Postgame Reaction
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Athletic
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Pete and Matt are at Cardinal Stadium in Louisville and have instant reaction to Notre Dame's 35-17 win. Was Ian Book's performance cause for concern? Why was this a game when no one expected it to be? Georgia week is approaching quickly, what do the Irish need to do to improve?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Pete Sampson, joined by Matt Fortuna in a nondescript suite at the top Cardinal Stadium. |
| 0:31.4 | No longer Papa John's Stadium. |
| 0:32.6 | I think it was Papa John's suite, right? |
| 0:33.9 | They probably took his name off this and let us use it. |
| 0:36.1 | There was no Papa John's pizza here at all. Following Notre Dame's 3517 win over Louisville, it was a strange game. |
| 0:46.1 | It was strange how it started. It was strange how it unfolded. It was a little bit weird |
| 0:50.0 | after the fact as well. Matt, I know this podcast is called the Shamrock. However, you had a really |
| 0:57.6 | interesting access point into Louisville on Saturday and, you know, coming into the game as well. |
| 1:02.8 | Like, what was sort of the vibe around Louisville? Because I think the sense I got walking around |
| 1:08.9 | that Louisville was surprised by Louisville, in addition to Notre Dame, also being surprised by Louisville. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, it's been a long time since the players and the fans and the community of Louisville have had a reason to really cheer. |
| 1:20.6 | And I think for this program to take a preseason top 10 team, I'm not going to call an air name a top actual top 10 team after what I |
| 1:28.2 | just saw on the field tonight. But for Louisville to take that game really into the fourth quarter |
| 1:33.5 | and show the kind of fight they did. And, you know, I guess they covered the spread that, but they |
| 1:39.2 | played admirably. I just think it shows a great, I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but, you know, there's a lot to be encouraged by. |
| 1:49.0 | I mean, Scott Satterfield had said after the game, you know, I don't believe in moral victories, but I'm damn proud of these guys. |
| 1:54.0 | We've talked every day for eight months about family, about culture change, about this, about that, and you never really know what's real about that until you get punched in the |
| 2:02.4 | mouth until the lights come on and until you're ultimately judged on one of your 12, |
| 2:06.2 | 12 game days. |
| 2:06.9 | And, you know, for Louisville to not only absorb that first drive against their name, |
| 2:11.5 | but play them almost to a draw until the very end of the first half and, |
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