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00:00All right, so I just want to start by saying what a gift it's been for me personally all season long
00:07Having made a new friend in Terry about I just think the guy is just a fantastic
00:14Person and a legendary coach obviously, but I had so much fun
00:19Talking college football with this guy every single week throughout the college football season
00:22I just want him to know how much I care about him and how much I enjoy him
00:26I loved him on the show
00:28I thought he was fantastic and it really means a lot to me that he spent the entire season was because I made a new
00:34friend and I think very highly of you coach and I've really
00:38Found it a special time for me every week to be able to have you on the show and it means a lot to me
00:43And I just thank you very much. I think you're a terrific person
00:47Well, I do appreciate that. It's always great to talk college football and not just NFL but college football
00:54Which we've enjoyed doing and it's come down to a pretty good game
00:59Between two historic teams from a national college football perspective. These teams are about as historic as they come
01:06I gotta tell you as you know, you're going big onions tonight
01:12To win the game outright
01:14They're getting nine, but I think they can win the game
01:18I believed in the commanders that they could win on Friday. I said they would win
01:23I said they would play the Eagles in the NFC title game. Both of those things came to fruition
01:28I think Notre Dame can win this game
01:31Despite the fact that frankly no one on the face of the earth thinks they have a shot and you know
01:37I said to my son today coach. I said if they have no shot
01:40Why isn't the spread 16 or 18 points because they get talked about like they're dog food Notre Dame
01:47Let me tell you what Notre Dame's got it's not analytical and you can't statistically look at it
01:52They have they have chemistry that after they lost in Northern, Illinois, and I watched that coach
01:59React to his players and the players react to him. They've had something special and very few times. Do you get that?
02:05They've got a team that finds a way to win now. I've got them covered and not I've got them with the points
02:12I haven't gone as far as you have but it wouldn't shock me because of the chemistry they have
02:17The rapport they have and that's the fact that they find a way to win. They've got a quarterback distance
02:22He knows how to win if they need three yards. He gets three yards for a first down
02:26He knows when to tuck it and get the first down. He won't kill you with his passing yardage
02:30He won't kill you with his total rushing yardage every yard. He makes that will be valuable. So I can see where
02:36Notre Dame has a way to win the football game. I just can't pull away from the town turnovers big plays will be a factor
02:43They've got to get a couple of things like that. Both defenses are so good. You can't expect an over
02:49I don't think in this game goes both we're talking about the number one scoring defense and the number two scoring defense and then we're
02:55Talking about no, they've got the number one pass defense in the country. So I don't see a lot of scoring
03:01But I do see Notre Dame having a chance to pull it off just because what they've done with their season
03:06Coach I saw Michigan punch Ohio State in the Adams Apple with a sucker
03:12Haymaker and beat him in Columbus
03:15I saw Texas sit at the one-yard line with first and goal at a tie game
03:20Blow the game with bad play calling by Sarkeesian and his OC without a doubt going sideways
03:26Pitching the ball back and running sideways. I thought they blew the game. So I've seen Ohio State in trouble twice
03:34I never thought they were in trouble against Oregon in Eugene
03:38I thought they blew the game with bad clock management by Howard
03:42But I have seen them make mistakes and get beat so
03:47Why am I to think that they're so awesome and that literally everyone in the country that matters that does TV?
03:54Nationally or otherwise, I mean is there a soul on the side of the earth that isn't picking Ohio State to run away with this
04:02Game, I don't understand it. You would think that
04:06Ohio State was playing the Little Sisters of the poor
04:08Yeah
04:10Now, I mean that's what you look at the DDO scoring defense is probably the most important stat that you can have with a football
04:17Team and they're both at the very top which means the game's got a great chance to be closed and turn the ball
04:23Don't turn it over. Don't give up a big play and let me go back that their coach has a special report
04:28It's almost like he's so young. He's naive. He doesn't stand on the sideline like he's fearful. Everything bad is gonna happen
04:35I think the players respond to him that way and that's why I don't think you can be
04:39Shocked if Notre Dame does go out there and play and win the football game
04:43I still go with you know talent being the most important thing
04:47There is my dad said used to say I can win a championship if I have great leadership and I don't have injuries
04:53It's the one thing Notre Dame has not been able to control. They've lost about five key players. That's why I'm saying they're there. They're
05:01Strength is their synergy their chemistry
05:04That's the way they pull together and believe they can win something happened at Northern, Illinois
05:09to Notre Dame
05:10That has changed the way they are and by the time I watch the way they they thump, Georgia
05:15Now George is not as good as they were in their championship years
05:17But that game wasn't close, you know, and a lot of people are picking Georgia to be in this championship game
05:22So I think you're hey, I think you got plenty of argument
05:26Still think if you look at most of the people and reason the lines out there
05:30You've got a high state still with more talent in almost every position
05:35From wide receiver to running back to defense and you've got to go with an intangible
05:40What's your that gut feeling that visceral feeling not cerebral?
05:45But the visceral feeling these son of a guns are going to find a way to win
05:48So, you know, I understand what you're saying. I don't agree that
05:52their defense is
05:54Better. I think their defense is more
05:59NFL physical in terms of their hitting they are so fast and the way they hit reminds me of NFL hitting
06:07On the outside the edges the corners the safeties
06:10They hit like they're in the NFL
06:13But I think Notre Dame's defense is every bit as good as Ohio State without question now
06:20Let me ask you this so you go into the locker room and you've got a team that's 11 and 1 that has won every
06:27Game since the Northern Illinois game you're playing for a national championship. No one thinks you can win the game
06:33What do you say to them before this game as they go out on the field because I believe
06:39That they believe I believe that the Irish believe that they're going out tonight to win
06:46If you're not going out to win, then why even make the trip at all?
06:50Yeah, well, then I think you the defensively you hit that point
06:55There is no difference between these between these two deep
06:58Defenses in there the way they played all year and that evens things up
07:02But if I'm the head coach and I look at massive men
07:04Let's just go do what we've been doing the last 11 weeks
07:07You know as well as I do you can beat this football team not by something magical
07:12Not by something happened out of the out of the ordinary go out and play your game go after kick their ass
07:18Play your game and you go out there and win this guy
07:21I think you talk with complete confidence like everybody there knows exactly what they're capable of doing
07:27Do you think Riley Leonard will screw this game up?
07:32No, he's I think he's one of the reasons they win
07:35He won't throw for a lot and he's not fast enough to run for a lot of yardage
07:39But as I've seen two or three games that I've studied them if he needs three yards to get a first down
07:44He'll get three and a half if he needs to scramble on second down instead of waiting for a second receiver to get open
07:51He'll get it down to a third and one and two
07:53He makes great decisions and I think it's his decision-making
07:57Not as I'm not talking about NFL talent or the strongest arm or the fastest legs. He's got it
08:03Whatever it is. He's got it
08:05He'll make the plays to keep their drives going make first downs and to me
08:10He's always in control of himself and what he needs to do on every play
08:14Do you think they should have played this game on Friday night and not on Monday night so long?
08:21since they played the Thursday and
08:25Well, you know what it is what it is not I think both coaches would agree with you
08:29You don't want to sit around after after getting here
08:32you don't want to sit around as long as they've sat around because so many things can happen and
08:37Also, you just lose that in both of them coming off big wins a couple of big wins and you sit and things can happen
08:44You can lose that mo that momentum you can lose that that feeling and so no
08:48I think I wish they would have played it on Friday
08:50But the fact is whatever affects one team has all the opportunity to affect the other team
08:56Coach, I certainly pray to God that I get to do this again with you next year during the college football season
09:02I can't thank you enough. I've had a blast. I think the world of you. I'd love to do it with you again
09:08You're the best enjoy the game tonight and have a fantastic
09:11Happy and healthy 25 my pal