Notre Dame Needs A Fast Start vs Pitt
Notre Dame Needs A Fast Start vs Pitt
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00:03 >> Ryan, there are so many aspects to why starting fast is important in this game.
00:07 Some of them practical to the pit game, some of them more about Notre Dame,
00:11 like you just mentioned.
00:12 A lot of what you were just talking about is more like big picture,
00:16 more just mental, more emotional as opposed to the strategic reasons why
00:21 it matters to pit, but that's the biggest thing about this game for me, Ryan.
00:25 It's not really about pit, it's about Notre Dame.
00:29 >> It is. >> And where's your head at?
00:32 Like you said, feeling good.
00:33 Well, feeling good can go one of two ways.
00:36 One is I'm feeling pretty good about myself and pit's not any good and
00:40 we're Notre Dame and we're just gonna come in and roll the balls out and
00:43 they're gonna lay over and die.
00:44 And that's the wrong kind of feeling good.
00:47 The other kind of feeling good is, hey, I like this feeling of blowing teams out.
00:52 And we just showed how good we are.
00:54 We're not the team that looked like that against Louisville.
00:56 We're not the team that struggled to beat Duke.
00:59 We're this team.
01:00 We're this team that can go out and dominate people.
01:03 That's the other way of feeling good.
01:05 And that's where momentum gets built, Ryan, to your point.
01:08 Cuz if you come out and just slug out an ugly win over pit, yeah, it's good.
01:12 It's a win.
01:13 I mean, you're seven and two, that's fine, whatever.
01:15 But I'm not gonna feel good about that, right?
01:17 Because all the confidence you built during that week of beating USC in
01:21 the bye week can be eliminated with that kind of game.
01:24 I wanna see this team come out fired up.
01:26 Now practice.
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