Notre Dame Daily Mailbag - Part II
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🗓️ 20 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | from D. Smith, 16, what are your thoughts on the news coming out with Carson Beck not attending classes for two years and yet being able to play? |
| 0:25.9 | That's false. I know people are saying that. That's flat out 100% false. He didn't say I haven't been to classes for two years. His comment was clunky, but they were asking about going to classes. He's like graduated two years ago, you know. He didn't say I hadn't been going to class for two years because he legally can. I mean, he's been in classes. Now, he's probably taking online classes. He's probably not sitting in on a master's class. It's probably not the same kind of workload, but he's taking classes. I mean, let's not forget Matt Leiner was taking like what piano and ballroom dancing is last year at USC. Why? Because he's already graduated. And so he's just taking the classes he needs to be able to play his final year at USC. At no point in time did Carson Beck said he has not attended classes for two years. That's not what he said. That's what people said he said. |
| 1:16.1 | But if you go back and listen to the quote, that's not what he said. And this is a much ado about nothing. It was said in a kind of a dumb way, but what moron reporter asks him about classes? Dude's a |
| 1:23.1 | freaking 60 year senior. Why would he be taking classes in the spring? |
| 1:28.4 | In the spring? |
| 1:29.6 | Do you not know how this works? |
| 1:30.7 | Are you that stupid? |
| 1:32.1 | Are you that bad at your job? |
| 1:33.6 | Well, you and I found out that there actually are a lot of people that bad at their job in this business. |
| 1:37.8 | Why would a six year senior who graduated two years ago, who after this game is going to get rid of the NFL, |
| 1:44.9 | be taking spring classes? How stupid of a question was that? Did he answer well? No. |
| 1:54.0 | And look, I am no Miami defender, but in no way shape, form or fashion, has he been not |
| 1:59.3 | taking classes for two years? And that's not what he said. |
| 2:02.7 | It's what you're responding to what somebody said he said. Because he didn't say that. |
| 2:08.6 | Yeah. Yeah. I also chair a lot of my thoughts, too, about like classes with portal guys. Like, |
| 2:15.6 | sometimes you're at the mercy of what the school accepts. Like mean look i'll be real about i mean right Riley Leonard went to |
| 2:22.3 | Notre Dame and then became a theater major because some of his credits didn't transfer over and |
| 2:26.3 | I hate to break it to people but he's not going to go on Broadway once he's done playing football |
| 2:30.3 | so sometimes it's just you're at the mercy of whatever. So I don't get involved |
| 2:36.6 | into those conversations too much. Super chat from Tyler Evans. Appreciate you, man. Is it true |
| 2:42.4 | that Jim Phillips let Miami keep all the revenue from the playoffs instead of dispersing it to |
| 2:46.4 | the ACC? Well, yes and no. Jim Phillips didn't just unilaterally decide that. It was part of the negotiations to end the lawsuit with Florida State and Clemson, is that success was going to create greater revenue for the teams that have success. And part of it was if you go to the |
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