For the Love of the Game
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Athletic
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Matt Fortuna returns to the show to discuss his piece on former Notre Dame QB Phil Jurkovec's decision to transfer. Matt travelled to Boston and spoke 1 on 1 with the new BC QB who "lost his love for the game" at Notre Dame. Pete Sampson is back from his trip to Tampa where he spoke to Brian Kelly about Notre Dame's new efforts on the recruiting trail. Will the Irish win a title in the next 10 years?
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| 0:33.3 | Music Welcome to the latest episode of the shamrock. |
| 0:49.2 | I'm Pete Sampson, rejoined by Matt Fortuna in Chicago after his worldwide travels. |
| 0:55.6 | Matt, you had an interesting story from your trip to Boston that we're going to get into later in the show, |
| 1:02.5 | spent some time with Philo Girovich, former Notre Dame quarterback potential Boston College starter this year. |
| 1:08.0 | Before we do that, I had sort of a, I think piece would be probably too dramatic |
| 1:14.2 | of a term to describe my look at Notre Dame's new recruiting strategy with Brian Kelly |
| 1:22.7 | more invested in the process or seemingly more involved at a minimum. |
| 1:27.8 | You know, some insights from recruiting coordinator, Brian Pollian, |
| 1:31.6 | on Kelly's involvement and sort of where the biggest delta is that they can affect moving |
| 1:37.3 | forward. |
| 1:37.8 | Also, Jack Swarbrick in there. |
| 1:40.5 | I asked him a few times about sort of the private air travel investing more in infrastructure. |
| 1:47.3 | And I sort of tried to take a step back and catch up with a couple analysts, Barton Simmons, |
| 1:52.7 | who's been on this podcast, Mike Farrell, who I used to work with at rivals.com. |
| 1:56.7 | And basically lay out, okay, if Notre Dame is going to be a top five, it's not just one thing. |
| 2:03.0 | It's about eight different things that have to happen. |
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