Welcome to the Andy Staples show.

It's been a while since we have answered your question.

So let's do a dear Andy episode.

I brought in my friend Ari Wasserman.

He's here to probably piss you off.

But hey, listen, Ari, we all have our talents.

We haven't said the word Michigan on this podcast in like six months. I'm starting to worry about us a

little bit, you know? I don't know that we're going to say it on this one either. I don't think we are.

Hey, listen, I wrote a column in praise of Michigan for actually negotiating a fair market contract

that reflected the coaches' value in the marketplace. So, hey, we're on the Michigan folks'

good side. I don't know how happy they are with Jim Harbaugh back, but at least they're not

paying too much for them. So that's the joy there. Yeah, I mean, that's something that you don't see very often in the coaching ranks and good for them, especially during a year where buyouts aren't supposed to be as easy as they've been at other places, too, with COVID and everything. So it'll be interesting to see with an incentive-based contract and, you know, the ability to hire some new guys. They hired Mike Hart as a running back coach this week or last week.

That's an interesting situation there.

I'm looking forward to tracking it.

It will be interesting.

But here's another one.

And we'll start with our first question.

It comes from Stephen Los Angeles.

Looking at the last decade plus, it's occurred to me that two conditions are necessary to win a national title. One, a roster with at least 50% four or five star players,

and two, either a elite, not just very good, QB, or to be, B, Alabama, who recruit and

develop talent at such a ridiculous level that they can skip the whole elite QB thing,

though they sometimes have that too. Given that, am I crazy for thinking that Notre Dame could actually

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