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Another edition of the Late Kick Extra podcast.

I am Josh Pate.

It is wall-to-wall college football

mailbag. We do this thing all year round. There is no offseason here. And it is a very, very

widely varied mailbag this morning slash afternoon, wherever you're listening. We're diving right into

this thing. I waste no time. All I ask is make sure you're subscribed to this thing. A lot of

you may think you are because you listen to every show. Make sure you're subscribed because a lot of

you will find, oh, I'm not subbed. At which point you can subscribe and all as well. Listen to this first

question I got this morning as we're recording. This is from Stony Brook, New York. What is a story

or an event in the past that you wish late kick was around for so you could cover it?

Friends, I've got several.

Mante Tao?

That whole thing that popped up, and I don't know if many of you remember this, you remember the story,

or if you're younger, you remember hearing about the story. But it's not just that Mante Tao got catfished. It's not just that the fake girlfriend thing happened. Which I don't really joke about it. It just happened, though. It was like right at the center of college football. But Notre Dame was at the center of college football that year. Because they were in route to playing for a national championship. And I know that some of your warped college football

history books that teaches Notre Dame hasn't done anything since the latter portions of the

Reagan administration. Well, that's not always true, guys. You don't have to have literally won a title

to have had very, very

noteworthy years. This was 2012. This was a little more than a decade ago. And I cannot imagine

what the world would be like if Notre Dame was in the process of going to play for a national

title, then all of a sudden that news drops on you. I can imagine it because I lived through it,

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