{"id":374007,"date":"2024-03-08T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=374007"},"modified":"2024-03-08T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:02:04","slug":"its-modern-day-confusion-for-pat-mcafee-over-mater-deis-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=374007","title":{"rendered":"It's modern day confusion for Pat McAfee over Mater Dei's name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones and Pat McAfee couldn’t figure out how to pronounce Mater Dei, a football powerhouse program in California. The confusion happened on a recent episode of the Pat McAfee Show on ESPN.<\/p>\n

Insert a joke here about the value of a West Virginia education (McAfee and Jones are former stars at West Virginia).<\/p>\n

(All joking aside, West Virginia is a very good university<\/a> and is among the best in offering graduate degrees online as well as having renowned programs in engineering and nursing)<\/p>\n

The moment on the Pat McAfee Show was a modern day ‘Who’s on first?’ You’ll get the pun in a moment.<\/p>\n

But Jones and McAfee’s discussion about Mater Dei (Santa Ana, California) led to more confusion than answers. The confusion centered on how to pronounce the prep football program’s name.<\/p>\n

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A post shared by Pat McAfee (@patmcafeeshow)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mater Dei finished third in the nation in the final USA TODAY High School Sports Super 25<\/a> and is tied for the most Super 25 championships all-time<\/a> with De La Salle (Concord, Calif.)<\/p>\n

They were the high school home after all of Bryce Young and Matt Leinart among others.<\/p>\n

The program wins, a lot, and is always loaded with top recruits. In the class of 2025 for instance, four-star defensive back Daryus Dixson<\/a> and four-star wide receiver Marcus Harris<\/a> are among the stars on this year’s Mater Dei team.<\/p>\n

Mater Dei finished last season 13-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Confusion reigns on the Pat McAfee Show over how to pronounce Mater Dei.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374009,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374007\/revisions\/374009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}