Today's episode on a Friday. We have Tommy Reese. We're going to go inside the plane, the

decision to stay at South Bend and not go to LSU and John Hollinger. He had a really

good piece on previewing free agency. Let's just do it really, really early and a little

bit on OKC and what their actual plan is. We have a statement in essay and then life advice.

Enjoy. He is still the offensive coordinator of the fighting Irish from Notre Dame. It's

Tommy Reese really fired up to have him on this podcast. You're staying with Notre Dame.

There was all sorts of stuff. We'll try to figure it out, figure out if there was ever a

chance you were going to leave. But did you decide to stay at Notre Dame and not go with Brian

Kelly because he benched you back in 2012?

Yeah, the not playing in the Bama game from 12. That was the final straw. Give me the timeline.

Give me the timeline of when you knew Brian was going to LSU where you were at with it and

then just let's work from there.

Yeah, I think the wild thing was like I was with coach. We played Stanford, Saturday night,

after Thanksgiving. I was with him that night for a while and then all day Sunday. So he

had, there was a group that plays, we always play the last game on the West Coast. We stay

out there to recruit because that's when their crew appeared. So usually that Sunday coach

will play golf. They'll bring one or two staff members with him. I got to call this

year. They'll play. So we played San Francisco golf club, which was awesome. And it was like

him, some of his buddies, some Notre Dame people that are members there and me. So we go.

I was in his group. I was with him from nine o'clock in the morning until 11 o'clock

in the night at that Sunday. There wasn't a word about it. There were some rumblings,

my agent texted me saying, hey, if you heard anything, I'm like, I've been with them all

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