Spring Game Cancelled & Fall Point Spreads Released
The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish
The Athletic
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Pete Sampson & Matt Fortuna discuss Notre Dame's decision to cancel spring practice & the Blue-Gold Game due to the novel coronavirus. The NCAA has also suspended spring recruiting until April 15th at the earlies. How does this impact the program, especially new OC Tommy Rees? Plus, fall point spreads have been released. How does Notre Dame stack up against Clemson, Arkansas & Wisconsin?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock. I'm Pete Sampson. He's Matt Fortuna. I'm in South Bend, where there's nothing going on. The University closed this week. No spring practice, no spring game, no spring recruiting. We're going to talk about that. Matt, you're in Chicago. How's it going? Kind of a loaded question. You can take that anywhere you want. Yeah, no kidding. It's going. Wife working from home, enjoying what I get to enjoy it to do all the time. |
| 0:39.0 | So we had to schedule office hours so that I could record this podcast, which was a hurdle that I previously not had. |
| 0:46.6 | But, you know, we're fine. |
| 0:48.4 | I mean, at least I think we're fine. |
| 0:49.8 | I don't of us really know anything, right? |
| 0:51.1 | But we're hanging in there. |
| 0:52.2 | And, you know, just uh like you as far as |
| 0:55.8 | work goes just trying to uh find some fun i don't know if that's an appropriate word but light |
| 1:01.9 | content and stuff that i think um will keep both ourselves and our readers occupied and entertain |
| 1:08.1 | until uh this passes whatever that may be yeah my kids are home from school for the next four weeks. |
| 1:14.8 | My wife's working from home now, too. |
| 1:16.9 | It's, I think they're downstairs watching Emily Arrow, which you will get into probably |
| 1:22.6 | in a couple years when your daughter gets a little bit older. |
| 1:24.6 | So any of our listeners who have, you know, kind of kindergarten age, they're probably |
| 1:28.3 | know all about Emily Arrow. |
| 1:30.3 | I've got a Nintendo Switch waiting to be opened and Mario Kart 8, so plenty of action later. |
| 1:35.8 | I've got, I put out the social distancing plan of watching every Marvel movie. |
| 1:41.5 | I've only gotten three movies into it. |
| 1:44.8 | And a surprising large amount of feedback from people on Twitter about how important the order was on that. |
| 1:52.2 | I just figured that I would watch Endgame last. |
| 1:55.1 | Other than that, it didn't seem that important. |
| 1:57.3 | But apparently, there is a way to do that. |
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