October 29, 2025 • 41 mins
Notre Dame Fighting Irish football at Boston College Eagles preview, a little CFP speculation and coaches carousel added in for fun.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:01):
It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
Heals Carter. He's Chad, and this is the.
Irish 365 Podcast Welcome to theIrish 365 Pod.
We're in different locations today, right?
You're on a little business trip.
Managers in our Home Office, so I'm down in the kitchen.
So yeah, we're kind of in StudioE.
What are we in? I'm, I'm in, I'm in remote
(00:23):
studio GI think you're OK? I'm scouting the Northeast, you
know, checking out the Massholes.
I guess we'll put it that way. Yeah, checking out, checking out
the Boston Greater Eric, you're not in Boston, but yeah.
We're outside of Boston currently, so.
Yeah. So yeah, you're on the road this
week for work. Yeah, we're actually be on the
(00:44):
road this week for the game, butwe'll talk about our travel a
little bit later at the end of the podcast for those
interested. But yeah, I mean, it's Boston
College Week. This is technically a rivalry
game. I mean nerd name versus BC
backup college, right? Yeah, you know, there's, it's
funny, I mean, I think there's there's not one school that
Notre Dame disrespects more in the rivalry than it seems to be
(01:07):
Boston College or Little Brotheror backup college or or
whatever, whatever moniker you want to throw on it.
And there's not one school in the rivalry that probably hates
Notre Dame more. And has probably just so much
right to hate us. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, justifiable, like the hate, the hate they have is it's
(01:27):
a respectful hate, but it's still a hate nonetheless.
And I think that's the. Same.
I think a lot of especially United fans around your age
don't like Boston College because they're 93.
Yeah, the that was horrible situation for us in that time
period, so. Yeah.
So I I think, yeah. It's a lot, right?
And I mean. A lot of yeah, a lot of stuff on
EXO I found funny. I said.
(01:48):
One of my favourites from this week is What's the what did
Notre Dame and Boston College students have in common?
Both had Notre Dame as their number one school.
So yeah. So yeah, a lot, a lot of beef on
the old social. It's a lot of yeah, big bro,
little Bros talk. So it is definitely entertaining
out there. But yeah, obviously I know you
(02:09):
want to get a little bit about the holy war, all that good
stuff. 2 Catholic universities, if you don't know, two of the
only Catholic universities in Division One sports.
Correct. I think, I don't think there's
any other Catholic and then we have some Christian ones out
there. Yeah, that might be going to
Catholic in Division One. I was trying to think.
(02:29):
Liberty. No, I don't think liberty is.
Either way. Yeah, anyway, we're the two
major Division One football programs.
We're for sure the two, yeah, Division One football programs
east of the Mississippi. I don't know West of the
Mississippi, but yeah. So yeah, I mean, it's, and it's
like you said, it's it's rivalry.
It's it's a respectful disrespect in both cases.
(02:52):
Like I think the Notre Dame fan base respects Boston College but
disrespects them every chance they get.
It's disrespectful. It should be.
And I think Boston College respects Notre Dame, but they
disrespect us and despise us because they they have the right
to because of the way the way it's portrayed a lot in amongst
the students, the students and things of that nature.
(03:14):
So the game is kind of hard to get excited about in general
because Boston College is just having a tough year where they
won seven right now. And it's like, OK, what's Boston
College bringing to the table? Yeah, one in seven Boston
(03:35):
College teams. Not.
Not something that it's not easyto get excited about.
Yeah. And Notre Dame, I think the
excitement comes in because you start, you know, we're in the
hunt for the college football playoffs and there's a whole
bunch of discussion we can have later is are we a lock?
Are we not a lock? And then if we're not a lock,
how do we get there? And we'll talk about that, I
(03:55):
guess a little bit later. So from the Boston College like
perspective, I'm excited to get a chance to go to this game, but
I I I'm expecting Notre Dame to have just their way right.
And yeah, Notre Dame should be able to do the things it wants
to do and, and do them well. I mean, we're going to want to
run the ball. We're going to want to be
(04:16):
balanced with a little bit of the pass.
Boston College has given up I almost 100 and like 67 yards
rushing every game. It's.
They're not great running backs.To to yeah, to lesser caliber
running situations, right? I think Boston College is only
averaging like 300 and some yards total offense per game.
(04:36):
Yeah. And when you look at Notre
Dame's defense and how we've even against A&M and against
Miami, our defense was terrible,but we held them to less yards
and productivity per game than what they had been doing in
other games. So I mean, like, it's just it's
one of those things where like, OK, our there's no reason for us
(04:59):
to lose this game. And that makes me a little
nervous because it goes back to that 93.
There's no reason for us to losethat game.
However, I think there's a little more at stake here
because we know and I hope the vibe around the GOOG and and the
Notre Dame campus, the Notre Dame team is like, you've got to
win and you've got to win with style points.
You, you know, because you're not a lot.
(05:20):
You need help. So keeping that hunter
mentality, not that, you know, haunted mentality, even though
Boston College is going to goingto make their season if they
find a way to beat us. I think that's going to be kind
of the interesting thing They'regoing to they're going to come
up with a chip on their shoulder.
We should come in with a chip onour shoulder.
And that should that should votewell for how we play and what we
(05:40):
do. Yeah, 28 1/2 point favorites is
a tough one to get high for versus one in 17.
This, like I said, not a very good football team.
It's when you're when we're doing research for this, it's
like, all right, what are they good at?
It's it's it's not easy to find a whole lot, right?
I mean, they let up a lot of rushing yards.
Teams don't throw. I mean, people throw on them,
(06:03):
but they're up by so much that they end up running the ball
more. So, yeah.
And and then you look at their offensive line like they
switched to Grayson James, I think his name is a few weeks
back. I'm assuming he'll be the
rocking with this week at quarterback is rad got down.
He got he played Connecticut twoweeks.
(06:23):
He only got sacked 7 times. Connecticut, yeah, I mean.
No disrespect to Connecticut, but.
Last week there's Louisville wasonly sacked.
Yeah, exactly. Last week versus Louisville was
only sacked twice. But it's like if Connecticut got
7 sacks on this guy, like yeah, it's not not a good spot for
Boston College. So yeah, it's and I was looking
(06:45):
at their leading receiver has 56catches in one touchdown catch,
like their guy with the most receptions.
And it's like, holy, like they have a couple guys with three
touchdowns catches, but their guy with the most catches as
one. So it it's definitely an
interesting situation when you look at their offense, their
defense, you're just like, it's hard to go into this game and
think nerding is not going to get their way.
(07:06):
And normally these bigger spreads, 28 1/2 make me nervous.
This this isn't one of them. That's where I'm at.
I'm not and and I I feel this way, so I'm hoping the team
doesn't, but it's like just comein and take care of business and
this is this game is ours to be had.
I think the only thing we got todo is say, OK, what's the over
(07:26):
and under on this? I think it was. 56 and a half
50. Six, yeah, it was 50 something
and the spreads 28. So you're talking 1442 something
like that is the 46 or somethinglike that is the is the
predicted score. I mean, we just have to we just
have to beat the beat the spread, right?
I mean, if I'm Marcus Freeman, that's got to be the message is
(07:49):
it's not it's not enough to win.We have to beat the spread.
We have to have style points. We got to make a statement
because the two losses early could hurt us in making the
College Football Playoff. Even if even if he doesn't
believe that, I think that's gotto be the message he sends to
the team. Like you need to have these two,
like you've got to have these style points.
(08:10):
You're going to have this big win convincing win because CFP
rankings come out Tuesday and weneed to do everything we can to
put ourselves in that, you know,the ideally top 11 in the first
CFP rankings. Yeah, if you're in the top 11,
we're off the bat. I mean, you're kind.
You're more in control of your destiny, right?
I mean. And if you're not?
If you're not, you definitely need help.
(08:32):
And I think, you know, we saw itlast year because it was kind of
this whole question with the CFPranking, like what are they
going to do, How they going to do it?
The CFP definitely did not have the same perception as what we
got from the coach's poll or theAP.
Poll, right? It's going to be different, like
you just need to respect I, you could be #1 people might not
(08:52):
like, you know what I mean? Something like that, like.
Agree or disagree, right, They they're going to get ranked, you
know, differently and you know. And then usually the week or two
after the AP and coach's poll follow, pretty much it's the
same as customer, player front, do that around it too, so.
Yeah, there's a calibration thattakes place.
Yeah. So, yeah, I think that's kind of
it. So if I'm Notre Dame, I mean,
it's I'm going to be able to runthe ball, at least I anticipate
(09:15):
be able to run the ball at will.And I've got a stable of backs.
I mean, we know that Jeremiah Love.
Well, I mean, let's get him. Let's get him going.
Let's get him going early. Let's see if we get 100 and 5200
yards and get him out out of thegame by halftime.
Let's see if we get priced 100 yards, 150 yards and get him out
of the game by in the third quarter, right?
(09:36):
I mean, let's, let's, let's see if we got somebody else like
Aeneas Williams or someone like that.
Hang, yeah. I would love to see a half, half
to 1/4 of Kenny Minchi time like, you know, meaningful,
meaningful playing time for Kenny Minchi.
Not in a game that that means something like he's got to win
(09:56):
the game or something, but I'd like to see Kenny Minchy get
time just. Extended time, yeah.
Extended playing time, not coming in to take a knee at the
end of the game kind of a thing.So and you know, and the thing
that if there's any Achilles heel right now for the Notre
Dame team, it's got to be the offensive line and just the
injuries because I mean, we saw this last year.
We were deep into the into the yeah chart and we're there
(10:19):
again. So it's almost like the only
place I'm nervous is we can't afford to have, you know,
anymore. It just feels like we can't have
more injuries or. All Yeah, you're I was waiting
for you to ask me what do you think the keys for Notre Dame
this week are? And it's beat the crap out of
them and stay healthy. Yeah, exactly.
I mean that's that's it. That's what we call success,
right? Like we come out of this game,
(10:40):
we win by 29 or more points and we don't have any season end
injuries. Like we got to be able to come
out of this. And yeah, the questionable the
the game, the death trip, this, we get a lot of people
questionable, I think 8 to 10 guys.
So yeah, don't be a problem right now.
And another offseason topic, butyeah, I mean, is our strength
(11:00):
and conditioning program a problem where we're having this
man? It seems like muscle.
It's I don't feel like it's ACL,like it's muscle injuries, it's
hamstrings, it's quads. It's that's an offseason topic
we can get into. But yeah, what's going on there?
It feels like we're having and Iunderstood last year when we're
in week, was it 1516 in the playoffs?
(11:21):
I have like, OK, but we're stillin the first seven games, like
eight games of the season, so I guess that's what, you know what
I mean? Yeah, and it's not like it
hasn't come up in the past. You know, the, the whole is our
strength conditioning program. It's doing a it's doing a the
right thing and helping us develop guys who are highly
(11:44):
conditioned and fast. Yeah, no, no doubt about it.
Notre Dame is, is one of the most athletic fastest teams.
It's been, you know, the last couple of years part of us, the
people we've recruited, but it'salso the strength and
conditioning is maximizing that performance.
But is the trade off to that thethe health or the injury prone
(12:07):
side of it, right? Are they are they conditioning
to, you know, to prevent injury?And I always think of a study
that I read back in the day, youknow, North Carolina women's
soccer had a huge amount of ACL injuries.
And then they found out like half the team had them and half
the team didn't. But they were all in the same
conditioning. And, you know, it turned out the
team, that part of the team thatdidn't have injuries, they were
(12:30):
all rollerbladers, you know, like this is like what?
And just, you know, there was something about the
rollerblading that build up, youknow, some ligaments in the knee
area and they were stronger and they, they were less injury
prone by because they were rollerbladers.
And it was like, so I mean, it, it's not the same that I'm a pro
rollerblade guy. But what it is to say is like
there is definitely something tostrengthening around, you know,
(12:52):
tendons and joints and muscle mass and, you know, and there's
a conflict or a, a inverse relationship between strength
and speed in some cases. I mean, long muscles or fast
muscles, but not very strong muscles.
And I've seen guys in the gym that they're bulk and swole, but
they're not very strong because it just it's their, it's their
(13:14):
lifting technique, right? They're not as strong as you'd
expect them to be. I've seen guys that look like
Pudge and you know, they're, they're freaking strong as a
house. And you're like, whoa.
So there's something to that. That's a balance.
And yeah, are we are we there? And is it is it going to
continue to be an issue? I don't know, but we'll see.
But it's really weird. It's like you said, it's along
the offensive line primarily. That's the big place where I'm
(13:35):
noticing it. Like, and then you go back and
like, you know, losing Coogan and losing some of the guys that
we lost in this offseason. And you're like, yeah, I'd like
to have those guys in the stepping in again this year
because they they serviced us really well.
But, you know, we're we're in a part of that.
I mean, look at our look at our schedule going forward.
It's not like we're going to be,you know, hitting the hardest
(13:58):
part of our schedule. That was the early part of it.
You know, so the tough game coming in with injury prone is
going to be the Navy game, right?
Because Navy's Navy's just goingto come at you for the entire
game and they're going to bring it to you.
And, you know, it seems like youalways have an offensive line
when you get injured during during the Navy game.
So, yeah. So, yeah, I think that's, that's
it. That's a you've you've nailed
(14:18):
it. Keys to the game, right?
Beat the spread, stay healthy. I couldn't have said it better.
Yeah, so I mean, I, I guess do you have any other view?
I don't know what Boston, what even say for Boston skis the
game. I mean, keep the ball.
They're I think -8 on the year, on turnovers, if they can
somehow figure out a protective quarterback, not turn the ball
(14:40):
over, force some turnovers and stay in the game.
I guess we would like to tell Boston College like, make this a
second-half game. Make it.
And it just doesn't feel like I,I had trouble even saying that
this is going to be a game. And that's terrible to say, but.
Yeah, you know, and and and Marcus.
Truman's done very well. Backs against the wall against
these type of teams early in theseason, I'd be more concerned,
(15:03):
yeah. But backs against the wall going
into this off of by week preparing, yeah.
So if we were undefeated and #3 or 4 in the country, I'm with
you. I'd be really concerned.
Yeah. But the fact that, you know,
we've got to win, I think you'llhave them focused.
If I'm Boston College coach, youknow, I'm and I'm not telling my
team this by any by means, but I'm concerned that I just don't
(15:25):
have the right guys. But I'm looking, I'm looking for
anything and everything I can doand I'm I'm going to pull all
the stops. I mean, I'm playing with house
money. No one expects me to win.
I'm going, I'm going to be goingaggressive on 4th down, third
down trick plays. You know, I'm, I'm going to look
at everything in the book and then some to throw it, throw it
(15:47):
Notre Dame. I'm going to try and you know,
I'm going to try and get Christian Grey to be aggressive,
you know, and give me some PIS call calls.
I'm going to, you know, I'm justgoing to, I'm going to try and
attack anything and everything Ican within reason, But I, I'm,
I'm going to try and slow the game down.
I'm going to huddle up. I'm going to, I'm going to milk
(16:07):
the clock to the final frickin seconds.
You know, I'm going to, I'm going to extend my time of
possession as much as I can by running off the clock, limiting
Notre Dame possessions. I'm going to, you know, and I'm
just going to, I'm going to do atrick plays in there.
I'm going to, I'm going to be probably 25 percent, 30%, just,
you know, looks like flag football because I, I, I've got,
(16:30):
I've got athletes, but I don't have the athletes I need to win
straight up so. And I saw this Grayson James, or
whatever his name is, 46 attempts last week against
Louisville. They were trying to throw the
rock. Yeah.
I mean, so I, I assume that they're going to try to get
thrown downfield to make something happen, right?
(16:51):
Yeah, great tendencies do do crazy things.
Throw some trick plays in there,you're going to see Wildcats,
trouble reverses, Statue of Liberty, you know, fake punts.
You have nothing to lose, right?No one's expecting you to come
in and beat Notre Dame, but you know, it's a 330 kick at home.
So the crowd's going to be with you for the 1st 2 minutes.
(17:11):
Try, try and get him to stay with you beyond that.
And you know, and, and if you can hang around to the fourth
quarter and you can catch Notre Dame off guard and that's part
of it. You know, I'm going to hope
Notre Dame, I'm hope going to hope Notre Dame's not quite like
focused and you know, they're distracted.
I'm going to probably, I'm goingto probably say, you know, hey,
let's get some, let's get some pro friendly Notre Dame media
(17:32):
like lying around their hotel. You know, let's let's see if we
can get some undercooked fish served to the team prior the
night before for dinner and or, you know, like, whatever I can
do, right? The old Michael Jordan flu game
and where, yeah, maybe the pizzawas or wasn't tainted with
something that made him sick kind of a thing.
Like, you know, I'm going to look for any advantage I can.
But if I'm Boston College, I'm. I'm really praying for a
(17:54):
miracle. You know, to, to quote Lou
Holtz, God doesn't care who winsa football game, but his mother
does. So, you know, I'm.
I'm going to hope that I find favor with Mary if I'm, if I'm
lost in college. So yeah.
So yeah, you're going to get score predictions here then.
Yeah, let's let's, let's go at it.
(18:14):
You got yours. I do.
Yeah. I'm feeling bold and again, I
think I think it's imperative that Notre Dame has a big
victory and covers the spread and they need style points.
I'm feeling this game is going to be a 49 seven.
OK497. 49 seven is my my shot. What do you got We're.
(18:39):
Very close. I'm 5210, I've got another field
goal for the Irish on it and I've got a 52.
Three in Boston College is goingto get a scrappy score late.
You know, I'm, I don't think they're going to get their seven
until the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's I think it's
scrappy. Score late, don't feel goal
along the way. At some point, yeah. 5210 is
(19:01):
what I got, I think. They're going to continue to
battle and it's going to be the fourth quarter.
We're going to have probably some younger guys in the
secondary getting experience andthey're going to, you know,
they're going to, they're going to be able to find something.
I think when they go quick against the young guys, that's
when they'll get one. Yeah.
Like, you talk about them slowing it down, they're going
to go quickly and that's probably when they'll they'll
get us. Yeah.
(19:23):
I mean, this is a team that it, it should not be a ball game.
So yeah, I mean, you're going toget into the contest this week
and then you can talk a little bit over travel plans.
How about that? Well, let's talk CFP for just a
second. Let's do contests.
I mean, to me, it's it's got to be rushing yards.
What do you think? Yeah, Tiger.
So let's get this. If you'd like to win two tickets
(19:43):
in our game first Syracuse draws.
This is We got three more chances to enter this contest.
So yeah, we're we're getting close to that draw.
You'll automatically win an Irish 365 T-shirt and then you
will get entered in to win our two nerd universities.
Tickets for that draw will be taking place after that
Pittsburgh game here in a few weeks.
Yeah, all you got to do is correctly guess the nerd and
(20:04):
rushing yards this week. We were going to just say price
and love, but we think there's some chances that we see some
other guys. We're going to go nerd and team
rushing yards and total. Rushing yards.
Yeah, all we got to do is followus on X and then comma
underneath this video and you can win.
We get you to win those two tickets and win that R-65
T-shirt. And those people I know we've
(20:25):
got to reach out to us. They should be getting their
shirts, I think last week. And yeah.
This this week, they're they're they're they're dropping like
Christmas this week. So yeah.
Envy the. Envy the neighborhood in those
people's house really soon. Yeah, they should have them by
game time, is what we're thinking, right?
Absolutely they'll they'll be rocked them.
Let's let's see those pictures on X, right?
Let's. Oh, yeah.
Drop your picture with the shirts.
(20:45):
So, yeah, Yeah. So.
So, yeah, I think that sums up the contest this week.
It's pretty simple. No name Rusty Yards.
I think I think CJ will have a good day.
But yeah, that was like a game where we're going to dominate on
the ground because we're not going to throw the ball and
we're up 35 points. Yeah.
No need to, right? Just yeah, control the ball.
And I mean, Love and Price are going to get there before it's
(21:07):
$35. Like, I don't feel like CJ is
going to throw for five touchdowns and we're going to
run the ball. No, they're going to have three
or four. TJ might throw for one or two
and and that one or two might beto that so.
Oh, I could see CJ having 250 in3/4 and us run the ball heavy
and and still end up there. Yeah, You know, I, I, I could
just try to get love a couple 100 yards.
(21:29):
Yeah. Just for the Heisman talk.
I mean, is he going to win the Heisman?
No, probably not. Do I think you should?
Yes. Am I biased?
Absolutely yeah, Is is there thethe the every year that ends in
A5 running back seems to win theHeisman yes, there's there's
some history there. I I just don't think he'll win
it, but. I think he's the best player in
(21:51):
college football. I don't think that means he wins
the Heisman. Yeah, it's it's, it's a
quarterback award primarily, butI think he deserves the
nomination and I think he deserves to be in New York.
And I consider that a win if he makes it to New York as a
running back. So I'd like to send Manti Tayo
win it in 2012. But hey, just the fact that he
got invited to New York was awesome for for a linebacker,
(22:14):
but he also had seven interceptions that year, which
is ridiculous for a linebacker. So, so, yeah, CFPI think that's
we touched on a little bit. I think that's kind of
interesting is none of the pollsmatter until like we said
Tuesday, right? Yeah.
And, and I think there's a amongst the Notre Dame fan base,
there's a whole bunch bunch of different opinions, but I'd
(22:36):
break it into 3. There is the world.
We're 10 and two were a lot because we're Notre Dame.
There's the we're 10 and two, but we have to have style
points. But we're still in control of
our destiny as long as we win with style points.
And then there's the we're goingto have to be 10 and two.
We're going to have to have style points and we're going to
need some help. Where do you, where do you fall
(22:58):
in that? Do you think 10 and two was
style points? 10 and 2 is enough?
Do you think 10:00 and 2:00? I think I'm kind of yeah, 10 and
two and style points is where I'm at because I feel like, and
I'm almost leaning tended to lock because yeah, I mean, if we
beat Boston College by three, ifwe beat maybe by three, if we
win all these next games by three points and I'm not like,
Oh my gosh, we're in. But yeah, make sure if we have
(23:20):
let's just say pit, we beat by 10 and but the rest of the games
you win by 21 plus. I'm probably a guy will
probably, you know what I mean? I'm not convinced you got to
beat all these teams by 75. I know some people out there
are. So yeah, that's kind of right.
I'm 10 and two feels like a goodone, especially with wins over
USC. It'll be interesting where they
come in, in the Cos Football Playoff rankings.
(23:40):
I know they got ranked back in the eight people this week.
What's the committee's thought on Navy teams like that where we
get some wins? Yeah.
And is it USC still behind Michigan after beating Michigan
earlier this year? Yeah.
Like, I can't believe the CFP committee is going to keep that
in just half place. I mean, he's got to be head of
Michigan. Yeah, I don't know if Michigan's
(24:03):
25 or 12, but wherever they're at, US CS got to be ahead of
them. Yeah, you think, but I mean,
actually the same argument couldhappen versus if we're ahead of
A&M or Miami somehow. You know what I mean?
I don't at some point. I don't see us being ahead of
A&M. Well, we're not going to head
A&M. They're on defeat.
But Miami, yeah, I don't. I don't think we'll be.
I think we'll be one behind Miami.
(24:24):
Miami ends up. I think we'll we won't be.
We won't do any better than I don't say we't one behind him,
but we won't be any better than one behind him.
I can't see us. I'd be shocked if there was any,
any scenario. Unless Miami drops a game you
know down the stretch, they shouldn't.
But they did last year, they weren't about to be in easily
last year to drop some games down the stretch.
But they've got a lot ahead of them.
(24:45):
I mean, you know, they're outside looking in right now on
the ACC Championship. But you got to, you got to think
that Georgia Tech's got Georgia ahead of them.
There's a loss coming for them and.
That's not AC loss. And and you know, but I mean,
that's, that's going to drop them, but it's not going to get
them out of the ACC Championship, right?
(25:09):
So I could see a scenario where the committee and there's
someone who represents the ACC on the committee will say, hey,
I'm going to make the argument that Miami should be ranked high
so that, you know, I can get theACC champion and Miami into the
playoffs. And, you know, and, and the way
(25:30):
it worked out last year, if you won your conference
championship, you were you got the bye, right You so you got
that first round bye. If you lost your conference
championship, you might have hadto go on the road or you might,
you might have got, I mean, I think they had one on the road,
right? The conference, the team that
lost the conference championship, unless there was a
(25:53):
third team in the conference that we've made it.
And then like the conference championship loser got got the
host the second round and the third team was out.
So I think the ranking will kindof fall into that same sort of
category. So you're not going to get 2 ACC
teams in, I don't think unless one of them's Miami and the ACC
champion, I don't think the, I don't think the ACC loser makes
(26:16):
makes the play. I don't think ACC is going to
get three teams in, so I think Miami set up pretty nicely.
If Miami wins out, they've got AI.
Think Georgia Tech. Yeah, Georgia Tech's A-Team.
They got the best chance for theACC as well to get in but if.
Georgia Tech loses the ACC championship.
You still think they make it in?If they beat Georgia.
If they beat Georgia and I. Don't.
Yeah. And they almost did last year,
(26:36):
though. I, I it's.
A good Georgia Tech team. I mean, we're, yeah.
Because I think, I think if Georgia Tech loses the Georgia
and then loses the ACC or beats George and loses the ACC
championship, they got a case. Yeah, which would be interesting
because now you're starting and that makes it very difficult for
Notre Dame. Yeah, if.
You start talking, yeah, the more yeah, the more multi big
conferences get in that are always for us.
(26:59):
Right. So I think three, I think 3 SEC
teams is pretty much a lock at this point.
Yeah, I can't see a scenario where there's not three SEC
teams. Three Big 10 teams feels pretty
likely between Ohio State, IU and then Oregon.
There'll be another one sneak in, but yeah, that that's still
(27:19):
likely. So if you throw in three ACC
teams, you've got. None.
Who's the 3rd ACC team you're thinking about?
I'm just saying if Georgia, if so, who's in the ACC
Championship because. Like Georgia Tech, I don't
remember who would be in it right now.
Right. Doesn't even matter who it is if
it's not Miami. I think Miami might be Miami.
(27:39):
Georgia Tech might be it right now.
I was. Thinking Miami, I think where
somebody else was in there. Louisville beat Miami, but then
Louisville lost to Boston College.
Oh, they lost. That's right, they lost.
Or they're not to Boston CollegeLouisville.
Louisville has some other laws, I suppose.
But is it? Is it in conference?
I was thinking somebody else wasundefeated in conference.
Maybe Louisville is, Yeah, I don't have my notes with brother
(28:00):
right now. So so you end up with Louisville
and Georgia Tech in the championship in Miami on the
outside, and if Georgia Tech beats Georgia and loses to
Louisville in the championship game?
Then. Then you're then you've got
those three teams in. Yeah.
And you're not going to put Notre Dame in over Miami if
(28:20):
unless Miami loses along the waybecause then you got the whole
argument. Well, Miami was good early and
bad late. Notre Dame was bad early and
good late. So you might get that
controversial pick, but but yeah, now that you're if you're
9 teams there and then you got the the out large power 5 plus
the Big 12. Like, that's boy No game still
has a path, but it's narrow. Yeah.
(28:42):
So. Yeah, it's, let me just see
where the rankings come out to start next week because I mean,
you always need a data point to start, right?
I mean, this we can talk what is, what is what is, but yeah,
it's what's the absolute will that matter?
I think, right. I mean, it's Norden could be
ranked 8th next week. I would be surprised.
Norden could be ranked 19th nextweek.
I don't think we'd be too surprised.
I mean, I expect to be somewherearound the 131415 or 8:00.
(29:05):
But the committee, I mean, the committee's got their opinions,
right. I.
Think Notre Dame will be. My guess is Notre Dame's going
to be 10 or 11 yeah, committee. That's where I feel like we're
going to end up at I. Agree with that.
But yeah, I mean, it won't surprise me if we're eight.
It won't surprise me if we're 20.
Yeah, I would, I would be surprised if we're less than 8.
I'd be surprised if we're higherthan 15.
(29:26):
Yeah. And I can't like I could see
them having us on the bubble like but.
Honestly, thirteen seems like the.
Floor yeah, I, I would say 13's the floor and eight's the
ceiling and I, I really think 10or 11 is probably where we're at
where we're in control of our own destiny.
Where. And I think, you know, I'm
conspiracy theorist when it comes to the projections of the
(29:49):
bull committees and everything else is they're looking at more
than just the quality of the winds.
They're looking at selling tickets and revenue generation.
And I know that Notre Dame brings something to the table
there. You know, I was on the whole
conspiracy theory that the the home teams hosting were going to
be the biggest stadiums. So, you know, that's why Penn
State was going to host and, youknow, Tennessee was going to
(30:09):
host and Notre Dame was going tohost because they had big
stadiums sort of a thing. So so yeah, I'm a little jaded,
I admit it. But I I think we're 10 or 11.
We'll see. Ask me again on Wednesday and
I'll tell you. Yeah, exactly.
That's you a week from now, right?
So yeah, let's let's talk travel.
I mean, I'm, I'm pre traveling, so I'm, I'm I'm ahead of things.
But yeah, let's, let's, I mean, we get the whole crew, the whole
(30:32):
Irish 365 crew was. Yeah, about five of us were
making out to Boston this week, which is going to be exciting.
Yep. I know you mom and Kate are
going out. You're coming back home, then
you'll be flying out Thursday evening out to Boston.
Me and Matt are flying out Friday morning.
We're we're stoked for it, sightseeing a little bit Friday
afternoon, Friday evening, got some things planned and then
(30:54):
yeah, Saturday, I don't know what the plan is, but games
3:30. So it's going to be nice,
hopefully. Sure, Boss is going to be a
little chilly looking at it winsand stuff, but yeah, it's not.
Going to be terrible. I mean, and again, the 3:30
kicks going to be it's going to be nice, it's going to be
comfortable, it's going to get alittle cool at the end of the
game. So that'll be a little bit
tricky. Your your mom will not know
(31:15):
where there were shorts or ski coat but but.
Yeah, and this is honestly, I don't know why, but this I know
we've talked about this like Boston Palestinian just looks so
cool to me. Like it's just I'm I'm a sucker
for like these 40,000 person stadiums.
It's like just tight compact like a lot of these a lot of
these schools that can't sell out these 80 to 100,000 persons
(31:37):
they can should build these likeeven power fives like pit
Panthers Miami even like build these dams that are 40,000 make
them come back, make them a makethem a raucous atmosphere.
Yeah, this day I'm exactly because I know we're oh section
oh row 20, but we're going to be50 feet from the field still
like. We're we're worth the we're the
(31:59):
highest section, you know, last row, you know that in the Notre
Dame, yeah, you know, and and that I that's what was going to
be fun because you know, we're going to be amongst the Notre
Dame families and and the other alumni and season ticket
holders, people that have got tickets to university and we're
going to get terrible seats likewe did at USC.
But these aren't going to be terrible.
Like these are going to be like,not as good as there's better
(32:20):
seats, but these aren't. We're going to be sitting in the
end zone, not 30 people buying the end zone.
Yes, or all the hot black bleachers, you know, smelling.
Yeah, I think it is Bleacher seating though at alumni.
I think you're correct, but it'snot going to be hot black
bleachers in the sun. You know, it's not going to be
it's it's going to. And again, it's it's in the city
of Boston, which is a cool city.It's you know, it's going to be
great vibe, great college campus.
(32:41):
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
I mean, you know, there's a tie in here for Kaden.
You know, his he's doing a thingin social studies right now,
which is we the people and aboutthe constitution of the founding
fathers. So no better time for him to
spend the weekend in Boston and,you know, do a little history,
little history lessons. So I'm big, I'm big on that.
So, yeah, might hit the Notre Dame Club of Boston tailgate
(33:03):
pregame. So that might be fun.
So yeah, Friday will be Friday will be a good family hangout
day and dual sightseeing. Little history.
Yeah. I don't know if your mom was
disappointed. She's talking about wanting to
go to the Cheers bar. I'm like, it just looks like the
Cheers from outside. You go inside, looks nothing
like Cheers, the TV show which is so old you don't even know
what I'm talking about. I know what it is but never
(33:24):
watched. It yeah, the jokes wouldn't land
today. They're they're 40 years past
their prime. So so yeah, she's she's got some
ideas. We'll see if we can talk her off
the ledge there. I think she's come around on
that one. I've already brew into the
disappointment before. So yeah, it'll be good.
It'll be fun to have the entire squad together and make the
game. We've only got to do that a
couple times this year with justthe schedule.
So it'll be good to do it on a road trip, which, you know, I
(33:46):
can't say it's been one of my major bucket list visits, but it
is a place I've always wanted togo see Notre Dame play as like,
yeah, the Notre Dame Boston College game is a game I've
always wanted to go see in person at Boston College.
So I'm excited for that. That's another check.
Check at the bucket. List and I really don't think my
state is going to be like the great.
I'm not going to like write about the same like oh, you got
to go to Boston. I go see, but I'm just like I
(34:09):
remember watching this game growing up there being some good
ones and being like oh, that's asweet state.
I just compact everyone's on thefield.
It looks like, it almost looks like college basketball, like
when it's packed, obviously it'snot been packed every game this
year because like I remember looking at tickets for this and
being like looking at every other Boston College game with
7-8 bucks to get in and then this one's over 150.
(34:29):
Like I know it's dropped here this week.
But yeah, it's just one of thosewhere the one thing I did with
Boston colleges, I know they didn't do the red bandana game
because of they do once a year and obviously it's a game to
sell tickets to. I would have been really cool to
go to that game, the red bandanajersey games.
But yeah, that's really like Boston.
I was like, would that be sweet to go to?
(34:50):
But obviously not going to do itfor snorting because they can
sell tickets to two different games that way.
Exactly. You want to get two different
games where you you get that revenue.
So, so yeah, it'll be good. And you know, like I said, it'll
be a nice long weekend of college football.
And we get to really I we should, we should be able to
enjoy the game and, you know, watch for watch out for some
chaos. We're looking for some chaos
(35:11):
that doesn't involve Notre Dame this weekend.
Yeah, maybe a Penn State win or something, right?
You want you want to talk coaching carousel because I saw
two rumors today prepping for this as I was looking at social.
You can hit it real quick. Yeah, all.
Right. So I saw that Franklin to
Virginia Tech was going to be announced soon.
Yeah, heating up. And Brian Kelly to Penn State.
(35:34):
Yeah, that would be crazy. The one I saw was Dan Lanning
from Oregon to LSU, which would be an interesting one.
Yeah, I, I don't know. I don't know why anyone would
leave Oregon right now. I didn't get a chance to watch
it yet, but there was a press conference with the governor of
Louisiana and it sounds like thegovernor of Louisiana is not a
(35:54):
fan of the athletic director at LSU and made a comment like they
are not going to hire the next head coach after they've made.
The you know. Kelly debacle and it's Yeah.
He hired Jimbo Fisher, too. Yeah, I.
I, I think that the LSU job may be slower to get filled than any
of them. I, I, I just, the governor's
(36:18):
going to assign a new president for LSU and when they assign
that president, they're going toprobably be told you get the job
based on this condition, you fire the athletic director
immediately and go a different direction.
So I I think the LSU job is going to be a lot worse than
what it was, yeah. I was going to say, and we
hadn't even talked about Brian Coach.
I don't get in too much, but I mean, if he's smart, he takes
(36:39):
his buy out and disappears and doesn't coach again.
But that that would be what he was smart, right?
He's stupid about it, though. Yeah, he's he.
He wants to win. He wants to win on the highest
level. I think he'd like to go to the
NFL, quite honestly. And I think he'd probably be a
really good coach in NFL for theright team in the right
situation. And you know, and so he needs,
(37:00):
he needs to get a winning. But he had a lot of former LSU
players, which hasn't been a whole many ongoing, a lot of
praise that he's gone now to LSUand a lot of LSU alumni saying,
oh, we're finally allowed back. I saw Ryan Clark on social
saying they're allowed back intothe you can watch practices and
all that old stuff, which same was pretty similar for Notre
(37:22):
Dame, right? Yeah, Freeman.
Comes in and welcomes back all the alumni and you know once
that community. So I yeah.
So Kelly's going to have to coach and he's going to have to
go someplace where he can he canput together a winning.
Record the dictator, right? And and because they he wants to
be in NFL, he wants to give thata shot.
So I think he needs to follow James Franklin and go to a, you
know, go to go someplace that the winning expectations are a
(37:45):
little lower. Go to go, stay, stay out of the
Big 10. Stay out of the freaking SEC.
I don't know, he could. I could see if Wisconsin opens
up with Luke Fickle maybe being an interesting fit for Brian
Kelly. Honestly, I think his
personality East Coast, he needsto go.
Upper East Coast he needs, he needs to get as close to Boston
as he can get. I mean.
(38:05):
So where where's that going to land him though?
I mean. Boston College, you know.
Yeah. I don't know what opening there
is, but I think like from a personality standpoint and just,
you know, he he wasn't ever, youknow, and he was great at Notre
Dame, but maybe wasn't always genuine.
And it was more like he was annoyed by the by the Notre Dame
fan base. It was, you know, the kind of
(38:27):
the things you hear and he was, he was just annoyed and, you
know, he had the facade of the accent at LSU.
I I just think he's an East Coast guy.
And, you know, I think that's ifhe gets himself back up into the
East Coast where Dunkin' Donuts are prevalent and finds finds
the right situation in US. You know, maybe I don't know, a
smaller ACC school or something where, you know, a win season
(38:50):
makes you look freaking phenomenal and you can knock out
a couple of big games and go over that, that big game.
Brian, you know, hurdle kind of a thing.
I think I think he could, you know, leverage that into an NFL
job. But that's why I think I I don't
know. I've never talked to him, but I
assume that's what like what wasthe Notre Dame?
It was always the talk about like the rumor was he wanted to
go to the NFL. So I was surprised when he left
to go to LSU that it wasn't like, I expect at some point he
(39:13):
was going to leave. It was going to be an NFL job.
You know, you know, New England Patriots or something would have
been like ideal for him. But, you know, so, yeah, we'll
see. We'll see where where that ends
up. But I just thought it was
interesting here. Franklin, the freaking Virginia
Tech and Kelly to Penn State. I'm like, I'm not sure that's a
good move for either Gene Tech. And Franklin would be a great
(39:35):
move. Like that, I think that's a
great move for Franklin and you know, that's a that's a good
atmosphere. I think it's recruitable.
I think he'll he'll, he'll be able to give.
Them a fan base that wants to beready to rock.
Yeah, yeah. I think that's a great move for
him. And I think LSU is going to
struggle with with the whole political situation and, you
know, the people involved. In time you get more government
involvement in these things, theless likely just to get resolved
(39:57):
quickly is my opinion. Yeah, 1 interesting one that has
not been a head coach yet, but except for the LSU Tyrone
Matthew, I guess came out. And said he's interested.
Yeah, the Honey Badger said he'dbe interested, which would be
super interesting because, yeah,you know, LSU, like, wants to
refer to the state of Louisiana.I mean, how many kids you're up
in life? I want to be the Honey Badger,
(40:17):
right? Like, that was the guy, yeah,
he'd obviously need, he needed aprevious head coach on a few of
them on his coaching staff for the OCDC.
He can't just, he can't just go in and be the head coach with
no, no other head coaching experience on that team.
If you've got him and you, you know, and you got him a solid
experienced former head coach asADC and a solid former head
(40:40):
coaches and as an OC, he he would kill it recruiting.
I mean, you know, yeah, he would.
And, and he's got him. I mean, he was a good player.
He's got to know enough ball to Yeah.
And he knows the culture, he knows the situation.
I mean, he could ride Tiger Mikearound the stadium.
I mean, he he could city really fast so that it would be
interesting. I don't know if they'll give him
(41:01):
that opportunity again, because it's being it's going to be made
by the governor of Louisiana andthe governor's trying to figure
out how to get votes. And I don't know if the honey
badger is going to get him votes.
You know, that'll be the interesting there.
So. I think that's going to wrap us
up. We'll be back at the end of the
weekend, maybe 7-9 depending howthe travel goes with Boston
(41:24):
College wrap up. I know we're talking mad about
getting a video out for my travel.
All we did was last year for those who followed along last
year with all of our Rd. trips. So yeah, we'll be getting a
Travel day blog and all that good stuff out.
Yeah. So it's awesome.
Looking forward to it. Looking for meeting up with you
guys on Friday and as always. Irish.
It's the moment you didn't know you're waiting for.
Heals Carter. He's Chad, and this is the.
Irish 365 Podcast Welcome to theIrish 365 Pod.
We're in different locations today, right?
You're on a little business trip.
Managers in our Home Office, so I'm down in the kitchen.
So yeah, we're kind of in StudioE.
What are we in? I'm, I'm in, I'm in remote
(00:23):
studio GI think you're OK? I'm scouting the Northeast, you
know, checking out the Massholes.
I guess we'll put it that way. Yeah, checking out, checking out
the Boston Greater Eric, you're not in Boston, but yeah.
We're outside of Boston currently, so.
Yeah. So yeah, you're on the road this
week for work. Yeah, we're actually be on the
(00:44):
road this week for the game, butwe'll talk about our travel a
little bit later at the end of the podcast for those
interested. But yeah, I mean, it's Boston
College Week. This is technically a rivalry
game. I mean nerd name versus BC
backup college, right? Yeah, you know, there's, it's
funny, I mean, I think there's there's not one school that
Notre Dame disrespects more in the rivalry than it seems to be
(01:07):
Boston College or Little Brotheror backup college or or
whatever, whatever moniker you want to throw on it.
And there's not one school in the rivalry that probably hates
Notre Dame more. And has probably just so much
right to hate us. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, justifiable, like the hate, the hate they have is it's
(01:27):
a respectful hate, but it's still a hate nonetheless.
And I think that's the. Same.
I think a lot of especially United fans around your age
don't like Boston College because they're 93.
Yeah, the that was horrible situation for us in that time
period, so. Yeah.
So I I think, yeah. It's a lot, right?
And I mean. A lot of yeah, a lot of stuff on
EXO I found funny. I said.
(01:48):
One of my favourites from this week is What's the what did
Notre Dame and Boston College students have in common?
Both had Notre Dame as their number one school.
So yeah. So yeah, a lot, a lot of beef on
the old social. It's a lot of yeah, big bro,
little Bros talk. So it is definitely entertaining
out there. But yeah, obviously I know you
(02:09):
want to get a little bit about the holy war, all that good
stuff. 2 Catholic universities, if you don't know, two of the
only Catholic universities in Division One sports.
Correct. I think, I don't think there's
any other Catholic and then we have some Christian ones out
there. Yeah, that might be going to
Catholic in Division One. I was trying to think.
(02:29):
Liberty. No, I don't think liberty is.
Either way. Yeah, anyway, we're the two
major Division One football programs.
We're for sure the two, yeah, Division One football programs
east of the Mississippi. I don't know West of the
Mississippi, but yeah. So yeah, I mean, it's, and it's
like you said, it's it's rivalry.
It's it's a respectful disrespect in both cases.
(02:52):
Like I think the Notre Dame fan base respects Boston College but
disrespects them every chance they get.
It's disrespectful. It should be.
And I think Boston College respects Notre Dame, but they
disrespect us and despise us because they they have the right
to because of the way the way it's portrayed a lot in amongst
the students, the students and things of that nature.
(03:14):
So the game is kind of hard to get excited about in general
because Boston College is just having a tough year where they
won seven right now. And it's like, OK, what's Boston
College bringing to the table? Yeah, one in seven Boston
(03:35):
College teams. Not.
Not something that it's not easyto get excited about.
Yeah. And Notre Dame, I think the
excitement comes in because you start, you know, we're in the
hunt for the college football playoffs and there's a whole
bunch of discussion we can have later is are we a lock?
Are we not a lock? And then if we're not a lock,
how do we get there? And we'll talk about that, I
(03:55):
guess a little bit later. So from the Boston College like
perspective, I'm excited to get a chance to go to this game, but
I I I'm expecting Notre Dame to have just their way right.
And yeah, Notre Dame should be able to do the things it wants
to do and, and do them well. I mean, we're going to want to
run the ball. We're going to want to be
(04:16):
balanced with a little bit of the pass.
Boston College has given up I almost 100 and like 67 yards
rushing every game. It's.
They're not great running backs.To to yeah, to lesser caliber
running situations, right? I think Boston College is only
averaging like 300 and some yards total offense per game.
(04:36):
Yeah. And when you look at Notre
Dame's defense and how we've even against A&M and against
Miami, our defense was terrible,but we held them to less yards
and productivity per game than what they had been doing in
other games. So I mean, like, it's just it's
one of those things where like, OK, our there's no reason for us
(04:59):
to lose this game. And that makes me a little
nervous because it goes back to that 93.
There's no reason for us to losethat game.
However, I think there's a little more at stake here
because we know and I hope the vibe around the GOOG and and the
Notre Dame campus, the Notre Dame team is like, you've got to
win and you've got to win with style points.
You, you know, because you're not a lot.
(05:20):
You need help. So keeping that hunter
mentality, not that, you know, haunted mentality, even though
Boston College is going to goingto make their season if they
find a way to beat us. I think that's going to be kind
of the interesting thing They'regoing to they're going to come
up with a chip on their shoulder.
We should come in with a chip onour shoulder.
And that should that should votewell for how we play and what we
(05:40):
do. Yeah, 28 1/2 point favorites is
a tough one to get high for versus one in 17.
This, like I said, not a very good football team.
It's when you're when we're doing research for this, it's
like, all right, what are they good at?
It's it's it's not easy to find a whole lot, right?
I mean, they let up a lot of rushing yards.
Teams don't throw. I mean, people throw on them,
(06:03):
but they're up by so much that they end up running the ball
more. So, yeah.
And and then you look at their offensive line like they
switched to Grayson James, I think his name is a few weeks
back. I'm assuming he'll be the
rocking with this week at quarterback is rad got down.
He got he played Connecticut twoweeks.
(06:23):
He only got sacked 7 times. Connecticut, yeah, I mean.
No disrespect to Connecticut, but.
Last week there's Louisville wasonly sacked.
Yeah, exactly. Last week versus Louisville was
only sacked twice. But it's like if Connecticut got
7 sacks on this guy, like yeah, it's not not a good spot for
Boston College. So yeah, it's and I was looking
(06:45):
at their leading receiver has 56catches in one touchdown catch,
like their guy with the most receptions.
And it's like, holy, like they have a couple guys with three
touchdowns catches, but their guy with the most catches as
one. So it it's definitely an
interesting situation when you look at their offense, their
defense, you're just like, it's hard to go into this game and
think nerding is not going to get their way.
(07:06):
And normally these bigger spreads, 28 1/2 make me nervous.
This this isn't one of them. That's where I'm at.
I'm not and and I I feel this way, so I'm hoping the team
doesn't, but it's like just comein and take care of business and
this is this game is ours to be had.
I think the only thing we got todo is say, OK, what's the over
(07:26):
and under on this? I think it was. 56 and a half
50. Six, yeah, it was 50 something
and the spreads 28. So you're talking 1442 something
like that is the 46 or somethinglike that is the is the
predicted score. I mean, we just have to we just
have to beat the beat the spread, right?
I mean, if I'm Marcus Freeman, that's got to be the message is
(07:49):
it's not it's not enough to win.We have to beat the spread.
We have to have style points. We got to make a statement
because the two losses early could hurt us in making the
College Football Playoff. Even if even if he doesn't
believe that, I think that's gotto be the message he sends to
the team. Like you need to have these two,
like you've got to have these style points.
(08:10):
You're going to have this big win convincing win because CFP
rankings come out Tuesday and weneed to do everything we can to
put ourselves in that, you know,the ideally top 11 in the first
CFP rankings. Yeah, if you're in the top 11,
we're off the bat. I mean, you're kind.
You're more in control of your destiny, right?
I mean. And if you're not?
If you're not, you definitely need help.
(08:32):
And I think, you know, we saw itlast year because it was kind of
this whole question with the CFPranking, like what are they
going to do, How they going to do it?
The CFP definitely did not have the same perception as what we
got from the coach's poll or theAP.
Poll, right? It's going to be different, like
you just need to respect I, you could be #1 people might not
(08:52):
like, you know what I mean? Something like that, like.
Agree or disagree, right, They they're going to get ranked, you
know, differently and you know. And then usually the week or two
after the AP and coach's poll follow, pretty much it's the
same as customer, player front, do that around it too, so.
Yeah, there's a calibration thattakes place.
Yeah. So, yeah, I think that's kind of
it. So if I'm Notre Dame, I mean,
it's I'm going to be able to runthe ball, at least I anticipate
(09:15):
be able to run the ball at will.And I've got a stable of backs.
I mean, we know that Jeremiah Love.
Well, I mean, let's get him. Let's get him going.
Let's get him going early. Let's see if we get 100 and 5200
yards and get him out out of thegame by halftime.
Let's see if we get priced 100 yards, 150 yards and get him out
of the game by in the third quarter, right?
(09:36):
I mean, let's, let's, let's see if we got somebody else like
Aeneas Williams or someone like that.
Hang, yeah. I would love to see a half, half
to 1/4 of Kenny Minchi time like, you know, meaningful,
meaningful playing time for Kenny Minchi.
Not in a game that that means something like he's got to win
(09:56):
the game or something, but I'd like to see Kenny Minchy get
time just. Extended time, yeah.
Extended playing time, not coming in to take a knee at the
end of the game kind of a thing.So and you know, and the thing
that if there's any Achilles heel right now for the Notre
Dame team, it's got to be the offensive line and just the
injuries because I mean, we saw this last year.
We were deep into the into the yeah chart and we're there
(10:19):
again. So it's almost like the only
place I'm nervous is we can't afford to have, you know,
anymore. It just feels like we can't have
more injuries or. All Yeah, you're I was waiting
for you to ask me what do you think the keys for Notre Dame
this week are? And it's beat the crap out of
them and stay healthy. Yeah, exactly.
I mean that's that's it. That's what we call success,
right? Like we come out of this game,
(10:40):
we win by 29 or more points and we don't have any season end
injuries. Like we got to be able to come
out of this. And yeah, the questionable the
the game, the death trip, this, we get a lot of people
questionable, I think 8 to 10 guys.
So yeah, don't be a problem right now.
And another offseason topic, butyeah, I mean, is our strength
(11:00):
and conditioning program a problem where we're having this
man? It seems like muscle.
It's I don't feel like it's ACL,like it's muscle injuries, it's
hamstrings, it's quads. It's that's an offseason topic
we can get into. But yeah, what's going on there?
It feels like we're having and Iunderstood last year when we're
in week, was it 1516 in the playoffs?
(11:21):
I have like, OK, but we're stillin the first seven games, like
eight games of the season, so I guess that's what, you know what
I mean? Yeah, and it's not like it
hasn't come up in the past. You know, the, the whole is our
strength conditioning program. It's doing a it's doing a the
right thing and helping us develop guys who are highly
(11:44):
conditioned and fast. Yeah, no, no doubt about it.
Notre Dame is, is one of the most athletic fastest teams.
It's been, you know, the last couple of years part of us, the
people we've recruited, but it'salso the strength and
conditioning is maximizing that performance.
But is the trade off to that thethe health or the injury prone
(12:07):
side of it, right? Are they are they conditioning
to, you know, to prevent injury?And I always think of a study
that I read back in the day, youknow, North Carolina women's
soccer had a huge amount of ACL injuries.
And then they found out like half the team had them and half
the team didn't. But they were all in the same
conditioning. And, you know, it turned out the
team, that part of the team thatdidn't have injuries, they were
(12:30):
all rollerbladers, you know, like this is like what?
And just, you know, there was something about the
rollerblading that build up, youknow, some ligaments in the knee
area and they were stronger and they, they were less injury
prone by because they were rollerbladers.
And it was like, so I mean, it, it's not the same that I'm a pro
rollerblade guy. But what it is to say is like
there is definitely something tostrengthening around, you know,
(12:52):
tendons and joints and muscle mass and, you know, and there's
a conflict or a, a inverse relationship between strength
and speed in some cases. I mean, long muscles or fast
muscles, but not very strong muscles.
And I've seen guys in the gym that they're bulk and swole, but
they're not very strong because it just it's their, it's their
(13:14):
lifting technique, right? They're not as strong as you'd
expect them to be. I've seen guys that look like
Pudge and you know, they're, they're freaking strong as a
house. And you're like, whoa.
So there's something to that. That's a balance.
And yeah, are we are we there? And is it is it going to
continue to be an issue? I don't know, but we'll see.
But it's really weird. It's like you said, it's along
the offensive line primarily. That's the big place where I'm
(13:35):
noticing it. Like, and then you go back and
like, you know, losing Coogan and losing some of the guys that
we lost in this offseason. And you're like, yeah, I'd like
to have those guys in the stepping in again this year
because they they serviced us really well.
But, you know, we're we're in a part of that.
I mean, look at our look at our schedule going forward.
It's not like we're going to be,you know, hitting the hardest
(13:58):
part of our schedule. That was the early part of it.
You know, so the tough game coming in with injury prone is
going to be the Navy game, right?
Because Navy's Navy's just goingto come at you for the entire
game and they're going to bring it to you.
And, you know, it seems like youalways have an offensive line
when you get injured during during the Navy game.
So, yeah. So, yeah, I think that's, that's
it. That's a you've you've nailed
(14:18):
it. Keys to the game, right?
Beat the spread, stay healthy. I couldn't have said it better.
Yeah, so I mean, I, I guess do you have any other view?
I don't know what Boston, what even say for Boston skis the
game. I mean, keep the ball.
They're I think -8 on the year, on turnovers, if they can
somehow figure out a protective quarterback, not turn the ball
(14:40):
over, force some turnovers and stay in the game.
I guess we would like to tell Boston College like, make this a
second-half game. Make it.
And it just doesn't feel like I,I had trouble even saying that
this is going to be a game. And that's terrible to say, but.
Yeah, you know, and and and Marcus.
Truman's done very well. Backs against the wall against
these type of teams early in theseason, I'd be more concerned,
(15:03):
yeah. But backs against the wall going
into this off of by week preparing, yeah.
So if we were undefeated and #3 or 4 in the country, I'm with
you. I'd be really concerned.
Yeah. But the fact that, you know,
we've got to win, I think you'llhave them focused.
If I'm Boston College coach, youknow, I'm and I'm not telling my
team this by any by means, but I'm concerned that I just don't
(15:25):
have the right guys. But I'm looking, I'm looking for
anything and everything I can doand I'm I'm going to pull all
the stops. I mean, I'm playing with house
money. No one expects me to win.
I'm going, I'm going to be goingaggressive on 4th down, third
down trick plays. You know, I'm, I'm going to look
at everything in the book and then some to throw it, throw it
(15:47):
Notre Dame. I'm going to try and you know,
I'm going to try and get Christian Grey to be aggressive,
you know, and give me some PIS call calls.
I'm going to, you know, I'm justgoing to, I'm going to try and
attack anything and everything Ican within reason, But I, I'm,
I'm going to try and slow the game down.
I'm going to huddle up. I'm going to, I'm going to milk
(16:07):
the clock to the final frickin seconds.
You know, I'm going to, I'm going to extend my time of
possession as much as I can by running off the clock, limiting
Notre Dame possessions. I'm going to, you know, and I'm
just going to, I'm going to do atrick plays in there.
I'm going to, I'm going to be probably 25 percent, 30%, just,
you know, looks like flag football because I, I, I've got,
(16:30):
I've got athletes, but I don't have the athletes I need to win
straight up so. And I saw this Grayson James, or
whatever his name is, 46 attempts last week against
Louisville. They were trying to throw the
rock. Yeah.
I mean, so I, I assume that they're going to try to get
thrown downfield to make something happen, right?
(16:51):
Yeah, great tendencies do do crazy things.
Throw some trick plays in there,you're going to see Wildcats,
trouble reverses, Statue of Liberty, you know, fake punts.
You have nothing to lose, right?No one's expecting you to come
in and beat Notre Dame, but you know, it's a 330 kick at home.
So the crowd's going to be with you for the 1st 2 minutes.
(17:11):
Try, try and get him to stay with you beyond that.
And you know, and, and if you can hang around to the fourth
quarter and you can catch Notre Dame off guard and that's part
of it. You know, I'm going to hope
Notre Dame, I'm hope going to hope Notre Dame's not quite like
focused and you know, they're distracted.
I'm going to probably, I'm goingto probably say, you know, hey,
let's get some, let's get some pro friendly Notre Dame media
(17:32):
like lying around their hotel. You know, let's let's see if we
can get some undercooked fish served to the team prior the
night before for dinner and or, you know, like, whatever I can
do, right? The old Michael Jordan flu game
and where, yeah, maybe the pizzawas or wasn't tainted with
something that made him sick kind of a thing.
Like, you know, I'm going to look for any advantage I can.
But if I'm Boston College, I'm. I'm really praying for a
(17:54):
miracle. You know, to, to quote Lou
Holtz, God doesn't care who winsa football game, but his mother
does. So, you know, I'm.
I'm going to hope that I find favor with Mary if I'm, if I'm
lost in college. So yeah.
So yeah, you're going to get score predictions here then.
Yeah, let's let's, let's go at it.
(18:14):
You got yours. I do.
Yeah. I'm feeling bold and again, I
think I think it's imperative that Notre Dame has a big
victory and covers the spread and they need style points.
I'm feeling this game is going to be a 49 seven.
OK497. 49 seven is my my shot. What do you got We're.
(18:39):
Very close. I'm 5210, I've got another field
goal for the Irish on it and I've got a 52.
Three in Boston College is goingto get a scrappy score late.
You know, I'm, I don't think they're going to get their seven
until the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's I think it's
scrappy. Score late, don't feel goal
along the way. At some point, yeah. 5210 is
(19:01):
what I got, I think. They're going to continue to
battle and it's going to be the fourth quarter.
We're going to have probably some younger guys in the
secondary getting experience andthey're going to, you know,
they're going to, they're going to be able to find something.
I think when they go quick against the young guys, that's
when they'll get one. Yeah.
Like, you talk about them slowing it down, they're going
to go quickly and that's probably when they'll they'll
get us. Yeah.
(19:23):
I mean, this is a team that it, it should not be a ball game.
So yeah, I mean, you're going toget into the contest this week
and then you can talk a little bit over travel plans.
How about that? Well, let's talk CFP for just a
second. Let's do contests.
I mean, to me, it's it's got to be rushing yards.
What do you think? Yeah, Tiger.
So let's get this. If you'd like to win two tickets
(19:43):
in our game first Syracuse draws.
This is We got three more chances to enter this contest.
So yeah, we're we're getting close to that draw.
You'll automatically win an Irish 365 T-shirt and then you
will get entered in to win our two nerd universities.
Tickets for that draw will be taking place after that
Pittsburgh game here in a few weeks.
Yeah, all you got to do is correctly guess the nerd and
(20:04):
rushing yards this week. We were going to just say price
and love, but we think there's some chances that we see some
other guys. We're going to go nerd and team
rushing yards and total. Rushing yards.
Yeah, all we got to do is followus on X and then comma
underneath this video and you can win.
We get you to win those two tickets and win that R-65
T-shirt. And those people I know we've
(20:25):
got to reach out to us. They should be getting their
shirts, I think last week. And yeah.
This this week, they're they're they're they're dropping like
Christmas this week. So yeah.
Envy the. Envy the neighborhood in those
people's house really soon. Yeah, they should have them by
game time, is what we're thinking, right?
Absolutely they'll they'll be rocked them.
Let's let's see those pictures on X, right?
Let's. Oh, yeah.
Drop your picture with the shirts.
(20:45):
So, yeah, Yeah. So.
So, yeah, I think that sums up the contest this week.
It's pretty simple. No name Rusty Yards.
I think I think CJ will have a good day.
But yeah, that was like a game where we're going to dominate on
the ground because we're not going to throw the ball and
we're up 35 points. Yeah.
No need to, right? Just yeah, control the ball.
And I mean, Love and Price are going to get there before it's
(21:07):
$35. Like, I don't feel like CJ is
going to throw for five touchdowns and we're going to
run the ball. No, they're going to have three
or four. TJ might throw for one or two
and and that one or two might beto that so.
Oh, I could see CJ having 250 in3/4 and us run the ball heavy
and and still end up there. Yeah, You know, I, I, I could
just try to get love a couple 100 yards.
(21:29):
Yeah. Just for the Heisman talk.
I mean, is he going to win the Heisman?
No, probably not. Do I think you should?
Yes. Am I biased?
Absolutely yeah, Is is there thethe the every year that ends in
A5 running back seems to win theHeisman yes, there's there's
some history there. I I just don't think he'll win
it, but. I think he's the best player in
(21:51):
college football. I don't think that means he wins
the Heisman. Yeah, it's it's, it's a
quarterback award primarily, butI think he deserves the
nomination and I think he deserves to be in New York.
And I consider that a win if he makes it to New York as a
running back. So I'd like to send Manti Tayo
win it in 2012. But hey, just the fact that he
got invited to New York was awesome for for a linebacker,
(22:14):
but he also had seven interceptions that year, which
is ridiculous for a linebacker. So, so, yeah, CFPI think that's
we touched on a little bit. I think that's kind of
interesting is none of the pollsmatter until like we said
Tuesday, right? Yeah.
And, and I think there's a amongst the Notre Dame fan base,
there's a whole bunch bunch of different opinions, but I'd
(22:36):
break it into 3. There is the world.
We're 10 and two were a lot because we're Notre Dame.
There's the we're 10 and two, but we have to have style
points. But we're still in control of
our destiny as long as we win with style points.
And then there's the we're goingto have to be 10 and two.
We're going to have to have style points and we're going to
need some help. Where do you, where do you fall
(22:58):
in that? Do you think 10 and two was
style points? 10 and 2 is enough?
Do you think 10:00 and 2:00? I think I'm kind of yeah, 10 and
two and style points is where I'm at because I feel like, and
I'm almost leaning tended to lock because yeah, I mean, if we
beat Boston College by three, ifwe beat maybe by three, if we
win all these next games by three points and I'm not like,
Oh my gosh, we're in. But yeah, make sure if we have
(23:20):
let's just say pit, we beat by 10 and but the rest of the games
you win by 21 plus. I'm probably a guy will
probably, you know what I mean? I'm not convinced you got to
beat all these teams by 75. I know some people out there
are. So yeah, that's kind of right.
I'm 10 and two feels like a goodone, especially with wins over
USC. It'll be interesting where they
come in, in the Cos Football Playoff rankings.
(23:40):
I know they got ranked back in the eight people this week.
What's the committee's thought on Navy teams like that where we
get some wins? Yeah.
And is it USC still behind Michigan after beating Michigan
earlier this year? Yeah.
Like, I can't believe the CFP committee is going to keep that
in just half place. I mean, he's got to be head of
Michigan. Yeah, I don't know if Michigan's
(24:03):
25 or 12, but wherever they're at, US CS got to be ahead of
them. Yeah, you think, but I mean,
actually the same argument couldhappen versus if we're ahead of
A&M or Miami somehow. You know what I mean?
I don't at some point. I don't see us being ahead of
A&M. Well, we're not going to head
A&M. They're on defeat.
But Miami, yeah, I don't. I don't think we'll be.
I think we'll be one behind Miami.
(24:24):
Miami ends up. I think we'll we won't be.
We won't do any better than I don't say we't one behind him,
but we won't be any better than one behind him.
I can't see us. I'd be shocked if there was any,
any scenario. Unless Miami drops a game you
know down the stretch, they shouldn't.
But they did last year, they weren't about to be in easily
last year to drop some games down the stretch.
But they've got a lot ahead of them.
(24:45):
I mean, you know, they're outside looking in right now on
the ACC Championship. But you got to, you got to think
that Georgia Tech's got Georgia ahead of them.
There's a loss coming for them and.
That's not AC loss. And and you know, but I mean,
that's, that's going to drop them, but it's not going to get
them out of the ACC Championship, right?
(25:09):
So I could see a scenario where the committee and there's
someone who represents the ACC on the committee will say, hey,
I'm going to make the argument that Miami should be ranked high
so that, you know, I can get theACC champion and Miami into the
playoffs. And, you know, and, and the way
(25:30):
it worked out last year, if you won your conference
championship, you were you got the bye, right You so you got
that first round bye. If you lost your conference
championship, you might have hadto go on the road or you might,
you might have got, I mean, I think they had one on the road,
right? The conference, the team that
lost the conference championship, unless there was a
(25:53):
third team in the conference that we've made it.
And then like the conference championship loser got got the
host the second round and the third team was out.
So I think the ranking will kindof fall into that same sort of
category. So you're not going to get 2 ACC
teams in, I don't think unless one of them's Miami and the ACC
champion, I don't think the, I don't think the ACC loser makes
(26:16):
makes the play. I don't think ACC is going to
get three teams in, so I think Miami set up pretty nicely.
If Miami wins out, they've got AI.
Think Georgia Tech. Yeah, Georgia Tech's A-Team.
They got the best chance for theACC as well to get in but if.
Georgia Tech loses the ACC championship.
You still think they make it in?If they beat Georgia.
If they beat Georgia and I. Don't.
Yeah. And they almost did last year,
(26:36):
though. I, I it's.
A good Georgia Tech team. I mean, we're, yeah.
Because I think, I think if Georgia Tech loses the Georgia
and then loses the ACC or beats George and loses the ACC
championship, they got a case. Yeah, which would be interesting
because now you're starting and that makes it very difficult for
Notre Dame. Yeah, if.
You start talking, yeah, the more yeah, the more multi big
conferences get in that are always for us.
(26:59):
Right. So I think three, I think 3 SEC
teams is pretty much a lock at this point.
Yeah, I can't see a scenario where there's not three SEC
teams. Three Big 10 teams feels pretty
likely between Ohio State, IU and then Oregon.
There'll be another one sneak in, but yeah, that that's still
(27:19):
likely. So if you throw in three ACC
teams, you've got. None.
Who's the 3rd ACC team you're thinking about?
I'm just saying if Georgia, if so, who's in the ACC
Championship because. Like Georgia Tech, I don't
remember who would be in it right now.
Right. Doesn't even matter who it is if
it's not Miami. I think Miami might be Miami.
(27:39):
Georgia Tech might be it right now.
I was. Thinking Miami, I think where
somebody else was in there. Louisville beat Miami, but then
Louisville lost to Boston College.
Oh, they lost. That's right, they lost.
Or they're not to Boston CollegeLouisville.
Louisville has some other laws, I suppose.
But is it? Is it in conference?
I was thinking somebody else wasundefeated in conference.
Maybe Louisville is, Yeah, I don't have my notes with brother
(28:00):
right now. So so you end up with Louisville
and Georgia Tech in the championship in Miami on the
outside, and if Georgia Tech beats Georgia and loses to
Louisville in the championship game?
Then. Then you're then you've got
those three teams in. Yeah.
And you're not going to put Notre Dame in over Miami if
(28:20):
unless Miami loses along the waybecause then you got the whole
argument. Well, Miami was good early and
bad late. Notre Dame was bad early and
good late. So you might get that
controversial pick, but but yeah, now that you're if you're
9 teams there and then you got the the out large power 5 plus
the Big 12. Like, that's boy No game still
has a path, but it's narrow. Yeah.
(28:42):
So. Yeah, it's, let me just see
where the rankings come out to start next week because I mean,
you always need a data point to start, right?
I mean, this we can talk what is, what is what is, but yeah,
it's what's the absolute will that matter?
I think, right. I mean, it's Norden could be
ranked 8th next week. I would be surprised.
Norden could be ranked 19th nextweek.
I don't think we'd be too surprised.
I mean, I expect to be somewherearound the 131415 or 8:00.
(29:05):
But the committee, I mean, the committee's got their opinions,
right. I.
Think Notre Dame will be. My guess is Notre Dame's going
to be 10 or 11 yeah, committee. That's where I feel like we're
going to end up at I. Agree with that.
But yeah, I mean, it won't surprise me if we're eight.
It won't surprise me if we're 20.
Yeah, I would, I would be surprised if we're less than 8.
I'd be surprised if we're higherthan 15.
(29:26):
Yeah. And I can't like I could see
them having us on the bubble like but.
Honestly, thirteen seems like the.
Floor yeah, I, I would say 13's the floor and eight's the
ceiling and I, I really think 10or 11 is probably where we're at
where we're in control of our own destiny.
Where. And I think, you know, I'm
conspiracy theorist when it comes to the projections of the
(29:49):
bull committees and everything else is they're looking at more
than just the quality of the winds.
They're looking at selling tickets and revenue generation.
And I know that Notre Dame brings something to the table
there. You know, I was on the whole
conspiracy theory that the the home teams hosting were going to
be the biggest stadiums. So, you know, that's why Penn
State was going to host and, youknow, Tennessee was going to
(30:09):
host and Notre Dame was going tohost because they had big
stadiums sort of a thing. So so yeah, I'm a little jaded,
I admit it. But I I think we're 10 or 11.
We'll see. Ask me again on Wednesday and
I'll tell you. Yeah, exactly.
That's you a week from now, right?
So yeah, let's let's talk travel.
I mean, I'm, I'm pre traveling, so I'm, I'm I'm ahead of things.
But yeah, let's, let's, I mean, we get the whole crew, the whole
(30:32):
Irish 365 crew was. Yeah, about five of us were
making out to Boston this week, which is going to be exciting.
Yep. I know you mom and Kate are
going out. You're coming back home, then
you'll be flying out Thursday evening out to Boston.
Me and Matt are flying out Friday morning.
We're we're stoked for it, sightseeing a little bit Friday
afternoon, Friday evening, got some things planned and then
(30:54):
yeah, Saturday, I don't know what the plan is, but games
3:30. So it's going to be nice,
hopefully. Sure, Boss is going to be a
little chilly looking at it winsand stuff, but yeah, it's not.
Going to be terrible. I mean, and again, the 3:30
kicks going to be it's going to be nice, it's going to be
comfortable, it's going to get alittle cool at the end of the
game. So that'll be a little bit
tricky. Your your mom will not know
(31:15):
where there were shorts or ski coat but but.
Yeah, and this is honestly, I don't know why, but this I know
we've talked about this like Boston Palestinian just looks so
cool to me. Like it's just I'm I'm a sucker
for like these 40,000 person stadiums.
It's like just tight compact like a lot of these a lot of
these schools that can't sell out these 80 to 100,000 persons
(31:37):
they can should build these likeeven power fives like pit
Panthers Miami even like build these dams that are 40,000 make
them come back, make them a makethem a raucous atmosphere.
Yeah, this day I'm exactly because I know we're oh section
oh row 20, but we're going to be50 feet from the field still
like. We're we're worth the we're the
(31:59):
highest section, you know, last row, you know that in the Notre
Dame, yeah, you know, and and that I that's what was going to
be fun because you know, we're going to be amongst the Notre
Dame families and and the other alumni and season ticket
holders, people that have got tickets to university and we're
going to get terrible seats likewe did at USC.
But these aren't going to be terrible.
Like these are going to be like,not as good as there's better
(32:20):
seats, but these aren't. We're going to be sitting in the
end zone, not 30 people buying the end zone.
Yes, or all the hot black bleachers, you know, smelling.
Yeah, I think it is Bleacher seating though at alumni.
I think you're correct, but it'snot going to be hot black
bleachers in the sun. You know, it's not going to be
it's it's going to. And again, it's it's in the city
of Boston, which is a cool city.It's you know, it's going to be
great vibe, great college campus.
(32:41):
I'm looking forward to seeing it.
I mean, you know, there's a tie in here for Kaden.
You know, his he's doing a thingin social studies right now,
which is we the people and aboutthe constitution of the founding
fathers. So no better time for him to
spend the weekend in Boston and,you know, do a little history,
little history lessons. So I'm big, I'm big on that.
So, yeah, might hit the Notre Dame Club of Boston tailgate
(33:03):
pregame. So that might be fun.
So yeah, Friday will be Friday will be a good family hangout
day and dual sightseeing. Little history.
Yeah. I don't know if your mom was
disappointed. She's talking about wanting to
go to the Cheers bar. I'm like, it just looks like the
Cheers from outside. You go inside, looks nothing
like Cheers, the TV show which is so old you don't even know
what I'm talking about. I know what it is but never
(33:24):
watched. It yeah, the jokes wouldn't land
today. They're they're 40 years past
their prime. So so yeah, she's she's got some
ideas. We'll see if we can talk her off
the ledge there. I think she's come around on
that one. I've already brew into the
disappointment before. So yeah, it'll be good.
It'll be fun to have the entire squad together and make the
game. We've only got to do that a
couple times this year with justthe schedule.
So it'll be good to do it on a road trip, which, you know, I
(33:46):
can't say it's been one of my major bucket list visits, but it
is a place I've always wanted togo see Notre Dame play as like,
yeah, the Notre Dame Boston College game is a game I've
always wanted to go see in person at Boston College.
So I'm excited for that. That's another check.
Check at the bucket. List and I really don't think my
state is going to be like the great.
I'm not going to like write about the same like oh, you got
to go to Boston. I go see, but I'm just like I
(34:09):
remember watching this game growing up there being some good
ones and being like oh, that's asweet state.
I just compact everyone's on thefield.
It looks like, it almost looks like college basketball, like
when it's packed, obviously it'snot been packed every game this
year because like I remember looking at tickets for this and
being like looking at every other Boston College game with
7-8 bucks to get in and then this one's over 150.
(34:29):
Like I know it's dropped here this week.
But yeah, it's just one of thosewhere the one thing I did with
Boston colleges, I know they didn't do the red bandana game
because of they do once a year and obviously it's a game to
sell tickets to. I would have been really cool to
go to that game, the red bandanajersey games.
But yeah, that's really like Boston.
I was like, would that be sweet to go to?
(34:50):
But obviously not going to do itfor snorting because they can
sell tickets to two different games that way.
Exactly. You want to get two different
games where you you get that revenue.
So, so yeah, it'll be good. And you know, like I said, it'll
be a nice long weekend of college football.
And we get to really I we should, we should be able to
enjoy the game and, you know, watch for watch out for some
chaos. We're looking for some chaos
(35:11):
that doesn't involve Notre Dame this weekend.
Yeah, maybe a Penn State win or something, right?
You want you want to talk coaching carousel because I saw
two rumors today prepping for this as I was looking at social.
You can hit it real quick. Yeah, all.
Right. So I saw that Franklin to
Virginia Tech was going to be announced soon.
Yeah, heating up. And Brian Kelly to Penn State.
(35:34):
Yeah, that would be crazy. The one I saw was Dan Lanning
from Oregon to LSU, which would be an interesting one.
Yeah, I, I don't know. I don't know why anyone would
leave Oregon right now. I didn't get a chance to watch
it yet, but there was a press conference with the governor of
Louisiana and it sounds like thegovernor of Louisiana is not a
(35:54):
fan of the athletic director at LSU and made a comment like they
are not going to hire the next head coach after they've made.
The you know. Kelly debacle and it's Yeah.
He hired Jimbo Fisher, too. Yeah, I.
I, I think that the LSU job may be slower to get filled than any
of them. I, I, I just, the governor's
(36:18):
going to assign a new president for LSU and when they assign
that president, they're going toprobably be told you get the job
based on this condition, you fire the athletic director
immediately and go a different direction.
So I I think the LSU job is going to be a lot worse than
what it was, yeah. I was going to say, and we
hadn't even talked about Brian Coach.
I don't get in too much, but I mean, if he's smart, he takes
(36:39):
his buy out and disappears and doesn't coach again.
But that that would be what he was smart, right?
He's stupid about it, though. Yeah, he's he.
He wants to win. He wants to win on the highest
level. I think he'd like to go to the
NFL, quite honestly. And I think he'd probably be a
really good coach in NFL for theright team in the right
situation. And you know, and so he needs,
(37:00):
he needs to get a winning. But he had a lot of former LSU
players, which hasn't been a whole many ongoing, a lot of
praise that he's gone now to LSUand a lot of LSU alumni saying,
oh, we're finally allowed back. I saw Ryan Clark on social
saying they're allowed back intothe you can watch practices and
all that old stuff, which same was pretty similar for Notre
(37:22):
Dame, right? Yeah, Freeman.
Comes in and welcomes back all the alumni and you know once
that community. So I yeah.
So Kelly's going to have to coach and he's going to have to
go someplace where he can he canput together a winning.
Record the dictator, right? And and because they he wants to
be in NFL, he wants to give thata shot.
So I think he needs to follow James Franklin and go to a, you
know, go to go someplace that the winning expectations are a
(37:45):
little lower. Go to go, stay, stay out of the
Big 10. Stay out of the freaking SEC.
I don't know, he could. I could see if Wisconsin opens
up with Luke Fickle maybe being an interesting fit for Brian
Kelly. Honestly, I think his
personality East Coast, he needsto go.
Upper East Coast he needs, he needs to get as close to Boston
as he can get. I mean.
(38:05):
So where where's that going to land him though?
I mean. Boston College, you know.
Yeah. I don't know what opening there
is, but I think like from a personality standpoint and just,
you know, he he wasn't ever, youknow, and he was great at Notre
Dame, but maybe wasn't always genuine.
And it was more like he was annoyed by the by the Notre Dame
fan base. It was, you know, the kind of
(38:27):
the things you hear and he was, he was just annoyed and, you
know, he had the facade of the accent at LSU.
I I just think he's an East Coast guy.
And, you know, I think that's ifhe gets himself back up into the
East Coast where Dunkin' Donuts are prevalent and finds finds
the right situation in US. You know, maybe I don't know, a
smaller ACC school or something where, you know, a win season
(38:50):
makes you look freaking phenomenal and you can knock out
a couple of big games and go over that, that big game.
Brian, you know, hurdle kind of a thing.
I think I think he could, you know, leverage that into an NFL
job. But that's why I think I I don't
know. I've never talked to him, but I
assume that's what like what wasthe Notre Dame?
It was always the talk about like the rumor was he wanted to
go to the NFL. So I was surprised when he left
to go to LSU that it wasn't like, I expect at some point he
(39:13):
was going to leave. It was going to be an NFL job.
You know, you know, New England Patriots or something would have
been like ideal for him. But, you know, so, yeah, we'll
see. We'll see where where that ends
up. But I just thought it was
interesting here. Franklin, the freaking Virginia
Tech and Kelly to Penn State. I'm like, I'm not sure that's a
good move for either Gene Tech. And Franklin would be a great
(39:35):
move. Like that, I think that's a
great move for Franklin and you know, that's a that's a good
atmosphere. I think it's recruitable.
I think he'll he'll, he'll be able to give.
Them a fan base that wants to beready to rock.
Yeah, yeah. I think that's a great move for
him. And I think LSU is going to
struggle with with the whole political situation and, you
know, the people involved. In time you get more government
involvement in these things, theless likely just to get resolved
(39:57):
quickly is my opinion. Yeah, 1 interesting one that has
not been a head coach yet, but except for the LSU Tyrone
Matthew, I guess came out. And said he's interested.
Yeah, the Honey Badger said he'dbe interested, which would be
super interesting because, yeah,you know, LSU, like, wants to
refer to the state of Louisiana.I mean, how many kids you're up
in life? I want to be the Honey Badger,
(40:17):
right? Like, that was the guy, yeah,
he'd obviously need, he needed aprevious head coach on a few of
them on his coaching staff for the OCDC.
He can't just, he can't just go in and be the head coach with
no, no other head coaching experience on that team.
If you've got him and you, you know, and you got him a solid
experienced former head coach asADC and a solid former head
(40:40):
coaches and as an OC, he he would kill it recruiting.
I mean, you know, yeah, he would.
And, and he's got him. I mean, he was a good player.
He's got to know enough ball to Yeah.
And he knows the culture, he knows the situation.
I mean, he could ride Tiger Mikearound the stadium.
I mean, he he could city really fast so that it would be
interesting. I don't know if they'll give him
(41:01):
that opportunity again, because it's being it's going to be made
by the governor of Louisiana andthe governor's trying to figure
out how to get votes. And I don't know if the honey
badger is going to get him votes.
You know, that'll be the interesting there.
So. I think that's going to wrap us
up. We'll be back at the end of the
weekend, maybe 7-9 depending howthe travel goes with Boston
(41:24):
College wrap up. I know we're talking mad about
getting a video out for my travel.
All we did was last year for those who followed along last
year with all of our Rd. trips. So yeah, we'll be getting a
Travel day blog and all that good stuff out.
Yeah. So it's awesome.
Looking forward to it. Looking for meeting up with you
guys on Friday and as always. Irish.
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by Audiochuck Media Company.
The Brothers Ortiz
The Brothers Ortiz is the story of two brothers–both successful, but in very different ways. Gabe Ortiz becomes a third-highest ranking officer in all of Texas while his younger brother Larry climbs the ranks in Puro Tango Blast, a notorious Texas Prison gang. Gabe doesn’t know all the details of his brother’s nefarious dealings, and he’s made a point not to ask, to protect their relationship. But when Larry is murdered during a home invasion in a rented beach house, Gabe has no choice but to look into what happened that night. To solve Larry’s murder, Gabe, and the whole Ortiz family, must ask each other tough questions.