Welcome to the Andy Staples show, a special Dear Andy Edition.

We haven't had one of the, well, we had one of these fairly recently.

We haven't done a lot of these.

We're going to do a lot more here in the off season.

You guys always have such good questions and take us in very creative directions.

And we've got some fun questions today.

I am recording this on Sunday night right before the start of the Bill's Chiefs game.

So at this point, all three of the playoff games in the NFL this weekend have ended on a last second fuel goal.

Proof positive that if you have a multi-round playoff and one round stinks, it's quite probable that the next round might be pretty good.

Or vice versa.

So just put that in your back pocket for 2026 because, you know, we're probably going to have to wait until 2026 thanks to the ACC.

Speaking of the ACC, our first question comes from Ethan.

And it says, hey, Andy, I was thinking about the ACC's Notre Dame issue.

The ACC wants them and Notre Dame wants its prime time slot and flexibility.

Isn't there a way, especially if the ACC's

media rights still gets voided with new members to, quote unquote, guarantee a desired time slot

in the new deal? So this is what I think most people kind of miss the fundamental issues with

Notre Dame joining a conference in football. It's not really about time slot or television,

although Notre Dame basically has its own television network in NBC right now. So that's pretty

good. But NBC may get into the business of televising another con. What if the NBC got a piece

of the Big Ten's rights in the next go-round? Like, that's not going to bother Notre Dame because then it's either going to have a great lead-in

from a big 10.

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