Trista Krick

To me, part of this whole story is

How wide open is your personal life if you're a public figure as relates to Jaden Ivey's mom?

Tristan, if you're covering a Notre Dame game and in the postgame interview, are you entitled to ask Jaden Ivey's mom about what he's saying and that situation?

Or do you consider that to be off limits?

No, as a journalist, I think they're both grown people.

OK, and it's newsworthy for all of the reasons you say.

And so I think in a postgame news conference, it's OK to tread very carefully in asking the mom.

How are you dealing with why Jaden's in the news right now?

Now, if you're dealing, I'm very curious how Charlie Woods is dealing with his dad's latest problem.

I'm not sure if I would ask Charlie Woods that because he's still a teenager, I think.

So some of it depends on age and the level of public confidence.

I think it's to ask the question.

Now, the coach is very entitled to answer the question as a mom might and say, this is a family matter.

They're intertwined, though, those two things.

They're intertwined.

You're asking the mom, the coach, that question because of her son and because of her own locker room.

They're intertwined.

And that makes it doubly newsworthy, in my opinion.

I do, yeah.

One of the great characters in the history of television, in my humble opinion.