As promised, Tony Simeone is with us. He, of course, is the radio voice of Notre Dame football as well as men's basketball.

How many years is this for men's basketball now for you, Tony, five, six, something like that?

Time flies. All you got to do is just go back to the Jack Nolan retirement date, which we all remember.

Which is, yeah. So this will, coming up, this will be my fifth season.

So I've done four years, the final two of the Mike Bray era and the first two of the Coach Shrewsbury era.

So it is actually hard to believe that starting this year, when they throw that ball in the air for the first game,

I'll have done more Michael Shrewsbury era basketball than

Mike Bray, which blows me away. But it's, it's been an awesome experience, no doubt. Absolutely.

And Tony does a great job doing both of those calls on the Notre Dame Radio Network. And of course,

he is also the host of the Wake Up the Echoes podcast. And you get to talk to a little bit of everybody over there at Notre Dame

when that thing is up and rolling, don't you?

Yeah, yeah, that's a great Monday chat.

I get to have everybody.

I know it comes out on Tuesdays,

but it's pretty much Monday morning.

Every week for me, it's great to kind of check in with Coach Freeman, Coach Shrewsbury,

Coach Ivy, who I know you're familiar with, of course. And then, you know, the athletic director,

Pete of Aqua, was kind of our fourth regular guest, if that makes sense. We did five shows with him. And I found those to be incredibly enlightening as well, especially as I know

you're aware with all the stuff coming down from the house settlement now. He was talking about that

months before and kind of what that would look like for Notre Dame. So I find those, and I hope

our listeners do as well, pretty informative to kind of, you know, there's so many moving parts now

in college athletics. I can't keep track of

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