USC Is A Season Defining Moment For Notre Dame

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00:03 The opposite too, and that's the thing that you're saying here and

00:07 that we're discussing here is it's not just about, if they lose this game,

00:10 they're screwed and then leave the conversation there.

00:13 The conversation is also you went through a brutal three weeks.

00:16 The only way you can win this game, in my opinion, it's not about,

00:20 USC so much better than you and all that.

00:23 No, that's not what we're talking about.

00:24 What we're saying is mentally right now,

00:26 Notre Dame look like a broken team against against Louisville.

00:30 If you're gonna beat USA, you've got to bounce back from that, right?

00:34 And so if they win this game, it will be because they bounce back from that.

00:38 It'll show that there's a level of mental toughness.

00:41 There's a level of physical toughness, resolve, pride.

00:45 There's all these things that you have that you can tap into when you're tired,

00:50 when you're banged up, when you've been on a long grueling stretch and

00:53 you're mentally worn down, that you have something deep inside that you can

00:57 tap into that shows that you're champions.

01:00 And if you don't do that, then honestly,

01:04 you get to the point now where I've always been against

01:08 the notion of just play the younger guys.

01:12 >> Right. >> But

01:13 if you get to the point where you don't show up for this game,

01:16 then it's like you need to change your culture.

01:18 The best way to change your culture is the guys that you brought into

01:20 the program.

01:22 >> Right.