Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock.

I'm Pete Samson, joined by Matt Fortuna.

We've been traveling for the last week.

We were together in Phoenix, Arizona,

where we somehow ran out of time to do a podcast.

And then we were hanging out with various Notre Dame head coaches

and administrators in the southeast.

Yeah.

So I was with Marcus Freeman at his alumni events in Tampa and Hilton Head this week.

You were with him last night in Chicago, but then you were also in Amelia Island for ACCC meetings.

And that leads us to our special mid-podcast interview with Notre Dame men's basketball head coach Mike Bray who has a incredible

like a p.s de resistance story about the nameplate on George O'Leary's office door at Notre

Dame. So if you listen to nothing else in this podcast, stick around for that. But Matt,

why don't we do Freeman first?

You went to the event, Chicago.

I mean, what did you think, sort of how he handled that room, how he worked that room,

just sort of your impressions of that part of the Marcus Freeman experience?

He was great, not surprising.

Chris Orich, there didn't him, great, hosted a conversation with him for, I don't want to guess how many people are there,

but there were a lot.

And, you know, Marcus was great.

I mean, it was interesting to see him interact with a questioner who was a letter winner who could talk about coming back for the spring game and pointing to other letter

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