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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part II

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Football, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Sports, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish!

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0:00.0

Coach Bent 574 with a two-parter, who is the first person from a rival team that you found it hard to root against once you found out about strictly because of their good deeds.

0:29.3

As a 40-year-old for me, it was work done.

0:32.7

I truly hated Florida State, guys even in the NFL, but he made it hard.

0:38.5

Are there any current guys that you feel the same way about? Wark's a great one. I mean, he, when you, when you hear

0:44.9

his story and what he had to overcome to find the success he had, I think his mom was killed, right?

0:50.0

Wasn't she, I think a sheriff and she got, she got killed, I think in the line of duty,

0:54.7

if I remember correctly.

0:56.7

And what he had to do and then how he has, like, it's not even just like raising money for a charity.

1:03.2

Like the things they do are life changing.

1:06.0

They build homes for people.

1:08.1

Like that is a big thing.

1:10.7

And when you hear people, anytime I hear about someone

1:13.5

using their fame and their fortune and their gifts that God gave them to better other people

1:20.8

around them, especially people they don't know, how can you not respect the heck out of that person? So,wick Dunn is definitely one of those for me. I'd have to sit and think more about this coach, but there's been several guys over the years that you find out that are, you know, wow, that's like Dionne Sanders. I disliked him for a long, long time. And there's still a lot of things about Dionne Sanders that just kind annoy me. It's like, dude, you don't have to be that way. But then you hear from people about how involved he is in the community. And I had an experience with Dion Sanders when I was in college where I was working the art monks football camp. And I was still in college. And Dion, I believe at the time, was playing for the Redskins. And all the players, all the kids were like super excited to meet Dion and all these

2:07.0

type of things. And the younger kids had to go to the camp before he got there. He was late. And a lot of

2:15.0

famous people will get there and they'll just kind of go do their thing, sign their thing, and then be out.

2:21.0

And he came back and stayed for hours and waited on the younger kids to get back.

2:27.0

And just to be around him and you're just like, you could just see how he interacted, how he just, this is a guy that came up hard.

2:33.8

If you know where Dion's from, it's guy that came up hard if you know where dion's

2:34.9

from it's like he came up hard but to see like his joy in the joy of how other young people were

2:42.7

reacting to him it wasn't like look at me and all these people worship me it was like he got joy

2:49.2

out of the joy that others were getting and meeting him that meant something to me like. Like, and I know prime time and noise people, but like, you know what? I can live with that if this is also what he's doing in the community. And you've heard things about, I've heard a lot of stories about, you know, how many young people he's taken under his wing. Some of them are like Travis Hunter, but there's

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