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You're about to enter your five.

I mean, you knew, I guess you had some kind of idea.

All right, here's what I think this whole thing's going to be like five years from now.

Well, now we're five years from then.

So how comparable is it to what you thought it may be like?

Probably.

There's some similarities, but a lot different than you would imagine. You never really understand. You always have this envision of what it's like to do something else, what it's like

to be a coordinator, what it's like to be a headcoat, what it's like to be Mary, what it's like to be a

father. And then you get into that phase and you realize there's a lot more to it than you think.

But it's been one of the greatest joys in my life.

And it's because of the people, the players, the people you get to work with every day, this university that makes it special.

But it's a lot different than you. You probably thought on the front end.

I think most people, when they undertake a really high profile job,

feel some level of imposter syndrome.

Now, some people lie about it and say they don't feel it.

And then other people are more honest than say they do.

I know I felt it before, getting to do like what I love to do for a living

when you became a head coach, like early on, wherever moment you're driving home, you're just

looking in the rearview mirror. There are mornings in the bathroom. You're saying, man, am I really

ready for this? Like, I'm the head coach at Notre Dame. There's still moments now. So I spoke in the past sense. That laugh and and one I go hang I'm the head coach at

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