking to like boy band celebrity

447
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Speaker 2: for rocket ismail? Like there were women out, girls outside

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Speaker 2: screaming and waiting for really.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it's like if he came down the elevator, you

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Speaker 5: would see a crowd rush over over there.

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Speaker 4: Where if I came down the elevator, everybody's.

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Speaker 5: You know, and I do the way, Hey if he

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Speaker 5: comes down, they were kind of rush over there.

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Speaker 2: Uh, tell me what you're doing with the Drone Bettis

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Speaker 2: Bus Stops Here Foundation.

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Speaker 4: Well, we we at the Bus Stops There Foundation.

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Speaker 5: We're you know, extremely excited about our cyber bus program.

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Speaker 5: We've got our second bus that we've been very fortunate

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Speaker 5: Bluebird donated a new electric bus to us. We've got

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Speaker 5: it retrofitted thanks to the CNX Foundation, and now we've

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Speaker 5: got we've got it ready and prepared to go to

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Speaker 5: the rural areas of Pittsburgh, Washington County, all those areas

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Speaker 5: where there's kids that still need access to the technology

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Speaker 5: that we're able to provide. And then we also have

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Speaker 5: our first bus that goes into the the housing Authority

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Speaker 5: there in Pittsburgh and represents the Bus Stops Foundation and

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Speaker 5: helps a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of kids there and parents and grandparents.

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Speaker 5: So we're just proud of the things that we're able

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Speaker 5: to accomplish there in Pittsburgh, and uh.

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Speaker 4: Just it warms my heart.

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Speaker 5: Men are our Christmas Holiday toy Drive. We're trying to

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Speaker 5: get get toys. And what we do is we give

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Speaker 5: them the families that are that are having a difficult

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Speaker 5: time uh during the holidays, that that need uh, you know,

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Speaker 5: kind of a hand up, not a handout, and and

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Speaker 5: we kind of provide that for them, uh and their

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Speaker 5: children on the uh in the holiday scenes and so

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Speaker 5: things that we're trying to do in Pittsburgh and try

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Speaker 5: to stay connected to the community.

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Speaker 2: Always great to talk to you, Bussy, Thanks again for

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Speaker 2: joining us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: It's Jerome Bettis on the program.

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Speaker 1: Be sure to catch the live edition of The Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick Show weekdays at nine am Eastern six am Pacific

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 6: Bally Foods Go Ahead with Tony Foods Go.

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Speaker 7: As everybody knows, we're the hosts of the award winning

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Speaker 7: Polly and Tony Foods Go show. But instead of us

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Speaker 7: telling how great we are, here's how Dan Patrick described

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Speaker 7: us when he came on our show.

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Speaker 2: Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated.

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Speaker 6: What what are you doing interrupting our promo?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he wasn't talking about you. You took those clips

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Speaker 1: totally of context.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, well after this promo, I'm gonna take you

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Speaker 7: out and beat you.

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Speaker 2: Let me put this into context.

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Speaker 6: Shut up.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, anyway, just listen to the Paully and Tony Fusco

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Speaker 7: Show on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts O wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Yea.

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Speaker 2: He is Mike Golick, senior, co host of Gojo and

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Speaker 2: Goliic on DraftKings Network, former defensive lineman, of course, a

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Speaker 2: member of the Fighting Irish Alumni and great to see

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Speaker 2: him again. We welcome in Mike Goldig Senior on the program.

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Speaker 2: All right, whoa there he is? Who?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: Used to be Big Mike, but not anymore. Medium Mike

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Speaker 2: is what they call him now.

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Speaker 6: Two quick things. First, sorry to do this, but we

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Speaker 6: Mike and I change networks for it, FanDuel. Now Todd, Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I'm killing sorry, Todd. I just get the memo on

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Speaker 6: the I just figured I'd get that out.

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, let me give you the correct plug.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's Golick and Golic. Now we went from Gojo

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Speaker 6: and Golic to Golo and go Gojo and Golick and

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Speaker 6: Golic FANDUL Sports Network three to five afternoon. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 6: And second thing, that second thing who said Steve Atwater

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Speaker 6: and Rodney Harrison cried, I mean seriously, I mean you

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Speaker 6: for those that aren't old enough google Steve Atwater and

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Speaker 6: Christian Okoye. Christian Nakoya was a two hundred and fifty

524
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Speaker 6: pounds back for Kansas City that ran a straight run

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Speaker 6: up the middle. Steve Atwater came and dropped him, dropped

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Speaker 6: him where he stood. And Rodney Harrison, you don't have

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Speaker 6: to say those two would snap their forearms and not cry.

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Speaker 6: So those were those I a son when I heard

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Speaker 6: those two names, but you.

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Speaker 2: Could I don't know if you can imagine this, but

531
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Speaker 2: like you have to make that business decision with Jerome Bettis,

532
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Speaker 2: there's certain players where you go this is gonna hurt.

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Speaker 6: And I've always got asked. And Jerome's rookie year was

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Speaker 6: my ninth year, my last year in the league, so

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Speaker 6: I didn't play against him. But people always ask how

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Speaker 6: would you have tackled like Derrick Henry? And I said,

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Speaker 6: as a D lineman, you don't get that back at

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Speaker 6: full speed. You know that back when they get to

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Speaker 6: the second and third level and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 6: that dB is looking at that back going okay, do

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Speaker 6: I hit him in the thigh? Do I hit him

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Speaker 6: in the ankle? Do I hit him in the chest?

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Speaker 6: And make that businesses. But as a D lineman, we

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Speaker 6: rarely got him at full speed, and we were bigger

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Speaker 6: than them.

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Speaker 2: But when you think about the running backs you played against,

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Speaker 2: like Emmett, you played against quite a bit, quite a bit,

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Speaker 2: but he wasn't fast. He was like the running back

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Speaker 2: version of Jerry Rice. It didn't seem like he was fast.

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Speaker 2: But nobody ever caught Jerry Rice from behind, and Emmett

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Speaker 2: seemed to get fat, faster better as the game went on.

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Speaker 6: That's why you know you talk about Jerry Rice running

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Speaker 6: the four to six at the combine, everyone was too slow. Well,

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Speaker 6: there's forty speed, which you rarely want to run a

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Speaker 6: straight ahead forty and there's game speed, which is a

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Speaker 6: different thing. And Emmitt could drop his shoulder and deliver

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Speaker 6: a blow as good as anybody. Tony Dorsett was a

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Speaker 6: guy you could never get a good hit on. He

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Speaker 6: always turned his body at the last moment. You could

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Speaker 6: never get a solid hit on him. Emmett Smith, I

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Speaker 6: hit as hard as I've ever hit anybody in my

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Speaker 6: life out of bounds. I had a full speed run

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Speaker 6: and he was going toward the sideline, and I mean

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Speaker 6: I clocked him, clocked him, and I hit him. And

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Speaker 6: as I was going down, I'm like, oh yeah, that

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Speaker 6: one hurt him, and he bounced up and ran right

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Speaker 6: back to I'm laying on the side and go, what

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Speaker 6: the hell just happened. It's like a boxer giving your

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Speaker 6: best puns and the dude just kind of shaking it off.

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Speaker 6: You're going, oh, well, I'm screwed.

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Speaker 2: How would you describe this rivalry with USC Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: and why is it on the cusp of ending? Oh?

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Speaker 6: I hate USC? I mean, I I hate USC.

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Speaker 2: But are you you were taught that growing up?

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, listen, I have a different perspective from

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Speaker 6: Notre Dame. My brother Bob came here as a freshman

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Speaker 6: in seventy five. I was twelve years old, so I

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Speaker 6: grew up basically coming to Notre Dame games. And then

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Speaker 6: my brother Greg came here, and I was more with

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Speaker 6: my peers before I got recruited to come here. I

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Speaker 6: mean USC recruited me, but there was never a thought.

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Speaker 6: And when both my kids both my son Mike was

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Speaker 6: a junior, he was down with Urban Meyer getting recruited

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Speaker 6: to Florida, and Jake was a sophomore and was down

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Speaker 6: there with him as a recruit. And I told the

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Speaker 6: boys there, I said, listen, don't go to Notre Dame

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Speaker 6: because me and your mother and your uncles went there.

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Speaker 6: And I rattle off everybody that went there. I said,

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Speaker 6: you go where your heart takes you. I said, except usse.

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Speaker 6: I said, you can't go to USC. That's a non starter.

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Speaker 2: Why are we on the verge of ending this rivalry?

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, listen, Notre Dame. It's gonna sit there

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Speaker 6: and people are going to listen and say, oh, he's

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Speaker 6: blaming USC, but it is on USC. Notre Dame hasn't

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Speaker 6: changed their independence, We haven't changed anything. We still play

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Speaker 6: the same schedule. No FCS schools, all FBS schools. Now

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Speaker 6: it's ACC schools, been big ten schools. But the Michigan

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Speaker 6: rivalry is somewhat over USC, and I get it to

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Speaker 6: a point where they're doing it. They're gonna have to

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Speaker 6: play They playing nine conference games and they have to

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Speaker 6: be careful of their non conference schedule to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: So there's part of me that understands their reasoning. But

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Speaker 6: then the Notre Dame part of me comes in and says,

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Speaker 6: just schedule us.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you had a scheduling, SAR, or if we

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Speaker 2: get to that point, then you're going to have Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame in Michigan, and then you would have Notre Dame

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Speaker 2: in USC. It would be mandatory. I mean, we're in

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Speaker 2: the entertainment business. That's why we've expanded the playoffs. That's

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Speaker 2: why we're going to expand March madness. I just I

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Speaker 2: would hope that there is somebody and maybe this is

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Speaker 2: ten years down the road when we have the top

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Speaker 2: forty schools in a right right yeah, and then you

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Speaker 2: can have this is your schedule this year. Maybe you

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Speaker 2: don't play USC this year, but you're playing them next year.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you play Michigan. That's what I think we need.

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Speaker 2: I worry about when you have these schools and you

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Speaker 2: take before a big game. You always have that cupcake. Now,

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Speaker 2: I know the cupcake is a payout game, right, but

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Speaker 2: it's still haven't we gotten to the point where let's

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Speaker 2: just play a really good schedule.

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean, teams are in schools are thinking about

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Speaker 6: the playoffs. But the thing about it is like Notre

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Speaker 6: Dame has two losses, two losses to the number two

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Speaker 6: and number five team in the country. If Notre Name

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Speaker 6: runs the table they're in, they're ten and two, they're

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Speaker 6: going to be in the playoffs. If they lose tomorrow,

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Speaker 6: they lose, they're going to be done. If they get

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Speaker 6: a third loss, they're going to be done because they

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Speaker 6: can't win a conference, so they're going to be done.

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Speaker 6: And they put themselves in this tough spot kind of

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Speaker 6: like last year a bit. But the two team and

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Speaker 6: when the committee looks at the two losses, as long

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Speaker 6: as those two teams keep winning, they're going to be like, well,

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Speaker 6: those are quote unquote great losses. But to play USC anymore,

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Speaker 6: it would probably be early in the season, conference games

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Speaker 6: being later in the season, so it would have to

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Speaker 6: be done early in the season if it's going to continue.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's the ninety sixth meeting. The only one

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Speaker 6: that's been longer is Notre Dame Navy, and that's ninety seven.

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Speaker 2: What was your first reaction when you saw Rudy? I mean,

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Speaker 2: it is a documentary.

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Speaker 6: Do I have to answer this question? Am I on

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Speaker 6: the hot seat for this question? There were some Hollywood

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Speaker 6: things put in there to make it a little more

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Speaker 6: than maybe what it was. So the story is great,

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Speaker 6: right of not being a recruited athlete going to Holy Cross,

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Speaker 6: finally getting your chance, but some of the things on

649
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Speaker 6: the inside of that maybe didn't happen.

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Speaker 2: So you didn't buy into this even though this is

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Speaker 2: your Alma Monter.

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Speaker 6: My brother Bob was a freshman when Rudy. When the

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Speaker 6: Rudy story, Rudy was in his last year, and my

654
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Speaker 6: brother Bob, if you ask him, he doesn't even remember.

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Speaker 6: Rudy doesn't remember. And now Rudy was defensive show team.

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Speaker 6: My brother Bob was on the defense going against the

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Speaker 6: offensive show team, so he wouldn't have a chance to

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Speaker 6: play against him on the field. But still they were teammates.

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Speaker 2: And did your brother turn in his jersey like everybody

660
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 2: else did that they weren't going to play.

661
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Speaker 6: If Rudy remember, I talked about of Hollywood embellishment. Can

662
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Speaker 6: I get a t o here? Yeah? Again? Great story, great, great,

663
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 6: you know story of a kid who wasn't a top

664
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Speaker 6: athlete getting on the team and getting in for a

665
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 6: play and such.

666
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: He's a Mike Golig senior squirming in his seat right now.

667
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 2: He is, him and his son are on a FanDuel network.

668
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 6: Todd, Sorry, Todd, Sorry.

669
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Speaker 2: It's okay. You've been consistently bad. Don't worry about it.

670
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Speaker 2: You know, how do you keep these coaches in place

671
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 2: for a longer period of time? We grew up in

672
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,640
Speaker 2: a in an era where coaches stayed for decades. But

673
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 2: here's Marcus Freeman. Who I mean, everybody loves Marcus Freeman.

674
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 2: I think they looked at him maybe for the NFL

675
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 2: last year. You know, is Penn State gonna come knocking

676
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 2: on the door? The money that is there now, you

677
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 2: know the price with you know, coach Signetti getting eleven

678
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 2: million dollars a year. How do you keep these coaches

679
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 2: in place for a long period of time?

680
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Speaker 6: First off, let me say, stay the hell away from

681
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 6: Marcus Freeman, all right, Stay away from my coach? All right?

682
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 6: He is a great coach. He's a great recruit. Why

683
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 6: they're coming after Listen. I know he just got extended

684
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 6: I think last December. If they have to, you keep

685
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 6: extending this guy as long as you have to to

686
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 6: keep him here. I mean, listen, Dan, everybody complained about

687
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,239
Speaker 6: the players having movement, and I do think while I'm

688
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 6: happy the players have movement, happy the players are getting paid,

689
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,000
Speaker 6: being able to move every single year is really really tough.

690
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 6: But coaches have been able to. I mean, Kurt Signetti

691
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 6: signed that eight year, ninety two million dollar extension and

692
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 6: he still could sign somewhere else next year if he

693
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,879
Speaker 6: wanted to, Right, he won't. He's really done an incredible

694
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,960
Speaker 6: job with that program, but he could. Extensions really mean nothing.

695
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 6: The buyout may get bigger, but you always have alumni

696
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,759
Speaker 6: that will buy it out. Dan, there's no way under

697
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 6: the current system, there's no way to stop the movement.

698
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 6: And quite honestly, head coaches don't want to stop this

699
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 6: movement because they're going to only be one new coach

700
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Speaker 6: at Penn State. But if five are talked about, those

701
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 6: other four are going to get extensions at the school

702
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 6: they're atting more money, so they don't want it to change.

703
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Speaker 2: Either what's going on with the Big Ten with this

704
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 2: pension fund and you know two billion dollars.

705
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 6: Oh, the private equity firm. I think the worry there

706
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 6: for this. It would be split. There's eighteen teams in

707
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 6: the Big Ten and then the equity firm. There'd be

708
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 6: split twenty ways. Basically, I think the one the one

709
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 6: point of contention for any kind of private equity is

710
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 6: what kind of power do they have. I understand they

711
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 6: wouldn't get a seat on the board. It all depends

712
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 6: on the power that you have. There's one thing to

713
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 6: happen to pay a portion of your money to somebody,

714
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 6: but it's another thing if that entity has power, and

715
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 6: that's what they don't want. There's already enough cooks in

716
00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 6: the kitchen already enough. You talked about the possibility of

717
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 6: just forty teams. At some point it would probably be

718
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 6: more than that. But as my son Mike and I

719
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 6: argue about this all the time, he thinks that's going

720
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 6: to happen. But I'm like, I don't think commissioners can

721
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 6: work together. Greg SANKEI would have to be the top man.

722
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 6: He's not going to accept anybody else running anything. He

723
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,680
Speaker 6: wants to run. And I don't mean that in a

724
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 6: bad way, but that's kind of the position that he's in.

725
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 6: So I have a hard time believing even the power

726
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 6: for conference commissioners could all work together to secure kind

727
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 6: of going away from the NCAA and just forming one

728
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 6: one conference.

729
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 2: March madness is going to expand. It's not a question

730
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 2: of if, but when. And I mean it used to

731
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Speaker 2: be special to make the tournament.

732
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Speaker 6: I mean, we've had so many coaches and we've had

733
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Speaker 6: John Calipari on the show, and every coach we've had

734
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 6: on is just like, why why are we You know,

735
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 6: we already have to call the play in games round one,

736
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 6: which I don't do. They're playing games. Now you're just

737
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 6: going to have more playing games. I mean I have,

738
00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 6: but a team can say we made the tournament, No

739
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,879
Speaker 6: you didn't. It's really a play in game, even though

740
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 6: you're not saying it's a playing game. I don't understand

741
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 6: why they're expanding, but.

742
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Speaker 2: We're going to expand college football playoffs.

743
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 6: We are, but I think sixteen is more palatable than

744
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Speaker 6: seventy six.

745
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 2: But we're not stopping at sixteen.

746
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 6: Oh it better stop at sixteen. I mean, how far

747
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 6: can you go? I mean you have when do you

748
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 6: start games? I already think they wait too long to

749
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,040
Speaker 6: start games. They should start them earlier. Then you get

750
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 6: into Christmas, then you get into school, which that's another thing.

751
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 6: We've we lost the student athlete moniker. But there's a

752
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 6: but the lower divisions have figured out playoffs, haven't they.

753
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 6: They've been doing it for years and they figured it off.

754
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 6: And Division One has always been like, ah, we got

755
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 6: to think about the players and the games until the

756
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 6: money gets too good, kind of like the NFL and gambling.

757
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 6: No we're not. No, can't wait a minute, how much

758
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 6: can we make? Oh? Wait, so let's have gambling. Okay,

759
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 6: So again it's no secret it's all about the money.

760
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 2: Did you know the points spreads when you were playing?

761
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 6: No, I had no idea. Quite honestly, I've worked for

762
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 6: DraftKings and FanDuel and I still don't know the point spreads.

763
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 6: I really don't. I mean, we don't talk about like

764
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 6: the gambling and this points bright the stuff on our show.

765
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 6: We just do it like a sports show, like like

766
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,160
Speaker 6: we used to do in the old days.

767
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Speaker 2: Okay, but so when you played for the Eagles, No,

768
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Speaker 2: you had no idea.

769
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Speaker 6: No, clue, zero idea, no idea, and I don't know

770
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 6: if any players did, but I had no idea at all.

771
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: Why is Notre Dame a nine and a half point

772
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 2: favorite tomorrow?

773
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 6: That seemed coming off the USC destroying of Michigan and

774
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 6: Mayava the quarterback and Lemon the receiver? How good they

775
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 6: are and the line? Their line is on their fourth combination,

776
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 6: but they've only given up four sacks. It's either two

777
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 6: strong offenses. I was surprised that the spread was as

778
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 6: big as it is, but again, as a former player,

779
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 6: I never cared about the spread. If we won by

780
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 6: a point didn't matter to me. We got the w

781
00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 6: Where are you going to be for the game? I'm

782
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 6: actually calling the game for Notre Dame Radio. Ryan Harris

783
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 6: normally does it, but he has this little thing, this

784
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 6: fiftieth Super Bowl anniversary for the Broncos that he's going to,

785
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 6: of which I wish I had a Super Bowl you know,

786
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 6: or you're need to go to. But he's going to that,

787
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 6: So I'm actually I'm actually calling the game. Awesome, Yeah,

788
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 6: that would be fun. A family here, No, I'm here

789
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 6: by myself, mulking it all in. Nobody wanted to come

790
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 6: with me.

791
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: We were at linebackers last night. Then, oh I'll be there.

792
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,800
Speaker 2: I'll be there tonight. We were there last night. Yeah, yeah,

793
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: it's uh, there is no doubt. I don't want to

794
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 2: get graphic, but there's no doubt my vomit is still

795
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 2: somewhere in there. There's no doubt that it's still in

796
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 2: there somewhere.

797
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, great place, just a great place has been changed.

798
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 6: Don't don't wear open toe shoes in there. Just don't.

799
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 2: Great to see you. Todd, my senior. He doesn't work

800
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: for drafts.

801
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 6: A few months ago ready he went from Driftings to

802
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 6: Fangil GoJ It's golic and gold. Yeah, three to five Eastern. Yeah.

803
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 6: I thought I would text at you, but I was like,

804
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 6: I was like, he screwed up. He's a phenomenal producer.

805
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 6: He knows.

806
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 4: Times of change.

807
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Fox the big noon kickoff at Michigan and

808
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 2: they're going to be in Utah. So me on Thursday.

809
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 2: Once Friday, it's yeah, big intro to Brady Quinn. He's like, uh,

810
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 2: I'm not Michigan. I'm not in Michigan.

811
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Speaker 6: You did play it Notre dame though he did.

812
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 7: When you got that right calling the game for no

813
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 7: game on the weak.

814
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 6: There you go, You're like hitting three hundred. You'd be

815
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 6: a multimillionaire in basis.

816
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Speaker 2: Mike Golic Senior. And you'll find him on.

817
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 6: Andlic. Know I got that gojo from Goolic on FanDuel.

818
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 2: How about we cut our losses. We'll take a break.

819
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

820
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,360
Speaker 1: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

821
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 1: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

822
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:37,359
Speaker 1: listen live.

823
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Speaker 2: I forgot about this, but our next guest, he's the

824
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Speaker 2: athletic director here at Notre Dame, Pete Babaqua. I think

825
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 2: he was my boss at NBC Ecock at one point,

826
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Speaker 2: although I never saw him. I don't know if we

827
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Speaker 2: had any communication.

828
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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, that's the best kind of boss.

829
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I I just remembered he worked at NBC

830
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Speaker 2: Sports and ran NBC Sports, but I didn't come in

831
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Speaker 2: contact with it. Yeah, Paul.

832
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 6: Then he went in the portal and Notre Dame picked up.

833
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 2: Yeah they did. But the nil I mean, he's done

834
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: a really good job here as we welcome the Notre

835
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 2: Dame athletic director, Pete Mabakwell, thanks guys.

836
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Speaker 1: Thank you.

837
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 2: Oh whoa, Okay, what have we got? We got gifts here?

838
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:23,280
Speaker 6: Oh our new our new hockey jersey.

839
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,200
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is the unveiling of the hockey jersey

840
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 2: that will be on display.

841
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 8: Wow, tonight we're gonna We're gonna wear it tonight. We

842
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 8: play tonight again against Saint Lawrence. We had a nice victory.

843
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 8: I think a bunch of you guys were there.

844
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 2: They were there.

845
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 8: I had a nice victory last night at ATE two,

846
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 8: and hopefully we can keep it going.

847
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Speaker 2: That is awesome.

848
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 8: We also I have some of your old performance reviews.

849
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Speaker 8: You do, yeah, sit down and talk about that.

850
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 6: Wait?

851
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 2: Were you my boss? At some point?

852
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 6: I was?

853
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, But why didn't I talk to you?

854
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,200
Speaker 2: You know, I was busy, and why didn't you talk

855
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 2: to me?

856
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,240
Speaker 8: I re talked.

857
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 2: Did you think I did a good job?

858
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 8: I thought you did a really good job.

859
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, we Why am I not there anymore?

860
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 8: There's there's new bosses.

861
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, and I mentioned this. I

862
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 2: don't know if I'm overstating it. You probably would think

863
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: I am. But I look at Sank and Patiti and

864
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,839
Speaker 2: I look at you, as you know, probably the three

865
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 2: most important people in college football, the SEC commissioner, Big

866
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 2: ten and you here at Notre Dame and you take

867
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: over for Jack Swarbrick, who was one of the most

868
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 2: influential people we probably had with this sport. Sometime, do

869
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,799
Speaker 2: you feel like you guys are the gatekeepers here and

870
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: if so, what goes along with that?

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Speaker 8: Well, I would tell you, first of all, it's it's

872
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 8: not me, it's Notre Dame. I mean, Notre Dame is

873
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Speaker 8: there in that position. You talk about the history of

874
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 8: Notre Dame football, the power Notre Dame football, the power

875
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 8: of the brand. I'm the I'm the caretaker of that,

876
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 8: you know, and I couldn't be more honored or feel

877
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 8: more fortunate to be in this position. And I take

878
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 8: that responsibility very very seriously. That I'm in that room

879
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 8: having those conversations with Greg Sankey, Tody Petiti, Jimmy Phillips

880
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 8: at the ACC, Brett Yormark at the Big twelve, and others,

881
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 8: and you know, we have a very definite point of view,

882
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 8: We have a perspective what Notre Dame believes in. Being

883
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 8: independent in the space, as you've mentioned in the past,

884
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 8: is certainly a unique attribute to the position we hold

885
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 8: in college football and it's a great privilege to be

886
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 8: in that room. I love being in that room. I

887
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,720
Speaker 8: love being a part of those conversations, and we're hall

888
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,440
Speaker 8: hopefully united and aligned in certainly doing what's best. A

889
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 8: commissioner has to always have the perspective of what's best

890
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 8: for his or her conference. I have to have the

891
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,759
Speaker 8: perspective of what's best for Notre Dame. But I think

892
00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 8: we all hope to share a common ground of what's

893
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,280
Speaker 8: best for the future health of college football.

894
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:53,240
Speaker 2: Okay, but what is that? There have been different models

895
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 2: that have been put out there, and I just it

896
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 2: feels like it's inevitable we're going to get to an

897
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 2: NFL or Premier League type of format. Could you get

898
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 2: sixty teams fifty forty teams and almost secede from the NCAA.

899
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 8: Yeah, Dan, there's the concept of this super league. Are

900
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,200
Speaker 8: there twenty four to thirty teams that extricate themselves from

901
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 8: the college football space and create a mini NFL? I,

902
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 8: for one, I think that's a horrible mistake. College Football's

903
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 8: not the NFL.

904
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 6: We shouldn't be.

905
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 8: The NFL were something different. We're something that's special. The crowds,

906
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 8: the alumni bases, the fact that these are eighteen to

907
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 8: twenty one year olds that change and graduate. There's a

908
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:34,800
Speaker 8: power to that. And I think in trying to replicate

909
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 8: the NFL model, where there might be some more revenue there,

910
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 8: particularly from a media standpoint, I think we'll ruin what's special.

911
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 8: We won't look like the NFL, will look like a

912
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:48,959
Speaker 8: small version, a compromise version of the NFL, and we'll

913
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 8: lose what's so special about what's going to happen here

914
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,839
Speaker 8: tomorrow night. When you have two great, storied programs from

915
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 8: great schools coming together, this wonderful rivalry. You know, you

916
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 8: have the Notre Dame US, the Ohio State, Michigan's that's

917
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,760
Speaker 8: what makes college football so special.

918
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 2: But we're losing these rivalries. We may lose USC Notre Dame.

919
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 8: Well, I would say, and I can't speak for USC,

920
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 8: but in the conversations we've had, I think both schools,

921
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 8: both administrations are committed to keeping this series alive. We've

922
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 8: had a lot of positive conversations with USC. They're continuing

923
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 8: literally around the clock. My hope, and I think USC

924
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:30,839
Speaker 8: shares this and I know they share it. We want

925
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 8: to keep this series going. It's so special. It's hey,

926
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 8: I'll be the first two admitte It's great for Notre Dame.

927
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 8: I think it's great for USC, and maybe most importantly,

928
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 8: I think it's great for college football. This is one

929
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 8: of those rivalries that defined college football, define the sport,

930
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 8: the greatest intersectional rivalry that there is. And I think

931
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 8: the public deserves it. I think the college fans deserve it.

932
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 8: All the pageantry of a Notre Dame USC game. You

933
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 8: think about the importance of this game over the history

934
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 8: of college football. How many national championships were influenced and

935
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 8: determined the Heisman Trophy winners. And I understand, you know,

936
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,359
Speaker 8: with the Big Ten, the conference schedules, you know, more

937
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 8: conference matchups, that's tough, that's difficult travel for USC now

938
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,799
Speaker 8: that they're in the Big Ten. But you know, I

939
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 8: just think college football deserves it. I know we feel

940
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 8: that way. I know USC feels that way. And you know,

941
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 8: for us, we're lucky that we have a long list

942
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 8: of really prominent teams that want to play us. They

943
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 8: want to do home and homes, they want us to

944
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 8: come to their stadiums, they want to come here to

945
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 8: Notre Dame and you know, that's great, and that's a

946
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 8: fortunate position to be in. And that's the power of

947
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 8: Notre Dame and the power of the program under coach Freeman.

948
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 8: But there's something really special about Notre Dame USC, and

949
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:49,800
Speaker 8: no matter how either team season is going, anything can happen.

950
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 8: You can make a team a more difficult road to

951
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 8: a national championship, you can have an upset. It's just

952
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 8: a wonderful history there that I hope we don't lose.

953
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, So at this point where we have to

954
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 2: negotiate around the clock to keep this going, if everybody

955
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 2: understands the beauty of this rivalry, the importance of this rivalry.

956
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 8: I think it's scheduling and now the Big Ten schedule

957
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 8: and the nine games that they play. When you look

958
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 8: at our schedule into the future, and we're talking about

959
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 8: moments in the calendar month that makes sense for US

960
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 8: and for USC, I think there's no secret that US

961
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 8: would like to play our game earlier in the season.

962
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 8: So I'm working hand in hand with somebody who's so

963
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 8: important to our program, Ron Palace, who's a name everybody knows,

964
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:35,280
Speaker 8: and Ron is kind of mapping out what our future

965
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,360
Speaker 8: looks like twenty six, twenty seven, well into the thirties,

966
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 8: and where could we position this game. So it's a

967
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 8: win win for us when we go out there and

968
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,680
Speaker 8: when USC comes here and visits. I'm hopeful. I'm optimistic.

969
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 8: Nothing is finalized, but I'm optimistic that we'll get something done.

970
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 2: He's a Pete Bbaqua Notre Dame athletic director. But I

971
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:57,239
Speaker 2: understand from USC's perspective, it feels like Notre Dame may

972
00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,919
Speaker 2: need USC more than USC needs Notre Dame because Notre

973
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 2: has a tough Big ten schedule and they don't want

974
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 2: to jeopardize, you know, another loss, because if you have

975
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 2: three losses, you're not going to make like tomorrow's an

976
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 2: elimination game. It feels like for Notre Dame.

977
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's you know, we you know, we

978
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 8: have a tough schedule this year. We opened up with

979
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 8: two very tough competitive games, obviously with Miami, who's now

980
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 8: I think number two in the country in Texas A

981
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 8: and m We lost to Miami by three points. There

982
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,440
Speaker 8: in our opening game, we lost to Texas A and

983
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 8: m here by a point. Then we've you know, we've

984
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 8: had this great stretch of four victories in a row.

985
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,600
Speaker 6: But no, hey, no doubt about it.

986
00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 8: If we want to make the CFP, and we do,

987
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 8: we got to go win tomorrow night. We know that

988
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 8: our team knows that, Marcus knows that. But I'll push

989
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 8: back on you. I think this game is just as

990
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 8: important for USC as it is for Notre Dame, and

991
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 8: just as important for college football. And if you're USC,

992
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 8: you want this tradition. You want to play Notre Dame.

993
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 8: You want Notre Dame to come out to the coliseum.

994
00:48:54,239 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 8: You know, just like when USC's here, we'll pack the

995
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 8: house the South Bend. There'll be one hundred more or

996
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,040
Speaker 8: thousand people coming into South Bend, even people who can't

997
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 8: get in the stadium, just to be a part of

998
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 8: the pageantry in the atmosphere. Well, that happens when we

999
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 8: go out to the coliseum. It's packed. The surrounding area

1000
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 8: has packed. It has such a benefit for the campus,

1001
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 8: for the community.

1002
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 6: And when you.

1003
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 8: Take two great historic brands from wonderful schools and you're

1004
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 8: able to have this great contest on the football field

1005
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 8: year in and year out, there's tremendous value for the

1006
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 8: entire eCos.

1007
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:28,839
Speaker 2: Well, I don't want to lose it. But I don't

1008
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:30,320
Speaker 2: want to lose Notre Dame in Michigan.

1009
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 6: Well I would.

1010
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,839
Speaker 8: I'd love to play Michigan, you know, And I think

1011
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 8: that's something we're going to work toward. I think that's

1012
00:49:39,120 --> 00:49:40,919
Speaker 8: one of you know, I think back to my time here.

1013
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 8: I graduated in nineteen ninety three.

1014
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 2: If you join the Big Ten, then you get to

1015
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 2: play these teams. Yeah, but we just let me know.

1016
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 2: I hear you and the Big Ten, Hey, no, there's

1017
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 2: was it ever close? Big Ten's a wonderful conference. I

1018
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 2: don't think it was ever close. You know, there's the

1019
00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 2: Big Ten, the SEC, the Big twelve, the ACC. As

1020
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 2: you know, we're a member of the ACC for twenty

1021
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 2: four of our twenty six sports or Big ten in hockey,

1022
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 2: and obviously independent in football.

1023
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 8: I think it's a great time to be independent. And

1024
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 8: we're sure we're a unicorn. But we have a wonderful

1025
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 8: relationship with NBC thirty five years in counting. We have

1026
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 8: the luxury and we're fortunate to schedule great teams. Think

1027
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 8: about this year we had Miami, Texas, A and m

1028
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 8: we play USC. Going into the future, we have Alabama,

1029
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 8: we have Texas, we have some others that we're close

1030
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 8: to announcing. And I love the fact that the freedom

1031
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 8: we have from playing teams that make sense, playing in

1032
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:40,799
Speaker 8: areas that we want to play in, whether it's going

1033
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 8: to New York City, going out to Los Angeles, playing

1034
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 8: in the Yankee Stadium next year, opening up the season

1035
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 8: in Lambeau against Wisconsin, going to Ireland thinking hey, can

1036
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 8: we go play a game in Mexico City. You have

1037
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 8: the luxury of that when you're independent. But to be independent,

1038
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 8: you have to be good, and we know that that's

1039
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:01,760
Speaker 8: an obligation, that's a responsibility.

1040
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 6: We have to be good.

1041
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,360
Speaker 8: We have to stay relevant. We have to knock on

1042
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 8: that national championship door year in and year out. Because

1043
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 8: to stay independent, we have to be impossible to ignore.

1044
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 8: You have to be a unicorn, but you don't want to.

1045
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 8: You can't let the unicorn get starved. And that's tremendous

1046
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:21,720
Speaker 8: pressure on the program, on our athletic department, on coach Freeman.

1047
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 8: But it's pressure that we welcome and I think we

1048
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 8: thrive on.

1049
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 2: If you add the deciding vote of expanding the playoffs

1050
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 2: from twelve to let's say sixteen.

1051
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 8: One hundred percent answer in my opinion, sixteen teams is

1052
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 8: the way we should go. Five automatic qualifiers, one each

1053
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 8: for the power for conference champions, one for the highest

1054
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 8: CHI five G five champion, eleven at large. Prove it

1055
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 8: on the field. If we're lucky enough to be in,

1056
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 8: we're in. If because we're independent, we have three losses

1057
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:51,879
Speaker 8: or four losses.

1058
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 6: And we're out, we're out.

1059
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 8: I think there's almost unanimity in that feeling, and I

1060
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,239
Speaker 8: hope that's we end up. I feel passionate about that.

1061
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,440
Speaker 8: I think it's the best thing for college football. I

1062
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 8: think it's the best thing for the future college football.

1063
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 8: Look at the top ten this year, look at the

1064
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 8: different teams in there. Look at the success that Texas

1065
00:52:12,840 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 8: Tech is having.

1066
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 6: You want that.

1067
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 8: You want every team to wake up at the end

1068
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 8: of the summer and they as they go into their

1069
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 8: first game and say, hey, if we do it, if

1070
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 8: we get it done, if we go twelve and zero,

1071
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:25,839
Speaker 8: if we go eleven and one, if we schedule tough

1072
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 8: opponents and have a strong strength to schedule, we can

1073
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 8: earn our way in there. Nobody wants a head start.

1074
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,719
Speaker 8: That's not the way to do it. We want to

1075
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 8: prove that we can identify a true national championship a

1076
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 8: team that's earned in on the field, And I feel very.

1077
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,439
Speaker 2: Strongly, yeah, but can we lock in sixteen? We got

1078
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 2: to twelve and went we were already going, well, we

1079
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 2: got to get to fourteen or sixteen?

1080
00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think what I love about I think the

1081
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 8: move from four to twelve was terrific and smart. I

1082
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 8: think the move from twelve to sixteen brings additional teams in.

1083
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 8: Obviously the four additional teams, it creates those four additional

1084
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 8: narrative around the country, brings those fan bases in, brings

1085
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 8: in other geographies. Yet there's that delicate balance that I

1086
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 8: think it achieves and maintains of identifying a true national

1087
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,840
Speaker 8: championship but protecting the integrity and the importance of that

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00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:16,800
Speaker 8: of the regular season. And there's no sport where the

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00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 8: regular season games are more important than they are in

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00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 8: college football. Here we are in Week seven and we

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00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 8: have a game tomorrow night that for us will determine

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00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 8: whether we can make the playoffs or whether we're on

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00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 8: the outside looking in. That doesn't happen in other sports,

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00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 8: and that's the beauty of college football. That's why there's

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00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 8: so much passion around these games. And you mentioned games

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00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 8: this weekend that are so important, Teams that can't afford

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00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 8: to lose again, teams that need to quality win. That's

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00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 8: the beauty of college football and I we can't lose.

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00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 8: That be a shame if we lost that.

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Speaker 2: Do you have uniform approval?

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00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 8: I have uniform input, input input. So you know Marcus,

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00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 8: who's probably one of the two or three most stylish

1103
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 8: men in America, he is a lot of input. We

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00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 8: tend to defer to him. We have color combinations that

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00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 8: we like, and then he works with our very talented

1106
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 8: team and with our partner under Armour to put the

1107
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,520
Speaker 8: uniforms out there. But I get a sense that's a

1108
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 8: leading question. Are you thinking about a uniform that we

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00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 8: haven't debuted yet?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm just curious. Is there anything like a bold

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00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 2: move that you would make for a one off?

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Speaker 8: Well, you think about our Shamrock series. We've had some

1113
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:28,800
Speaker 8: really creative uniforms, you think when.

1114
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 2: We mean, I love the helmet with the shamrock on.

1115
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think we see though the gold helmet as Sakrasay, Okay,

1116
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 8: I don't think we're gonna monkey around with the helmets anymore.

1117
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,360
Speaker 8: That gold helmet is as good as it gets. I'm biased.

1118
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 8: I think it's the best helmet in college football. But

1119
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 8: you think about when we went to Yankee Stadium for

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00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 8: the Shamrock Series a few years back with the pinstripes,

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00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 8: what we did last year when we went to Yankee

1122
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 8: Stadium for the Army game.

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Speaker 6: What we're going to do.

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Speaker 8: Next year at Lambeau, what we did a couple of

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Speaker 8: weeks ago in the all green uniforms. I love when

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00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 8: we use the white on white with the gold helmets

1127
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 8: when we're away. So we're gonna, you know, we work

1128
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 8: with under armour. We want to change it up. The

1129
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:06,839
Speaker 8: fans love it.

1130
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Speaker 2: But you would do that the leprechaun on the front, like,

1131
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 2: but you.

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Speaker 8: Can't put the leprechaun on for you need the number,

1133
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 8: but you can't do a no. You will see that

1134
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 8: are we have the sports specific leprechauns. We debuted the

1135
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,240
Speaker 8: football one that that you guys that we've been wearing

1136
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 8: a few weeks ago, and the fans love it. Coach

1137
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 8: Freeman loves it. We have the hockey leprechaun. We're going

1138
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 8: to do that in more sports. You will see that

1139
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 8: football leprechaun start to move into certain positions on some

1140
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:35,920
Speaker 8: of our football uniforms, but unlike the hockey sweater, it

1141
00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:37,319
Speaker 8: won't be on the front or the back.

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00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 2: Can you give me an idea of how much merchandise

1143
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:43,399
Speaker 2: you guys do well, I would tell you we did

1144
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 2: a lot yesterday to let you know. That's a two

1145
00:55:47,320 --> 00:55:50,280
Speaker 2: story got a bookstore full of merchants.

1146
00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 8: It's like saxvixth Avenue.

1147
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 2: Yes, like this has to be. You must do more

1148
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 2: merchandise than any other program in America.

1149
00:55:56,320 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 8: I think you know, we're lucky. We have such a

1150
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 8: great passionate national, international fan base that Notre Dame logo.

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00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 8: Whether you're in South Bend, Indiana, or New York City

1152
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 8: or Beijing, people know what it is. It means something.

1153
00:56:13,120 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 8: And then, to the credit of the university and to

1154
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,600
Speaker 8: the credit of our partners, like under Armor, we come

1155
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 8: up with, you know, really interesting designs that appeal to people.

1156
00:56:21,040 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 8: And then, as I say, you put it on Marcus Freeman,

1157
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 8: put him on television for three and a half hours

1158
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 8: on a Saturday afternoon or a Saturday night, and everybody

1159
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 8: wants what what Marcus wears. Now, the unfortunate thing is

1160
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 8: not everybody looks as good as as Marcus.

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Speaker 6: Does you guys.

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00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 2: Do your results may vary? Can you get the Pope?

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00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 8: He's a cell Sider, he's a southsiderbody, but he is

1164
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:43,839
Speaker 8: a villainovgrad.

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00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they don't have football.

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00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 8: They don't have football. We're we think the pope's a fan.

1167
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:51,840
Speaker 8: We are Provost John McGreevey and our president.

1168
00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 2: Maybe you know, fighting iris and he's wearing the hockey.

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00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 8: A little blue and gold and green. It would be

1170
00:56:57,000 --> 00:56:58,919
Speaker 8: nice something to work on, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having us hosting us people here behind the

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Speaker 2: scenes did a wonderful job. Could not have been more accommodating.

1173
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Speaker 2: And uh it is uh And I don't know if

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Speaker 2: an honorary degree is like in play now, but I

1175
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 2: mean i'll throw it out there.

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00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 8: We well, we we're thrilled here here.

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Speaker 6: I love the show that personally know that.

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00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 8: That's why I I'll take it up with our president

1179
00:57:21,640 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 8: father Bob.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, fair enough. I mean I graduated from Dayton,

1181
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 2: so maybe yeah, maybe like a graduate degree, you know.

1182
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 8: So well you can come back and get on an

1183
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 8: advanced degree.

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00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 2: A doctorate something like that.

1185
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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Pete Notre Dame Athletic Director