Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock. I'm Pete Sampson, joined, as always, by Matt Mourtune. And today's special guest. He's the co-host of my second favorite podcast, Ty Hildenbrand,

the solid verbal. Ty, Notre Dame fan, Penn State, grad. So you're checking a couple

significant boxes here. My favorite podcast is men and blazers and as you know

that's a highly bald centric podcast uh you are you are not so that that's the only box that

you're missing here for us but thanks for taking some time for us talk a little Notre Dame

talk a little podcasting um how are you doing good thanks thanks guys thanks for having me on i'm doing well i we were talk a little podcasting. How are you doing? Good. Thanks, guys. Thanks for having me on.

I'm doing well. We were talking a little bit before we hit record.

It's very snowy here at the moment, and I believe there as well.

So another box that is checked for being part of the Shamrock.

Yeah, welcome early enrollees at Notre Dame this week, especially Tyler Buckner from

lovely La Jolla, California, coming into nine inches of snow in South Bend.

It's your new reality.

Pete had to get his kids to school.

I had to get to Northwestern Rutgers basketball game Sunday night,

driving out of snow banks in front of my garage. You got to say goodbye to Jim Phillips and see if you can get them to get Notre Dame to join the ACC full-time as part of his first day on the job,

which is today, February 1st. But I had no luck. I did get there in one piece, though. So

we're able to record this podcast and pick Ty's brain a little bit.

So I got to admit here, I probably have more questions for you guys than you have for me.

So if I interject with some of my own, please forgive me. I wanted to get your inside take on this acc thing because i know one of the

questions that's come up continuously throughout the season when we get emails when we read

stuff from the inbox like people want to know how what what's up with this ACC thing?

What is the eventual output of this?

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