Welcome to Andy Staples on three. I am still in South Bend because it takes a while to recover from something like that.

That was an incredible game between Ohio State and Notre Dame. Still cannot believe how it went down, how it ended.

I think probably Marcus Freeman at Notre Dame feels the same way.

We didn't get to this last night because we were too busy talking about Ryan Day and how

mad he was at Lou Holtz. But let's talk about Marcus Freeman. Let's talk about that situation

because it was a chance for his first signature win as Notre Dame's head coach. And they were right there on the doorstep, but they couldn't quite get it done.

And at the very end, the last play, Chip Taranum plunges in from one yard out.

As we now know, Notre Dame only had 10 guys on the field on that play.

Our guy Tyler Horker from blue and gold.com asked Marcus Freeman about that after the game. Marcus, the film shows that on that last play. There were only 10 people on the field. Just curious what happened. Yeah, we were trying to get a fourth D-Lignment on the field. And I told him just stay off because we can't, we can't afford a penalty. I didn't have any time else, right? So we couldn't afford a penalty there. you know and yeah

it's all nice I didn't have any timeouts, right? So we couldn't afford a penalty there.

You know, yeah, it's on us.

It's got to be better.

Before that, when the game comes down to that last play like that,

what's the message to the team in the huddle just before they get down on the field?

Freaking win the interval.

That's all I said.

So I said, you know, there was really two plays.

We caught a timeout on third down, right? And so there's two plays really to be prepared for in that situation. And so, you know, it went and threw it, incomplete pass, had three seconds left, and we couldn't get a timeout, right? We were out of timeouts. You can't really, the crowd's allowed. you can't relay a message.

And so, you know, I told him we're probably going to run the same call twice and that's uh what we end up doing

that's a frustrated marcus freeman right there tough situation to be in because you have no time

outs you can send the guy onto the field and if he's not across the line of scrimmage and where he needs to be when that ball snapped,

there's a penalty.

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