It is our number two of the show.

Buttermayers Weekday Sportsbeat with Irish Breakdown.com.

We are on track for an on-time start for the South Bend Cubs.

Tonight, we will be giving way in about 35 minutes or so.

We head over to Four Winds Field with Brendan King and Tyler Reddy for the call of

tonight's game.

Vince, it's rapid fire time. I think we've got

plenty of plenty of content here for the next however long we end up going. This has been a big

media week for Marcus Freeman.

The Notre Dame coach is a featured guest on two national podcasts this week,

and he is also featured in Esquire magazine.

We had some of the cuts from the Bustin' With the Boys podcast yesterday, and I've got another one today.

Taylor LeWan asked Freeman the age

old question.

Is another game entered a conference and has there been a conversation about that?

Listen. That is a whole kid. That's a whole that's why having we? Here's why I bring it up. One, it's great question, but two, the haters, one of their big remarks about not making the playoffs, like, well, if you guys were in a conference, X, Y and Z would happen. You'd have the opportunity because you'd be in a powerful conference. There's advantages to be in the conference and there's advantages not being in the conference. an accomplice lot of positive things that trust me that nobody was complaining about when we made the playoffs a year before.

The independence, we look at it as a positive.

Listen, we lost two games and didn't make playoffs.

If our administration ever feels like we are truly at a competitive disadvantage by not being in a conference,

I'm sure that we'll join a conference, but we're just, you shouldn't lost the games.

Simple as that.

Okay, Vince, rate the answer on a scale of one to ten.

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