trench Stories from the Naval Academy, a tribute to Coach Spencer
Guests: August Roitsch & Dr. J. Marshall Green III (Navy offensive linemen under Paul Johnson)
It's Notre Dame vs. Navy week, and GolfDoc sits down with two men who lived in the trenches for the Naval Academy: center August Roitsch (#74, USNA '05), a former Navy lieutenant, and right tackle Dr. J. Marshall Green III (#64). A tribute to Navy offensive line coach Todd Spencer, plus the 1927 Notre Dame-Navy game and Admiral Nimitz, Navy 46, Notre Dame 44 in triple overtime in 2007, the Emerald Bowl, Army-Navy in the snow, Navy at the White House, the GolfDoc on the Lisfranc injury, and Marshall's path to surgery and Walter Reed.
Notre Dame is on its bye week and Navy is next on Halloween, so GolfDoc hears from the other side of the Service Academy family. Otto Leone, Army quarterback (one-for-one, 64 yards vs. Temple), Ranger School grad and Notre Dame MBA, and John Robb, Army linebacker, 1990 co-captain and founder of The Stone Creek Group in Denver, cover calculus class before kickoff at Michie Stadium, plebe boxing, why Army–Navy is unlike any rivalry, a Desert Storm senior year, Champions Golf Club and Jackie Burke, the West Point network, and the advice they'd give a recruit choosing between NIL money and West Point.
Dedicated to Dr. Tom Parr, Joannie Parr and Bill York, who brought this episode together. Go Army. Go Irish.
Chapters
0:00 Welcome: Navy week & two West Point '91 grads
1:09 John Robb: a Houston kid who'd never heard of West Point
3:33 Otto Leone: sixth-string QB gets his shot vs. Temple
6:12 A perfect passer rating & running the wishbone
Featuring: GOLFDOC Michael Maier, M.D., live from the 30th Notre Dame Orthopaedic Society weekend
GOLFDOC takes you back to campus for the Notre Dame Orthopaedic Society 2026 weekend: highlights from the conference speakers, a Friday night out with friends near campus, and a game-day tailgate in the leather helmet.
GOLFDOC joins Brandon Varon and his University of Houston pre-health organization to tell the real story of getting into medicine: two med school rejections, bartending at Pappadeaux, a young family, and a comeback through UT Southwestern, a surprise Duke orthopedic match and practice in Sugar Land. Plus his time-management system, why ankle fractures can't wait, the complications that keep surgeons up at night, and how faith shapes his practice.
Two Notre Dame premed classmates pick up a conversation that started in the back of a biology lecture hall 30+ years ago. A.J. talks surviving organic chemistry, caring for Irish athletes as a hand surgeon, boxer's and scaphoid fractures, jersey finger vs. mallet finger, and where orthopedic innovation is headed.
Michigan State–Notre Dame week. A Notre Dame kid who became a Spartan takes us inside the 2005 44–41 overtime classic in South Bend, the walk-off check at the line, the infamous flag plant, teammates Charles Rogers and Drew Stanton, and life after football.
From Zahm Hall vs. Keenan Hall to 5,000+ knee replacements. Chip shares the 1993 “Game of the Century,” raising a Double Domer family, choosing his father over an AAOS podium, Lou Holtz’s rules for life, and the “quiet knee” recovery protocol.
Texas vs. Ohio State week with two friends from the Duke orthopedic family: college football memories, golf rounds worth retelling, football injuries, mentorship and the legacy of Dr. James Urbaniak — plus predictions.
An orthopedic traumatologist and former Rice Owl talks college football, orthopedic injuries, friendship and golf — and the Platte River Rumble — ahead of Rice at Notre Dame in South Bend.
The debut. Tevon Coney shares his Notre Dame journey, the shoulder injury and surgery that changed his career, his road through rehab, and how football shaped his life in business. Plus the GolfDoc origin story and the first Fairway Finder, GOLFDOC Special and Golden Domer picks.
Both 5-1: GolfDoc and pre-med co-host Brandon Varon break down Houston's controversial no-review loss at Texas Tech, Notre Dame–BYU's unreviewed final plays, Big 12 vs. SEC depth, UH's new medical school, and bold 2027 predictions.
Texas Longhorn superfan Zach Miller on four years at UT, game-day memories and the engineering job waiting in Tucson. Recorded at Blackhawk Country Club.
