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One Leg Up on ND Football With First and Gold Pod Host Peter Jay Mulroy of The Irish Tribune 9-7-2024 · OneLegUpAlex Sports

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Speaker 1: Well, we're here in New York City, but you know,
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Speaker 1: the love of the Irish extend beyond South Bend obviously,
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Speaker 1: and here in New York City, I find that if
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Speaker 1: you're not part of the Notre Dame Club of New
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Speaker 1: York or something like that, you won't find many Irish
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Speaker 1: fans except I found one. Pete molroy is on my line.
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Speaker 1: You are the host of the first in Gold pod.
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Speaker 1: First of all, thanks for joining me for the first
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Speaker 1: time as we're talking to Irish football today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it, brother, It's it's funny you say
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Speaker 2: it with you know, with New York, a lot of
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Speaker 2: the Subway alum contingent for the university. You know, there's
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Speaker 2: a big following in New York, New Jersey, you know
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Speaker 2: me and in particular living in Staten Island. There is
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Speaker 2: a club of Staten Island. There's a specific New York club,
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Speaker 2: there's an Orange County club. So there's a lot of them.
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Speaker 3: You know that. Do you know?
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Speaker 2: Even beyond the media, it's the service work that the
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Speaker 2: university does and that's the big thing that giving back
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Speaker 2: to the community and helping, you know, perspective Notre Dame
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Speaker 2: students that want to go to the school that have
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Speaker 2: gone to the school, and then just really bolstering various
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Speaker 2: communities by helping those in need, whether they have an
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Speaker 2: attachment to the university or not.
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Speaker 3: So it's great, it.
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Speaker 1: Is And hopefully me and b you and I will
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Speaker 1: get to the the gipperg gal they have here in
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Speaker 1: New York. That sounds pretty cool. We got to look
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Speaker 1: into that. But anyway, you're also part of the Irish Tribune.
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Speaker 1: And here's my first question, why they hate for Marcus
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Speaker 1: Freeman after that first half. He did a great job
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Speaker 1: this whole game, and yet people were calling first firing
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Speaker 1: and we're only in, you know, the first half of
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Speaker 1: the game against A and M. I don't understand the
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Speaker 1: psychology of any sports fan that says that just a
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Speaker 1: few minutes into the season. What do you think of that?
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Speaker 1: Let's start there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's always it's always interesting, you know,
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Speaker 2: in any sport when there's a first right the first
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Speaker 2: game of the season, first play of the season, first
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Speaker 2: quarter of the season. I think overwhelmingly with this fan base,
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Speaker 2: unless I'm totally missing something, there is support behind you know,
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Speaker 2: coach Freeman, as there should be, because you know, he
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Speaker 2: lives and breathes Notre Dame. Uh, just from talking to
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Speaker 2: someboddies out there, he's he's as Notre Dame as they come.
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Speaker 2: And of course at a very good playing career at
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Speaker 2: Ohio State and play the National Football League. But from
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Speaker 2: a Notre Dame perspective, he's what you want on and
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Speaker 2: off the field. You know what, I think a product
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Speaker 2: you know of that play in the first half, when
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Speaker 2: you think about it, it's that environment, right, fourth largest
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Speaker 2: game in A and M history from a per person
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Speaker 2: you know, angle in that stadium, which gets loud as
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Speaker 2: you know, you know, I think that definitely plays a
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Speaker 2: role in that a part in it.
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Speaker 3: But but overall, when you go into into.
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Speaker 2: A hostile environment like an SEC country and you don't
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Speaker 2: turn the football over, uh, that's great coaching. Yeah, the
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Speaker 2: players got to do it and they have to execute.
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Speaker 2: But when you have a plan like that, and the
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Speaker 2: plan was to communicate, stay calm, stay within yourselves, and
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Speaker 2: play within yourselves. Look, Notre Dame did and you saw
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Speaker 2: any adjustments that needed to be made from the first
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Speaker 2: half to the second half that were made, and I
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Speaker 2: think it as well, it was to execute with that
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Speaker 2: ground game and you saw how good Notre Dames defense is.
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Speaker 2: It starts from the top and the coaching I thought
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Speaker 2: was really good and it just continues to get better.
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Speaker 1: Well, as we were texting, by the way, I said,
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Speaker 1: you know, a game like that against USC they would
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Speaker 1: have won it because I remember they gave up that
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Speaker 1: game in the very last few minutes. And if then
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Speaker 1: that defense last year, what a difference that season would
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Speaker 1: have made. But how did he adjust this defense? Let's
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Speaker 1: start there. I mean, Riley Leonard seemed like a good pickup,
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Speaker 1: but the defense was was a troublesome part last year,
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Speaker 1: wasn't it.
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 2: I think overall, I think, you know, if you go
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Speaker 2: back a year, just across the board, there had been
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Speaker 2: questions about, you know, the quarterback play from from Sam
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Speaker 2: Hartmon in big spots, obviously, the growth of the wide
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Speaker 2: receiver room, and there were, you know, layers of issues
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Speaker 2: outside of having great talent, there were some problems that
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Speaker 2: existed there from a coaching perspective. Obviously they made those
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Speaker 2: changes and then just from you know, from a production standpoint.
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Speaker 2: But as far as the defense you saw, I mean,
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Speaker 2: last year's Notre Dame defense was very good. But this
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Speaker 2: is a different animal.
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Speaker 3: This year.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's you saw that Saturday night. You know,
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Speaker 2: an elite defense when you hold your opponent to four
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Speaker 2: for thirteen on third down. Now, Notre Dame offensively has
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Speaker 2: got to be better on third down in their own right.
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Speaker 2: I think they were two of twelve or two of
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Speaker 2: thirteen on third down. But you know, four of thirteen
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Speaker 2: to the opposition on third down, you stop them twice
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Speaker 2: on fourth down. The defense gave up one hundred passing
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Speaker 2: yards to one hundred and forty six on the ground.
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Speaker 2: So you held an SEC team that came in ran
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Speaker 2: twentieth in the country to less than two hundred and
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Speaker 2: fifty total yards, and you won the turnover battle and
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Speaker 2: you forced two interceptions with what very well may be
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Speaker 2: the best secondary in America. So yeah, it was was
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Speaker 2: last year's defense. Good, Yes, were their problem? Sure is
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Speaker 2: this defense on a completely different level. I think we
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Speaker 2: learned that pretty quick. Even with the first the opening
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Speaker 2: drivet A and M, they were on the MOVEE. You
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Speaker 2: held in the three so little bend, but don't break
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Speaker 2: their force. The turnovers that you got, and you give
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Speaker 2: your offense an opportunity to win, which is exactly what happened.
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Speaker 1: Now A New Jersey native made the first interception of
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Speaker 1: the season for for Notre Dame. What can you tell
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Speaker 1: us about that quarterback there? What a great inte.
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Speaker 2: Well, look, when you're looking, you know, across the board defensively,
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Speaker 2: if it's if it's someone like a Don Schuler, you know,
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Speaker 2: I thought, you know, outside of even the way Schuler played,
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Speaker 2: I thought, you know, Jordan Botello, who you know, was
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Speaker 2: someone who was sort of aligned during the off season,
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Speaker 2: had a big game. But yeah, when you look at
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Speaker 2: that secondary and you're able to lean on you know, Schuler,
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Speaker 2: who had a very active high school career out at Irvington,
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Speaker 2: and then you put him in that secondary with you know,
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Speaker 2: with regular playing times alongside Jaden Mickey, Christian Gray, Benjamin
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Speaker 2: Morris and Xavier Watts, who was the best defensive player
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Speaker 2: in the country a year ago. You know, good things
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Speaker 2: are gonna happen. And at all three levels. When you're
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Speaker 2: able to have someone liking a Don Schuler, who you know,
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Speaker 2: let's not forget it is only a sophomore, you know,
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Speaker 2: really good things are gonna happen. And you saw not
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Speaker 2: just the interception, but the way he played throughout the
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Speaker 2: game with a couple of tackles, getting up there, knocking
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Speaker 2: passes down, be very active beyond the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think from top.
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Speaker 2: To bottom there that was as complete a defensive effort
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Speaker 2: as you could ask for. And to get it week
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Speaker 2: one on the road with the eyes of the nation
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Speaker 2: on you was pretty special.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I mean I was. I was sort
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Speaker 1: of because I was up at five in the morning,
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Speaker 1: so I was in and out of, you know, resting.
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Speaker 1: But when I saw that last album, like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: this is a different Irish team, Like I just I
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Speaker 1: noticed a very big difference. And you know, part of this,
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Speaker 1: I would say, is Freeman's now settled into the coaching role.
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Speaker 1: Remember how we got thrust in there because Brian Kelly
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Speaker 1: couldn't stand to do one more game, right that that
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Speaker 1: big Bowl game he'll leave before. Don't even got me
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Speaker 1: sorry about Brian Kelly. I just it just it just
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Speaker 1: bothers me. But here he is a lot of people
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Speaker 1: real three years in and I think he's a lot
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Speaker 1: more comfortable than he's been the last couple of years
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Speaker 1: as coach.
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Speaker 3: Well you get you get that year year three storyline.
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Speaker 2: As Notre Dame fans like to so often do right
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Speaker 2: who you know that the success in year three, you
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Speaker 2: know for Brian Kelly getting to a national title game. Uh,
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Speaker 2: you know lou in eighty eight and you know Era
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Speaker 2: and Leahy and all had you know, a good third
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Speaker 2: year and it's it's off to a hell of a
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Speaker 2: star for for coach Freeman and company. But again, I
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Speaker 2: you know, I think the big thing here when you
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Speaker 2: talk about what Notre Dame wants to do, and they
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Speaker 2: have the same goals as every other major team in
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Speaker 2: the country. Any team that competes for a championship has
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Speaker 2: the same ultimate.
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Speaker 3: Goal, regardless of sport, regardless of level.
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Speaker 2: But the best thing, you know, the thing I think
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Speaker 2: I appreciate the most from this coaching staff is everything
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Speaker 2: you hear from Coach Freeman.
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Speaker 3: And it starts with.
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Speaker 2: Him, Al Golden, Mike den Brook, whoever it might be,
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Speaker 2: Joe Rudolph, the offensive line coach. You know that there's
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Speaker 2: a willingness and a desire and legitimate desire to prioritize
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Speaker 2: the relationships with these student athletes as human beings, and
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Speaker 2: I think that goes a long way. There were moments
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Speaker 2: Saturday night where you had some troublesome snaps early on.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's no panic from Riley Leonard as much
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Speaker 2: as that's a testament to the kid being in a
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Speaker 2: fifty year even though he's in a new spot in
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Speaker 2: South Bend. That's coaching, that's getting these young men ready
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Speaker 2: for chaos and for you know, troublesome things that are
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Speaker 2: going to happen throughout a game, because it will. How
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Speaker 2: you respond in many cases, and I think we saw
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Speaker 2: it Saturday is a testament to you know, go to
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Speaker 2: bed in Notre Dames case Saturday, it was very good
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Speaker 2: how you respond based on how you're being coached and
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Speaker 2: how you're being led. So the mission is there week
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Speaker 2: to week, do your job, hold yourself accountable, communicate and
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Speaker 2: and don't let the moment become too big. And that's
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Speaker 2: and I a's across the board for the Irish in
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Speaker 2: that regard, and it starts at the top.
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Speaker 1: All right, and Riley Leonard I noted you know there
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Speaker 1: he and Daniel Jones are gonna be the two duke quarterback.
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Speaker 1: You know, esteem folks impacting my mute and mood on
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Speaker 1: the weekends because I mean, look, you got him with
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Speaker 1: the Irish, you got Daniel Dundle to the Giants. But
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Speaker 1: Riley Leonard. First of all, Sam Harmon not playing in
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Speaker 1: the ball game heavily bothered me.
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Speaker 4: Did that bother you last year? Or what?
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Speaker 2: Look, it's the world we live in, right, He's not
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Speaker 2: the first, he won't be the last. And you know,
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Speaker 2: when you take that from a you know, personal perspective,
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Speaker 2: a career perspective, it's hard, you know, to to crush
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Speaker 2: a guy for that one you've got, you know, potentially millions.
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Speaker 3: On the line. You know there will be many guys
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Speaker 3: that will will play in these Bowl games, as we've seen,
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Speaker 3: But that seems sort of seems to be the direction.
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Speaker 2: Was it eating away of me? No, it creates opportunity.
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Speaker 2: You're getting a glimpse of the future. Anyway, with most
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Speaker 2: of these Bowl games, especially usually on both lines, you
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Speaker 2: see some you know, new guys that might not have
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Speaker 2: gotten a lot of reps as we saw last year.
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Speaker 2: But you know, you knew you were going a new
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Speaker 2: direction this year. It was just a matter of would
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Speaker 2: it be someone like Steve Angeli, would it be Kenny Minshee, CJ.
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Speaker 3: Carr, or would you go to the portal?
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Speaker 2: Ultimately went to the portal, kept those other guys but
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Speaker 2: Riley Leonard, you know, following two offseason surgery still wins
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Speaker 2: the job and plays relatively well.
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Speaker 3: Week one, I thought that was big.
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Speaker 1: And Angelly had a great bowl game. I remember that
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Speaker 1: like it was yesterday. But let me let me say,
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Speaker 1: Riley Leonard looked strong. And you know, the quarterback position
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Speaker 1: is such a revered position at Notre Dame. So do
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Speaker 1: you feel like he had some shoes to fill as
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Speaker 1: a transfer, not even just as a freshman. He's a
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Speaker 1: transfer filling in some shoes.
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Speaker 2: Here is the look I think you can obviously there's
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Speaker 2: room for growth, you know, eighteen of thirty overall, so
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Speaker 2: you know, your completion percentage is you know, down a
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Speaker 2: little bit less than one hundred and sixty yards.
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Speaker 3: But there were instances there where you.
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Speaker 2: Know, that Texas A and M line, I'm sure there's
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Speaker 2: somewhat disappointed with themselves, you know, going up against that younger.
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Speaker 3: Notre Dame O line.
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Speaker 2: But you know, overall, you know, I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of that the opportunity to take some chances down the field.
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Speaker 2: As that O line grows and gels together as a
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Speaker 2: cohesive unit of what will be basically five you can
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Speaker 2: rotate in six or seven throughout the game, but they'll
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Speaker 2: be with that regular starting line most of the time.
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Speaker 2: As that continues to gel, the quarterback numbers will improve
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Speaker 2: because you see how physically strong Riley Leonard is, how
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Speaker 2: he does with the rush when they can get him
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Speaker 2: on the move. I mean he ran the ball twelve
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Speaker 2: times for almost sixty five yards, So you have that opportunity.
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Speaker 2: The passing game will be there, and I think that
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Speaker 2: was more of a product of a very fast Texas
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Speaker 2: A and M defense up front. But to have, you know,
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Speaker 2: the veteran leadership of Riley Leonard, who's you know, I
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Speaker 2: guess the knock on him coming in was the ability
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Speaker 2: or inability I should say, according to some of throwing
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Speaker 2: the ball down the field. But I think in week
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Speaker 2: one you made the plays that you needed to make,
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Speaker 2: and because your defense was so good, you were able
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Speaker 2: to lean on that run game. They're gonna need to
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Speaker 2: throw the ball, and they're gonna need to throw the
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Speaker 2: ball down the field. They have the ability to do that,
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Speaker 2: and I just think that mostly will come down to
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Speaker 2: as Leonard continues to get more comfortable with the likes
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Speaker 2: of Bo Collins, who had a very good game. It
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Speaker 2: was good to see Jayden, Greathhouse, healthy, Cooper flying again,
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Speaker 2: stepped in for Mitch Evans, who wasn't one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: that's gonna come. But I and I think it will
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Speaker 2: develop as the offensive line, which I thought played pretty well,
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Speaker 2: you know, all things considered, as the on line continues
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Speaker 2: to develop over time as well.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to know Pete Morrow. How does
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Speaker 1: a kid from Staten Island start to fall in love
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Speaker 1: with Notre Dame?
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Speaker 3: Tell me your story me listen.
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Speaker 2: I was, It was a way of life. It was
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Speaker 2: a rite of passage in my family. You know my dad,
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Speaker 2: you know, God rest his soul. We lost him in
12:46
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen to nine to eleven related illness. But you
12:50
Speaker 2: know he was as die hard as they came his
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Speaker 2: in my grandfather, his dad was a big fan.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I'm going out to.
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Speaker 2: The Louisville game in a couple of weeks, and I'll
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Speaker 2: be out there visiting some family and friends, and I
13:01
Speaker 2: have some stuff I'll obviously be doing for Tribune while
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Speaker 2: I'm out there, But you know that's more of a
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Speaker 2: family leisure trip for me. It's like my twelfth time
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Speaker 2: I think going now, you know, scattered some of my
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Speaker 2: dad's ashes out there in the lake and all that.
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Speaker 2: But you know, it was you know, Saturdays watching the
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Speaker 2: watching Notre Name in the fall, Sundays watching the Giants
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Speaker 2: in the Floor.
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Speaker 4: And we grew up listening to Don Cricky, right.
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Speaker 1: I love listening to him on Saturdays as well back
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Speaker 1: in the day too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Crickye recently now, and before him, it was the
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Speaker 2: great Tony Roberts. You know, you can, I can still
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Speaker 2: you know, feel like a kid again anytime I hear
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Speaker 2: an old you know, Brady Quinn highlight or you know,
13:38
Speaker 2: even you know, back when I was real young, the
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Speaker 2: Tony Rice or the Timmy Brown highlights from the from
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Speaker 2: the late eighties or even in the Jerome Bettist radio
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Speaker 2: calls in the nineties and stuff like that. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's been a lifelong thing, and it's it's been nice
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Speaker 2: to you know, being a full time teacher in New
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Speaker 2: York City but still having some time around you know,
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Speaker 2: my daughter's schedule, to you know, to still sort of
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Speaker 2: have this this this opportunity to do some stuff for Tribune,
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Speaker 2: which is which is really nice.
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Speaker 1: I want to get this proble on camera. So favorite
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Speaker 1: Jersey you own though, because you seem like a life
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Speaker 1: for Notre Dame. What's your favorite jersey.
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Speaker 2: You got, I mean the revolving door of the number threes.
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Speaker 2: But my favorite player of all time is still on staff.
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Speaker 2: It's Ron Paulis, So you know, I had the number
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Speaker 2: three jersey growing up. That was the first game I
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Speaker 2: went to in ninety six, Notre Dame hammered Washington, so
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Speaker 2: I was out there for that.
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Speaker 3: And then you know I was.
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Speaker 2: I was a big Jubari Holloway fan, number eighty seven,
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Speaker 2: and Shane Walton played on the two team. I was
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Speaker 2: a big fan of him, number forty two. You know,
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Speaker 2: you get the old Jerome Bettist number six, and and
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Speaker 2: Tony Rice number nine in there. So there's been a few,
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Speaker 2: but my you know, my favorite player to this day
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Speaker 2: was Ron Paulas for sure.
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Speaker 1: Well I like the Jeff samarge because we play baseball,
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Speaker 1: so I love that story as well.
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Speaker 4: And then Tommy Reese.
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Speaker 1: I mean I was hanging out at the old Yet
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Speaker 1: at the game back in twenty ten with one of
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Speaker 1: Tommy's roommates fathers, and you talk about the stories giving me.
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Speaker 4: He gave me some stories of the fifty yard line.
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Speaker 4: How cool. Is that anyway?
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Speaker 1: Ever been to South Ben I guess you have been,
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Speaker 1: so tell me about your times and favorite time there.
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Speaker 3: Well, last year went out for the for the Wait game.
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Speaker 3: That was fun.
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Speaker 2: Obviously this year, you know, I mentioned I'm gonna be
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Speaker 2: going to the Louisville game, and you know I have
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Speaker 2: some we have some friends out there, and you know
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Speaker 2: your former a good friend of ours was former Sheriff
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Speaker 2: of Saint Joseph County, Joe Nagy, So you know we've
15:30
Speaker 2: got some good lineage out there. Did an interview a
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Speaker 2: couple of months ago with President Emerita's father, Maloy, who's
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Speaker 2: become a friend. So I'll visit with him while I'm
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Speaker 2: out there, probably that Friday. But you know, I've seen,
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Speaker 2: you know, the O six U c l A game
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Speaker 2: where Quinn hits some marga late to win the game.
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Speaker 2: Uh you know, you know, just my first game in
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Speaker 2: ninety six against Washington. Been out there for a couple
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Speaker 2: of losses, but you know, the opening day games are
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Speaker 2: usually pretty fun because you still get the warm weather.
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Speaker 2: You start going into October November, you can get really
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Speaker 2: really cold weather out there, unpredictable weather coming off that lake.
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Speaker 3: But there's no place like it.
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Speaker 1: Uh you know, so you again, have you ever gotten
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Speaker 1: a picture for the touchdown?
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Speaker 4: Jesus? I mean that seemed like such a more part
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Speaker 4: of Notre Date.
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Speaker 2: The dome, the library, the stadium, everything over at the
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Speaker 2: Google where they're doing you know, the team workouts and stuff.
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Speaker 2: It's it's definitely, you know, you can feel it when
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Speaker 2: you're on that campus, and it's it's nice sometimes just
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Speaker 2: to step back and and sort of take it in
16:36
Speaker 2: appreciate it even beyond you know, football, which is is
16:41
Speaker 2: secondary when you're out there.
16:43
Speaker 1: All right, So you have the passion talking about turning
16:44
Speaker 1: it into writing and actually doing a podcast.
16:47
Speaker 4: How'd that all come about?
16:48
Speaker 3: Well, I mean I started my career, It's funny in media.
16:53
Speaker 3: You know.
16:53
Speaker 2: It was working Major League Baseball, doing some editing, you know,
16:56
Speaker 2: on that side every day in the office in Chelsea,
16:59
Speaker 2: and and you know, they were going through some changes
17:02
Speaker 2: and I kind of thought about, you know what, I
17:04
Speaker 2: what a next step might be, and and education worked out.
17:07
Speaker 2: But I had wanted to go back to school anyway.
17:09
Speaker 2: I said, if I'm going to go back to school,
17:11
Speaker 2: I might as well turn it into a career that
17:12
Speaker 2: I would enjoy. That's been teaching, but I you know,
17:16
Speaker 2: I kept the toe in the water of media. You know,
17:19
Speaker 2: I still do some high school in college broadcasting on
17:21
Speaker 2: the side, and I was doing some pro radio. Uh
17:24
Speaker 2: and I you know, I took that radio program and
17:26
Speaker 2: just turned it into you know, my own personal podcast,
17:29
Speaker 2: Sports Today with Peter j and then we do the
17:32
Speaker 2: the Notorain centric podcast first in Gold. So it's been fun.
17:37
Speaker 2: It's been It's been a lot of fun over the
17:38
Speaker 2: years to do this. And you know, I have a
17:41
Speaker 2: two year old daughter, so it's not taking too it.
17:43
Speaker 2: It doesn't take any time.
17:44
Speaker 4: Is she yet or what?
17:46
Speaker 2: She's got a lot of Notarain clothes and she every
17:49
Speaker 2: time she sees Marcus Freeman on the TV, she she
17:51
Speaker 2: she recognizes, so she knows.
17:55
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, seeing him run out of
17:56
Speaker 1: the tunnel with the team on Saturday, I gave me
17:58
Speaker 1: some some buzz chuck up.
18:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm dreverready felt that way. All right, they are
18:04
Speaker 4: coming to New York area.
18:05
Speaker 1: We play them a Navy plays no name, it meant
18:08
Speaker 1: life and then the Yankee Stadium game.
18:10
Speaker 4: Are we going to see each other? There are going
18:12
Speaker 4: to any of those games.
18:13
Speaker 2: I'll be at the Navy game in some capacity Army
18:17
Speaker 2: at Yankee Stadium in November.
18:20
Speaker 3: I'm sort of up in the air with that one,
18:22
Speaker 3: but I'm you know, gun to my head.
18:23
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I am going Navy, yes, but the
18:29
Speaker 2: Yankee game is Yankee Stadium game is is in flux
18:32
Speaker 2: right now.
18:33
Speaker 1: Now you say in some capacity you could be doing
18:36
Speaker 1: it as a press person.
18:37
Speaker 4: Is it press cents or what you right now?
18:39
Speaker 3: For Navy, I will be you know, I did.
18:42
Speaker 2: I did have an allocation of tickets that you know
18:45
Speaker 2: that I that I jumped on, but that was even
18:47
Speaker 2: before this, So you know, I'll be there, you know,
18:50
Speaker 2: and we'll do the post game show like we do
18:53
Speaker 2: on X after every game, which did really well last
18:57
Speaker 2: We did a lot of calls, a lot of listeners,
18:59
Speaker 2: you know, people fired up with this team, and they
19:01
Speaker 2: gave you a reason for that week one because there's
19:05
Speaker 2: been many instances where how many times have you seen
19:08
Speaker 2: Notre Dame lose that game? You know, right if I
19:11
Speaker 2: read that book before, you know, Ohio State last year
19:14
Speaker 2: would be a perfect example, you know. So to get
19:18
Speaker 2: out of the gates like that, I think there's a renewed,
19:21
Speaker 2: you know, sense of pride here and faith in this team,
19:26
Speaker 2: and I do truly believe it's because of who the
19:29
Speaker 2: head coaches.
19:31
Speaker 1: Well I think so too. All right, twelve team playoffs.
19:34
Speaker 1: This is my final point for the day until we
19:36
Speaker 1: meet again right down the road here.
19:38
Speaker 4: Twelve team playoff. It seems like a very valuable situation
19:41
Speaker 4: for Notre Dame.
19:42
Speaker 1: Now, right, what do I have to do to get
19:43
Speaker 1: in that twelve team playoff situation where they're involved in
19:46
Speaker 1: that conversation?
19:47
Speaker 2: I think when you look at it, right, you knew
19:49
Speaker 2: going in is a loss of death sentence. No, not necessarily,
19:55
Speaker 2: but it hurts. You know, the highest seed Notre Dame
19:58
Speaker 2: can be because they don't have a conversion championship is five.
20:01
Speaker 3: It's all.
20:01
Speaker 2: It's all attainable now in the next couple of weeks,
20:04
Speaker 2: and you take it week by week. You don't want
20:06
Speaker 2: to have, you know, sort of you know, a lethargic
20:09
Speaker 2: or lazy start. This Saturday in the home opert against
20:11
Speaker 2: Northern Illinois. I don't think they will as a monster favorite.
20:14
Speaker 2: You just gotta win games. You get Northern Illinois, then
20:16
Speaker 2: you go on the road again to Purdue. You're back
20:19
Speaker 2: home from Miami, Ohio and Louisville and then followed by
20:23
Speaker 2: Stanford in October after the Boss. So you got three
20:25
Speaker 2: straight home games after a September fourteenth trip to Purdue,
20:29
Speaker 2: so you'll have an opportunity there. You're gonna get a
20:31
Speaker 2: really good Georgia Tech team that's got some speed offensively
20:35
Speaker 2: in Atlanta obviously Navy a giant at MetLife Stadium. Then
20:39
Speaker 2: Florida State, who's zero and two out of the gates.
20:42
Speaker 2: Last night's loss was just they've looked awful. A Virginia
20:47
Speaker 2: team you're not messing around with. You know Army is
20:50
Speaker 2: going to be physical. And then you end the season
20:51
Speaker 2: with USC on the road November thirtieth. I think that
20:55
Speaker 2: is and that and Miller Moss, USC's quarterback could very
20:58
Speaker 2: well be the best quarterback note name sees all year?
21:01
Speaker 4: All right, and one last thing. Do you think there's
21:04
Speaker 4: a lot of field stormings this year?
21:05
Speaker 1: When I Suppers saw that, not Dame, I was surprised
21:07
Speaker 1: because he never saw that before. But there they were
21:09
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago fielding storm in the field.
21:11
Speaker 1: We're gonna see that this year again in South Bend.
21:13
Speaker 3: Some exciting wins or why listen, you'll see one if
21:15
Speaker 3: they win the whole damn thing.
21:16
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that much. But if you're gonna get one,
21:21
Speaker 2: you know it would probably be you know you, I
21:27
Speaker 2: don't think it would be the Louisville game unless they
21:31
Speaker 2: won in some sort of dramatic fashion. But look, the
21:35
Speaker 2: bottom line is they win, they're in uh, and you
21:38
Speaker 2: got eleven in the left. You know, the bye week
21:41
Speaker 2: comes out at a more opportunistic time than it did
21:44
Speaker 2: a year ago. Remember how just loaded debt schedule wound
21:47
Speaker 2: up being with Ohio State coming back from Ireland, then.
21:50
Speaker 3: Louisville and Duke. It was a gauntlet.
21:54
Speaker 2: You know, there's a little more that there's more of
21:56
Speaker 2: a break here.
21:57
Speaker 4: Uh.
21:58
Speaker 2: You know when you get the buye October or six,
22:00
Speaker 2: and then you got it later on after the Navy game.
22:03
Speaker 3: So there's damage to be done here.
22:06
Speaker 2: And again it's like coach Freeman says, you just got
22:08
Speaker 2: to go week to week and keep everything in front
22:10
Speaker 2: of you. And this is a team that's got a
22:12
Speaker 2: lot of leadership. It's certainly certainly new rankings came out
22:16
Speaker 2: today and the a people Notre Dame was fifth, So
22:19
Speaker 2: it's all right in front of you.
22:20
Speaker 1: You went and right in front of you, as Aaron
22:23
Speaker 1: Boom would say, anyway, I love it, Pete. You're also
22:27
Speaker 1: a teacher. Are you teaching the kids about Notre Dame
22:29
Speaker 1: at all and intersperson your curriculum or what.
22:31
Speaker 2: Well, they'll they'll ask when they, you know, the kids
22:34
Speaker 2: report to the classroom Thursday for the first time in
22:36
Speaker 2: this school year, they'll see the Notre Dame stuff hanging
22:38
Speaker 2: up in the classroom.
22:39
Speaker 3: I had to convince a couple of go teachers to
22:40
Speaker 3: let me do.
22:41
Speaker 2: It, but yeah, they'll If they don't, they will put
22:45
Speaker 2: it that way.
22:45
Speaker 1: Where can we follow you on Instagram and acts and
22:48
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff?
22:49
Speaker 2: Sure you know right through Uh, you can follow the
22:53
Speaker 2: podcast at first in gold Pod at first end gold
22:57
Speaker 2: Pod my my personal instagram for the for the for
23:01
Speaker 2: the sports, the show that I do Sports Today with
23:03
Speaker 2: Peter J. It's it's that at Sports Today with Peter J.
23:06
Speaker 3: That's j A Y. And then when you jump on X.
23:10
Speaker 2: Obviously first in gold Pod, that's where you can get
23:12
Speaker 2: all the information about what we do at at First
23:15
Speaker 2: and Golden at the Irish Tribune and obviously anybody wants
23:19
Speaker 2: you know, day to day up to the minute information
23:21
Speaker 2: about Notre Aime. Www dot Irish, the Irishtribune dot com
23:26
Speaker 2: and they're all across social media.
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Speaker 1: Pete molloy, thanks for joining the One Leg Up Network.
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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining.
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Speaker 3: You got it brother, anytime. It was fun