Welcome back to the shamrock after a few weeks off.

I'm Pete Samson, joined as always by my co-host Matt Fortuna.

Today's special guest from the AP.

You listen to him on the AP Top 25 college football podcast, hopefully this week because he had

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman on.

Insightful interview.

We'll talk about that.

You guys are both out covering the ACC tournament.

We can get a little bit of hoops coverage.

And obviously we need to spend at least 25 minutes on Buddy Beham suspension because that is the big story in college athletics these days.

But Ralph, thanks for, thanks for coming on the show.

And I want to just jump right into your interview with Marcus Freibin.

Matt and I, he's been on this podcast. We've spent some time around him. I don't know how much you have. But just what were your impressions in a 15, 20 minute conversation with him as as Notre name's new head coach. Yeah. You know, for your listeners, I don't know if I covered any new ground just because is there, I mean, you know,

the way. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, his talk, when he talked about reaching out to all the former Narname head coaches, not just the successful ones. I thought that was interesting. Yeah. So, so, so right. Yeah. And I say that only because again, like, you know, this is a guy who's got a lot of attention.

So I always worry about,

like,

can I come up with anything he hasn't heard before?

I think that's my like, you know, this is a guy who's gotten a lot of attention. So I always worry about, like, can I come up with anything he hasn't heard before?

I think that my initial impression was I've heard how confident he is.

I felt like there was a certain self-awareness that, like, yeah, I know this is going to be a little,

this is going to be hard.

Like, I mean, like, he didn't come out and say that, but you got the impression that he understood that, like, this is a very hard job. I have been told I'm great, but, you know, I understand, like, it's one thing to be told you're great, like, and one thing to actually feel like you are great. So I thought that there was, again, a little bit of humbleness there for a guy who has really shot up like meteorically

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