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Give it a try at midmobile.com/switch. $45 up front for three months plus taxes and fees, promoting for new customers for limited time. Unlimited more than 40 gigabytes per month. All turns at midmobile.com Jacob Watson getting married tomorrow, fellas. Congratulations, man. First of all, congratulations, Jacob. Happy for you, man. Welcome to the club. You're awesome. And welcome to the club. We're not those guys. They're like, oh, you know, married. So I love being married. I have a great life. You know, fallen chain. Yeah. No, man. Heck no fight. If I said that about my wife, she's a tie. And she would hit me with that ball and chain. So I'm, no, I'm just joking. I can't. Hey, listen, I can't wait to my kids leave. So it's just me and my wife. Yes. Okay. Yeah. I'm sure you missed that. Like we're very blessed. Well, we're not blessed because we both want children and we haven't been blessed with it, but from just a time together. Yeah. Yes. It's, you know, we can do that. You can. I enjoy being around my wife. So welcome to the club, man. And I hope that you're excited and ready to go. And we're very, very happy for you guys. Absolutely. For sure. Now, Vince, on to his question. Yes. Are there any returning seniors that didn't have great years in the past, making any strides this year really hope Colsey reaches his potential right now. Colsey's working with the third and fourth team. So I don't see that one happening right now. Unless something changes between now and fall camp. Well, Jayden Thomas did not have a very good year last year because of injuries. And I think he'll be better this year than he was last year. If as long as he can say healthy, that's going to be the big thing. Sure. Seniors. Well, I'm hoping that's true of one of the guards. Okay. I'm trying to think Jason. Oh, yeah. He was just kind of a role player. I think he's making big strides. I mean, a lot of the other seniors that are playing are guys that are already pretty good. Yeah. You know, I mean, Jack Kaiser, Howard Cross, Riley Mills. Well, here's one. I hope, I hope Jordan Pitoho, I hope is in that conversation as to. Okay. We haven't seen it yet because we haven't seen enough practice. Right. And that'd be able to say that. And he, you know, he's, he's like a super senior. He's been around forever. You know what I mean? As far as like the actual true fourth year senior guys, I think you kind of nailed it. That kind of the guards. Yeah. The guards are known. Yeah. The big one. Yeah. For sure. Look, there's a bunch of graduate seniors. And then there's a bunch of super seniors who are here, you know, for their 60 year. And some of the other seniors like Mitchell Levens was pretty good last year. I mean, right. So he had a great year. I mean, at least when he was healthy, I'm trying to think of who else might be in that conversation. I mean, but most of the guys that get asked back for a fifth year or a sixth year are guys that contributed. Right. And are going to contribute again. This is rare. You're right. It's rare that a guy comes back and right. Right. Chief Brody. Why did Notre Dame not run prevent defense in the big house under the lights 2011? I mean, look, you could have run prevent all you want. Number one, there was too much time left to run prevent. Number one. Here's the thought. I mean, I'm going to cover Jeremy gallon. You know, turn a guy loose. You know what I mean? Like that's the plan for a mobile quarterback. That would have been good too. I mean, just that last drive. Yeah. I mean, that was all about. Jeremiah gallon ran up of white fade and post snap switch and they just turned them loose. It's blown coverage. Simple as that. I don't. I don't know that a pre like I've you've heard me say this for unless there's 10 seconds in the clock or you're up or you're up to scores. I don't play your defense. I don't like playing prevent. Yeah. I agree. You know, I don't think it helps. Plus, prevent gives a lot of room to the Nard Robinson to just take off run it. And that's not something you want. Right. Yeah, exactly. Tyler bang. Coach Dembrock talked about not knowing the offense's identity during his press conference. What do you think they're trying to establish based on unlimited observations of the practices? What he's always done. I mean, you want to be a balanced explosive football team. I mean, just look guys, guys, coaches use identity as a talking point in press conferences and Mike then rocks a veteran. You know, but he's also true in the standpoint. You're in practice three with these guys. You don't know who you're going to be. You're you've got position battles that you're going to raise. This is really the first time you've had Riley Leonard at full strength since he's been here at Notre Dame. Yeah. That's a massive. So there's a lot you're learning about. Sure. Let me ask you a question. You coached. I coached. Did you ever sit around, you know, you're coaching Taylor, Nick, one of your coaches meetings like guys, what's our identity? Like that. I don't feel like that conversation is ever had. Now, you know what you're good at. You know what you want to do to other teams, I think, based on who you are. But I've never had the actual conversation about what our identity is. It's a talking point. We would, but it's more of we knew what our identity was. What do we got to do? Get there. Yeah. Like that was more of a conversation because when I think of identity in the right sense, it's more of, okay, do we want to be a fast team? Do we want to be a tempo team? Do we want to be a physical team? Do we want to be a balanced team? Do we want to be, you know what I mean? Like it's those type of things and you have established this is who we want to be. You think you know who you want to be. And then it's like, hey, what do we got to do to get there? Right. But was it something where we sat at the end of every practice and it was a topic of conversation? No, unless we didn't think we were getting where we wanted to be. But it was never what's our identity was rarely a topic of conversation. And whenever it did happen, it was on one of the few bad teams that I was on. Okay. Because our head coach didn't know. He's now, he now works for PJ Fleck. It's one of the dumbest coaches I've ever been around my entire life. Just thought he knew how to create an identity, but it he didn't. He definitely did not. Hmm. Yeah. Brian Van Goghter's mustache. It's ought to be good with the fallout of wide receiver in a 25 class. And with what we expect with a more past productive offense with Denmark. Do you think Notre Dame will get the bulk of their wide receiver depth in the portal? I think it's August 2nd. And we need to actually see how the season plays out. Y'all didn't know who KK Smith was at this time, two years ago. Let's just take a deep breath and let it play out. Yeah. Okay. Could it happen that way? Sure. I mean, number one, they have two receivers committed. They're going to get another one. I know of a couple of guys, they're recruiting already. Let's see how it plays out. Okay. Let's see how it plays out. So if they don't do well. If they have to get the bulk of their guys in the portal, that means the season probably didn't go how we hope they would go. That's how I look at it. Yeah. Price picks is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over five million active members. Price picks is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports. Unlike other apps, on prize picks, it's just you against the numbers. All you do is pick more or less on two to six players' stat projections and watch the winnings roll in, baby. Get in on the daily action with your friends and become part of the prize picks community today. 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Now, if you want to ask me which of the traditional teams is going to have the best run game, I would probably go, I probably go Georgia Tech. And the reason I say that is because I think Georgia Tech presents the, the, the most dangerous. Backfield in as far as you've got a, you've got a running back. That was a thousand dollars Russian Jamal Haynes, shifty, quick guy runs their package as well. But then you've got a quarterback that can not only scramble, but he can actually do things in the run game. I think Haynes King had over 700 yards rushing last year. And then Jamal Haynes had over a thousand yards rushing last year for Georgia Tech. And so that to me, they got, they got, you know, three to four, you know, guys have played a lot on the offensive line coming back from last year. I think they got a portal guy coming in from last year. They ran the ball for 203.8 yards per game last year, Vince, and their two best rushers come back. Yeah, Jamal Haynes was at 600,000, 1,059 yards last year, 6.1 per carry, seven touchdowns. Haynes King was at 737 yards per game, or 737 yards last year, 6.1 yards per carry. So I, I'd probably go Georgia Tech. And then if you look at the national rankings, let's see where Georgia Tech was, they ranked 13th. And the only Notre Dame opponents that ranked ahead of them was army. So I think it's, so I think it's fair to say like, okay, I think they've got a shot to repeat that for now. And then I think that Georgia Tech got a running back as well in the portal that gives them a second good back. I could be wrong on that. I'm actually pulling up their commitment list now, Vince. But I thought they got another running back to add to the mix. And their head coach is an offensive line coach, Vince. Brent Key is an offensive line coach. So you know, he's going to want to run a football, right? You know, so, so yeah, I, I think that would be the team that to me gives the, is the best running team that they're going to face this year. So I'm not just getting the cop out army answer. I give that one. It's true, though. Yeah, I know it is. I think of the traditional offenses. I think it's Georgia Tech is the team that probably concerns me the most right now. Well, they got a mobile court and they're committed to it. Yeah. And they're committed to it. Right. So that's good. Jordan Panero. Are there any wide receiver recruits that our name is working on in the 25 class? Or are they waiting for the senior season to evaluate some late? It's both. It's both. There's some guys that were on their radar before that they're talking to. There's a guy that they were recruiting that was committed elsewhere that they're talking to. Just got a heads up on one of those guys today. And then, of course, they're going to keep their eye out for senior breakouts. I think it's all of it. I think when you're, when you have the kind of strategy of, hey, we missed out. We got to figure some stuff out. You have to be open to all strategies. And if you're looking to get, you know, two guys and you, you can't just have like, we're just going to do this. You know, go back on some guys you missed out on. See if you can kind of get back with them and kind of, you know, figure out what you're going to do. So I think it's, it's, it's a little bit all of it, Jordan. There are some guys that are on now that are new. There are some guys that they're on now that they're trying to flip. And then there's some guys that they're, that are out there that they maybe don't know yet, or that they're on the board, but they just want to see how the senior season goes before they make a move on them. So it's a little bit of all of it. It's a little bit of all of it. It's fair. And I like it all. Sean S. Thank you so much for the super chat. Appreciate you very much. Maybe too early. Current level of confidence Notre Dame can win week one in college station. Elko effect has me concerned. So like a one to 10 scale a one to 10. I mean, how much better of a coach do you actually think Mike Elko is than Marcus Freeman? Because he's going into game one at Texas A&M. Marcus Freeman is going into game 20. What? Something? Yeah. You know what I mean? So I'm more concerned with A&M's talent than I am with the Mike Elko effect in the opener. Now, if they were talking about game eight, nine, ten, now it's a little bit of a different story, but right. My confidence is still high. I mean, look, Notre Dame's better team. I like Notre Dame's coordinators better than I like. Like Colin Klein's a really good coordinator. Two years ago, if they'd have hired him, you know, instead of Jared Parker, I'd be thrilled. But I still think Mike Dembrock better. You know, I think, I mean, they got Jay Bateman as a coordinator. Mike Elko's going to help and make sure that they're good. But I think you've got Al Golden Marcus Freeman on the defensive side at Notre Dame. I just, you know, obviously playing on the road is not easy and the crowd will be loud and all that. And if you aren't mentally strong enough, like crowd noise only affects you. If you don't have a good plan and you're not a mentally tough football team. If you're a mentally tough football team and you have a good plan, it's not as big of a deal as people think. But, you know, A&M's traditionally has been a tougher place to play. Didn't they, like, lose to App State at home last year? So it's not like this team has a supreme confidence. It can be anybody at home. So, look, Notre Dame should win that game. It's not going to be easy. I don't think you're going to blow A&M out by any stretch. I think A&M is a good football team. I like Connor. Vince, how many, I've been talking to you about Connor Wegman for years. I like that kid. But I just think Notre Dame's got the better team. So I'm still, I'm still confident in that game. So, let's see if they have a bunch of injuries or things that happen or whatever the case may be, but yeah. That's kind of how I see it. Yeah, I'm pretty confident. Andy Milton fan with the super chat. Thank you very much. Appreciate you. What effect do you think letting assistance coach players will have quicker development or prepared for games hashtag BK looks like a tracks when walking when talking. I think he means T Rex. Oh, okay. Fair enough. What effect do you think letting assistant coach players will have? I don't think I kind of, but don't assistance always coach players like I'm very confused by the question, I guess. Yeah, I'm not. What effect do you think letting assistance coach players like is you talking about like analysts being allowed to coach players? Yeah, you're allowed to have them on the field now. I don't think so. That's probably the route. Honestly, I think if you're smart, if you're a smart football coach, what that, and it kind of plays into his where that's going to help is exactly with what we're seeing right now. Where you can send your younger players down, your guys that are, you know, your freshmen, your threes and fours, and you guys are both running your team periods, one direction, the other direction, you actually have real coaches down there working with them. You've got Trent miles. You've got guys like that down there working with them. They're getting really good coaching and a ton of reps. Now, yeah, it'd be nice if they could hear what Mike Denmark saying over here, but you can coach off film off that I would much rather a guy get those reps with the coaching from the analysts than be watching. I mean, I'm all for mental reps, but mental reps are never better than physical rarely are better than physical reps. And so I think it's that it's just having more coaches that can allow you to do more things you can have, you know, like, like we're seeing, hey, take my group of young players down there and do a seven on seven down there, as opposed to standing around watching. Our seven on seven, I think stuff like that, and is better and you don't have two GAs down there. You've got maybe a couple GAs, but you've got analysts. You've got guys like that down there and they're getting really good coaching, because now you can have sort of an assistant like the NFL has an assistant basically at every position. Like they have the assistant coach and then sort of like the assistant to the assistant coach, you know what I mean like they do just look at their look at their staffs I mean, and it's good to have that because then it's like, hey, you can work on this you can work on that game planning wise but then also on the field it's like, I remember when I was coaching at Wittenberg my first year as a coach. Before Leon I was I was helping the quarterbacks coach Scott is for ding who's now the OC at one of the max schools real real smart guy, but Izzy would let me take the freshmen that weren't like competing and I would coach them up and drills because he's like I can't coach 10 guys and so I'm not giving those guys the bottom of the list. Good coaching so I would then go work with those guys and I was, I was teaching the things that he wanted taught right and emphasizing the things that he wanted taught, but they were getting more reps in because we could split them up. And, and you're going to have more ability to do stuff like that at this level now than you did before. I'm going to have a super chat from S.R.G. Sarge maybe. If do snide ultimately decommits where do you feel this class fits in relation to other Freeman classes, ask me on signing day. I mean I'm not trying to be cop out here but like guys the class isn't complete yet if if he leads the class. Okay, who they replace him with, do you know the answer to that I don't. I mean there's still guys they're trying to add in the class. Let me see how they finish and then there's other schools that haven't finished their classes either so here's, here's what I know if they keep everybody in the class they have right now. They're going to sign a top 100 off tight end. They're going to sign one of the better offensive line classes in the country. They're going to sign probably one of the better linebacker classes in the country and they're going to sign in my opinion the best secondary class in the country in the definitely top two or three. No question. So they're adding a lot of talent at very important positions. We got to see what they do a quarterback if Deuce leaves the class and is right now. You know, I don't even really care to talk about Deuce right now if that tells you anything about how I'm feeling about things right now he's got to do he's got to do and then know the name fans need to be prepared to move on and tip their cap if and whatever. But, you know, there's they got to finish while at receiver there's there's completion to be done we're still four months plus away from signing day. Let's see what they do. Yeah, let's see what they do from here because it's not a complete class right now. Nobody has a complete class right now so let's say I say oh it's still a top five class what may be today. All players and Notre Dame isn't it may not be in four months. It may be a top 10 class now but they go out and add some guys and flip some guys guys break out and then by the end of the years of top five class I don't know how it's going to go so. You know right now I know that everybody's obsessed with deuce night but deuce night if if he leaves the class and you know who we'll see what he's going to do. It doesn't change how good the tight end is or how good the online classes or how good the linebacker classes or how good the DB classes or how good the defensive line classes it has no impact on those positions. None. It impacts the quarterback position. That's it. Right. That's it and this is why you go recruit no grubs you never take for granted that you're going to have so and so on your team. You never take it for granted you go out and keep recruiting studs and now that they got no grubs go find a stud in 2027. Right. And that's this the reality of it so. Tyler Evans with a super chat. Why did Justin. I'm not sure if he's going to be a good guy. I'm not sure if he's going to be a good guy. I'm not sure if he's going to be a good guy. I'm not sure if he's going to be a good guy. Not the most likable person and not a very good recruiter. Just like do it. No ties. No ties in the state of Virginia. He was an Oklahoma Texas kind of guy came from where did he come from like Tulsa or something like that. I forget where Justin Fuente was before he went there. He was at Memphis. Like where else was he at. He was I know he played it Oklahoma. He's from Oklahoma. He coached at Oklahoma. He played at Oklahoma Murray State coached at Illinois State TCU Memphis and Virginia Tech had no ties to these coasts at all. And just didn't do enough with that staff to build good recruiters, in my opinion. And just if you can't recruit, you can't win. There's got to be some level of being able to recruit there. And he wasn't overly well liked it. I don't think he embraced the Frank Beamer success the way he should have. I think he tried too hard to disassociate himself from Beamer Ball. And I don't think he should have. But the recruiting is really the biggest problem. We've seen guys who aren't very personal well liked that are great coaches, but they have great players. It helps. It does. It really does. Irish Canton. What are your initial thoughts on 105 man roster change and the impact it will have? I hate it. I think I think it's absolutely stupid that the NCAA is going to add more games to the schedule and then shorten the rosters. Yeah, make them smaller. That's the stupidest thing ever, but it's the most NCAA thing of all time because it's about one thing and one thing only money. The more players in the team, the more players you got to pay. That's the only reason the NFL has the short small rosters that they have bigger than Ross and more people got paid. Right. I mean, I think it's absolutely stupid. You're going to make them play four to five game extra games, maybe least four or a lot of people. If you lose your conference championship game and something to play off, you got to play 17 games on a title. Oh, and by the way, we're going to make you have 20 less players. And again, does that matter on Saturday? No, it doesn't matter as much on Saturday. You got plenty of depth to be successful on Saturday. Sure. It hurts your depth on Monday to Friday. It hurts your depth of the course of a season when you're from a preparation running scout teams and things like that. It absolutely does. It hurts your special teams. It hurts your walk on program. I think it's an absolute joke. It's a, it is, they're dressing it up as there's 20 more scholarships. That's how they're dressing it up. Right. But the fact that you can only have 105 total players is awful. It's awful. I mean, yeah, give 25 more. Give 20 more scholarships. When they say that you, right, cap Russell 110 and say, listen, if you're a walk on at a program, you're NIL, you know, your money that you make is X amount. Right. I mean, you know, do something like that. But I have a huge product. Like if you want to up the scholarship amount from 85 to 105, awesome. But don't put a cap on your roster. That I can't stand that, to be honest with you. And there's plenty of schools out there that are propped up by their walk on program. Right. I mean, legitimate. Some guy tried to have an argument with me. Oh, well, you don't need a walk on program to win a national championship and da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. Sure you do. Yeah, you do. Like, I don't. If you don't hear about it, but trust me, I had a great walk on program. Exactly. You just don't hear about it. No, he talks about it. Correct. Nebraska's program was largely built on getting linemen that were started as walk-ons. I mean, that did. Right. So yeah, it does help. Look, you don't win because of your walk-on program. But you can lose if you don't have a good walk-on program. I mean, just because in the more you have to use your scholarship guys to be on scout team, the more injuries you're going to have. Absolutely. Absolutely. We'll be able to have certain guys up. So, sorry, we'd love to have you up getting reps up here, but we can't. We need you down there. Run a scout team. Sorry. It will make the 105 limit. I'm interested to see what it does for the lower levels as far as like one double A division two division three, because I think that is going to filter guys down. You know what I mean? Like, you're going to, you're going to see better guy to normally go either as a walk on or whatever from to a division one. Now, they're going to be going down to, you know, a group of five, and then those guys are going to be going. I think, I think you're going to see kind of a watershed moment of talent dropping down a level. I do think that's probably going to be the case to a degree. But the only thing too is there's going to be guys getting scholarships of those power five schools that are just depth guys. Yeah, that would have been going to a max school and dude. And you're going to have to have like honest conversations. You know what I mean? And a guy like Marcus Freeman, I think has those conversations with guys. Like, look, we're going to scholarship you to come to Notre Dame, but you're pretty much a walk on that now has a free education, you know, like, this is where we see you. Right. And I think those conversations need to be had because I think there's also going to be a lot of coaches out there that are selling a bill of goods, which there always will be. Right. But hey, man, you got an offer. You got a full scholarship offer to come play for us. And they have no intention of playing you. None. You're a depth guy. Yeah, exactly. So if you sign on and you know exactly what you're getting yourself into, then awesome. Fantastic. But if you sign on thinking that you're going to be a player and you're not. I think I have a problem with that. If teams are smart, they're still going to get walk on types, type players in that 90 to 105 range. Right. And just because those guys are going to scholarship them, like go get some walk on type of player. You know, don't bring in that guy that's in regard, he still gets it gets a scholarship instead of walking on initially. Correct. You to gave, you know what I mean? Like, okay, yeah, Henry's a walk on. And he may never be a guy for you, but this, this way you, you know, he's going to be your 105 because you need guys like that you need guys that can come in and say, hey, you're going to be a walk, you're going to be a guy that's just going to be on our depth guy and maybe someday down the road you play for us. Right. But this is what you're coming in to do because if you start giving those like go out and get a bunch of four star kids and you're going to have this huge roster turnover every year. Right. Exactly. And a lot of the power teams are going to take kids to stash away to make sure that teams in their league don't get them. Absolutely. We didn't have enough room to go get this kid that ended up going to Kentucky. Well, we want to get him. He's not going to play for us because we made decisions. These guys are better, but at least he won't go to Kentucky. You know, like, hey, I'm just going to take this guy. I'm at, I'm at Michigan and I'm at, you know, so I'm going to take this kid so he doesn't go to Indiana. Does it go to Minnesota? Does it go to Michigan State? Because now we're just going to stash them. Hey, may leave in a year, but he's probably not going to go there. So you're going to see a lot of that stuff too. 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Paid membership with connected payment account required. Whoa. Big time super chat from Blee974. Thank you so much. Really appreciate you. I'm ready to move on from recruiting and head to the season. Contributing to the A&M travel budget. You guys are great. Appreciate you, man. That is awesome. I'm so ready to not talk about recruiting, even though it's important. Don't get me wrong. It is, but the way that it is, the business is gone now. It's just so not fun to talk about. I know. Because as soon as you get this guy, you're on him before anybody else is, you push him, you see the potential, then he blows up over the summer. And now it's like I'm leaving because of money. I'm leaving now because people in the recruiting, what's even dirtier is how the people that cover recruiting are now involved in the dirtiness of it. And that's disgust me. I have zero desire to look and say, "Hey, man, I had a role in this." You know things that I've said and done and had a role in it. You don't hear me talking about it. And I don't really do a lot of that stuff anymore because it's not my job. I have zero desire to say I influence so-and-so to pick Notre Dame. Because I've told guys that work for me, you do that, you're getting fired. That's a fireball offense. Yeah. If I find out that you were hyping up Notre Dame to recruit or talking down another program to recruit, you will lose your job. Ask Nick Kramer if he and I had that conversation. Ask Ryan Roberts if he and I had that conversation. It's not our job. Exactly. If they want us to do that, then they need to be paying us salaries from there. Exactly. 100%. So it's not our job, but there's a lot of people in the recruiting world that think it's their job to help their school get players. Or national people get these kids to flip because then we get stories from it and we make a lot of money. It's a disgusting business. And honestly, if I didn't think I'd lose a good chunk of my business, I'd just stop. I'd only cover recruiting from an analysis standpoint. I would not cover the day-to-day of recruiting if I didn't feel I had to. I'm serious. I just say, "Look, here's who they got, and here's my thoughts on them. I do commit stories and film breakdowns and all that kind of stuff, but I would not cover the day-to-day. Here's the latest with such and such." I just wouldn't. I just wouldn't. I wouldn't. I do it because it's a need. It's a necessity. Yeah, it is. Not because I like it. And I used to love covering recruiting. And it's always been a dirty business, but now it's all out there. I don't know. People don't even hide it anymore. Right. Exactly. It's like, "Look, men have always spouses." Not just men, but spouses have always been unfaithful to their spouses. But now it's like flaunted. It's like TV shows about it now. And it's like, "We're not even embarrassed by it anymore. You speak kind of embarrassed, but you knew it was wrong. You just didn't do it." And now it's like, "Look at me. I'm a whore." It's like, "Okay, whatever." Like, you know. Okay, whatever, dude. You know what I mean? Like, you know, like, it's just, it's sad, man. It really is. And, but it's, it's like people get mad at the kids. I don't know. I'm mad at the players. We started. We created this. We're supposed to have them be the ones that make the grown-up decisions. We created a system in this place where these, where this is what's going on. Are the players really supposed to not take advantage of it? Really? We're, we're leaving into the teenagers? Everyone's supposed to make the mature decisions? Of course they're going to be that way. You know, it's, it's disgusting. It really is. But it's, it's us. It's the adults in the room. We've done it. You know? So. We really agree. Yeah. It's a major problem. And it's not going to get better anytime soon. Yeah. Ziggy 13. Thanks for the super chat. Really appreciate that. Thanks for all the off-season entertainment for the two OGs. I've played Notre Dame at Texas A&M 20 times now in college football, 25 on multiple difficulties. Ready for my official prediction. Notre Dame 31, Texas A&M 24. That's awesome. I love that. They should be good, right? And I beat them every time. It's all good. I mean, it is. First time I got the game, I simulated that first game in Notre Dame 151 to 14. I like that. First simulation I did. So I was like, I'll take that. I like that score. I'll definitely take that. I'm down for sure. Not the, not going to be my prediction, but I like the score. Definitely not my prediction. A&M fans, am I listening to this? We're not predicting that. We don't, we've said we think it's going to be close game. I'm just telling you what the computer at CFP 25 did the first, first time I simulated. That's all I'm saying. By the way, speaking of the game, I got in trouble for taking an vacation. Did you really? You knew that was going to happen. I did. You know, it was worth it. It was that whole ask for forgiveness thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's how that went. And I totally blamed it on the 17 year old. You did. Like I'm the man of the house, please. No, he did it. That's one of my stuff. Yeah, I know. It's my shame to yourself. Yeah. It's a lot fun playing it. You're like, it was so worth it. It was so worth it. Our JG Irving. Mailbag. Why can't Gino just take away Angeli's first read in live practice reps, forcing him into reads two, three, and four. Even if he has to force the throw into coverage. When they do that stuff, they do this stuff all the time. But it's look, guys, it just comes a point in time where some guys just don't have it or not. Yeah. I mean, Ian book was that way. They did all that stuff like that for Ian book all the time. But then you get out the games and it's didn't matter. Didn't matter. Right. So. Now, I'm going to say Steve won't get it because the one thing about Steve Angeli that you have to think about is, and I've said this before, Steve has not played a lot of football. His first year as a starter in varsity was 2020. The COVID year and play like five or six games. That's it. In a second year, they were really dominant and they only passed for like 1700 some yards. I mean, it could have less than 2000 career passing yards coming into high school. You know, and then of course he hasn't played a lot of Notre Dame. So that's part of the reason. So I'm more confident that Steve could eventually figure it out as he gets more reps than I was maybe for an Ian book, who I'm just like, this guy played a lot of football in high school. And if he does not read a defense by his junior year, that's just kind of who he is. You know what I mean? I think that there is a chance for Steve to make a jump because he hasn't played a lot of football. It's just, you know, those, and he was always on the quarterback on a team that was usually significantly better than the team that they were playing. He didn't need to go past his first read in high school. So I think that factors into a lot of it as well. Sure. Sure. Yeah. It's eventually have time for a couple more because I have to go pick up my wife from the airport. So, yeah. Isaiah Lehman, as of right now, which position group are you most confident in and which are you most nervous about? Most confident in, I'm most confident. I mean, pick a defensive position and I'll say I'm confident for the most part. I mean, D line. I'm confident in a corner. I'm confident in safety. I'm confident in line backers, probably the one where I have more questions. I think they're going to be good. How good are they just good top 25 type good? Are they going to be good top 10 type good, right? Like, so there's no position on this team anywhere that I'm like, I think they may not, they may be not good there. Like, they're going to be a top 25 caliber team everywhere, including kicker, punter, all of it. The question is, are they going to be good? Are they going to be top 10 good at certain spots or top five good at certain spots? That's more of where I'm at. So, where are the positions where I'm not sure right now that they're top 10 good, line backer, offensive line, you know, receiver. I think receiver, they're probably closest than they are to the others just because of the experience, you know, the Chris Mitchell ball call is a lot of football. It's just now when you see him do it in Notre Dame. I'm, I'm, I think quarterback's top 10. I think running backs top 10. I think tight ends top 10. I think D line stop 10 and then DB stop 10. I think they're top 10 in all those places. Line backer is a question mark for me as far as are you top 10 or not. I think O line is a question mark. Are they top 10 right now in receivers? Is that fair? I would say punt game, because I just don't know yet. I haven't personally seen it with my own eyes. Sure. So, and we don't know how he's going to kick in a stadium of 100,000. That was going to be the very next thing out of my mouth. Is that even if I see him in practice, that is completely different than seeing it live. I'm just not worried about it because I think the only way that you're really bad at punting is if you can't snap and hold and cover. Sure. I've rarely seen a punter that was so bad that you just, your team, you know, it was just bad. I mean, I'm not a person. But I'm saying, is he going to be a top 10 punter? Right. Like that remains to be seen at this. I was looking at it more from just an overall special team standpoint. You know, I think I'm very confident in the kicking game, like the actual place kicking game coverage is going to be good. I think their return game is going to be pretty good. I mean, yeah. You went out and, you know, got a transfer who was a first team All-American kick returner last year, and he's not even your number one kick return guy on your roster. Right. Just drawing price had a better return average, not better. But the average is not as sure. Daring was almost three yards better for return. You just said didn't have enough to qualify for the. For the number one. So, yeah. Big Super Chat from Bill Shepherd. Thank you so much. Bill really appreciate it. Just just so you know, Vince, I was complaining about how much that it cost when I booked the A&M travel. So I appreciate y'all doing it. This is hilarious. I should be complaining about, you know, money woes. We all have them right. But yes. I appreciate you all doing this. It really helps a lot. I appreciate y'all. He says, keep the cash coming to help Texas A&M travel costs. Appreciate that. In your opinion, having a bigger game in season opener, i.e. Texas, Ohio State, Michigan, and years past. Do you feel it's better for the team as far as focus and hype? Would you rather have a cupcake? I'll be honest. I would rather have what depends on the circumstances on the year, right? What Notre Dame's got coming back. But just without context, I usually would rather have my really big game being week two. Having a warm up game. I usually like, yeah, have some kind of warm up game in a week one. Yeah, that's fair. I agree. I, you know, I think in this regard with Texas A&M being who they are with a brand new coach and everything. I want them week one. I'm at least okay with it. Yeah, I'm okay with it for sure. You know, if this was the defending national champion, you know, that kind of a thing, I might want to tune up game. You know what I mean? But in this regard, I'm okay with it being week one. But I really like the question because normally I would like to have a game ahead of time. Just kind of just iron out some wrinkles, man. Just get some of those jitters out because, you know, if you've got too many jitters going into week one, sometimes those jitters can turn into points for the other team, depending on what that means. You know what I'm saying? And like, you don't want to bury yourself in a manner that you can't come back in a big game, right? And so I like getting those out of the way. If you're going to have a game against a really good team in week one, you don't schedule a team like Marshall in week two. Like Marshall significantly better in 2022 than what Northern Northern was a bull team last year, but that Marshall team was very good for their level. Now, that's not an excuse. Sure. But the thing is, there was such an emotional let down that next week. Because you lost Ohio State because remember, I kept saying on the off season, Marshall was a trap game for me because I did the emotional part of it. And, you know, where you just want to play a team that you're going to be no matter what, and if you're going to do that. Right. But I'd still even even this year I'd still would still rather get it because I'd like to have a game of, you know, Mike then Brock and Riley Leonard getting that under their belt. I don't necessarily want Charles Jagasau or Neil Wagner's first real start in real game to be, you know, against A&M. Sure. I'd like a game to the receivers get on the same page. I mean, so I would always like that. That's why, you know, because I'm coming from an air where every level of football I've ever been a part of except for this one Vince. You have a scrimmage. We had him in high school. We had him at D three. We would always have before this first game. Yeah, like when I was a C and U we'd scramble. We played like Hampton Sydney one year. And when I was in Ohio, I defines, I think we played Ohio Wesley in one year and we played a team from Michigan. I'm trying to remember who we played Michigan one year. And so, yeah, you always have scrimmages beforehand. Gotcha. And I think they should have them now. Because if you had scrimmages like that, like, I've always, we've talked about this before where you should have some sort of system where you can do some sort of like they do in the NFL where you have like a three days together. You know, you can, the home team always should, you know, pay for it or whatever. But, you know, we'll pay for your lodging. You pay for travel. We'll pay for all your, you know, we'll take care of your food and put you guys up or whatever. But, you know, let's say Indiana wants to come up for three days and, you know, do like a practice. So you're doing seven on seven to get, you know, you have the multiple fields. You can do your own stuff like that by yourself. Your name's got an indoor field to outdoor fields and then an extra field outside. There's four fields. You can have them practice on a couple and do their individual and then you do seven on ones against each other. You do seven on sevens against each other. You do O line D line against each other. You have, you have, you know, team scrimmages. And, okay, now I'm good. Now I'll play whoever in week one because I've had some sort of evaluation to get someone else. Yeah. That, you know, helps you feel like that we've been able to identify who we are as a team. And so yeah, that's one. And I don't know that I would ever say I want to play a cupcake. But I would want to play it like I wouldn't mind if Miami, Ohio was the opener. Sure. That's a quality team there. It's, I mean, it's a team that name should beat beat convincingly but it's like, I don't, I don't think you get a lot out of playing like Tennessee State in the opener before A&M. I don't know how I don't, I think literally think an inner squad scrimmage the week before would be better for you. Yeah. I'm serious. I agree with you. I'm not trying to be disrespectful but like it's now playing Ohio Northern Illinois if they would have just flipped the A&M and, okay, that's more in line with one thing. You know, there's going to be, we can't just sleep walk through the game but, you know, we're going to be tested a little bit but, you know, we can work out some kinks and things like that. So it just depends on like, I don't know that I'd say cupcake. I just would want a team that yeah we're going to we're not going to lose. And some of them, some of the mistakes were, I would rather make some of those. I'd rather Riley Leonard make a mistake and throw a pick against Northern Illinois in the opener than at A&M, that kind of thing, you know, or fumble or whatever. That's kind of where I'm coming from on that. So like schedule is perfect the way that it is if you just flipped flip blop. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get that. This got one more before we get out of here because I did want to get to this question from Isaiah Lehman or Lehman, excuse me, which player would help Notre Dame the most if they had an all American season other than Riley Leonard. I'm very curious what your answer is to this one gets. What player in this team helps this team the most if they have an all American season other than Riley Leonard. I have my I know my answer is actually an easy one. Is it really I'm okay I've got a cut I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you the names that are floating around in my head okay. A meal Wagner is one Drake Bowen is another one. And then maybe like a like a Jaden great house maybe might be another one for me. We're close to mine. Okay, you're close to mine. And I think you know my you think Jaggis all shroud think Drake Bowen's a good one Riley Mills is one that kind of pop my head as a potential one. You know Christian Gray, but I'm kind of confident in like defense I'm confident on defense. I know I know yeah. And you know I thought Jeremiah love but I mean I'm like to me the thing that really takes this team to the next level if one guy broke out which one. It would be it would you know I thought Jaden great house Chris Mitchell but I'm really going to settle in on this one. Oh Collins. Because if Notre Dame had an all American boundary receiver. I don't know how you defend this team. I don't. Because if you're in it because then Brock likes to run a lot of three by one. Yeah, whether start two by two motion of three by one or start three by one and motion to two by two or come back to he does a lot of three by one. And then we've got Mitchell leavens Jaden great house and Chris Mitchell to the field or Jordan phase on or whoever and you've got an all American boundary receivers backside I don't know how you defend this football team. I really don't. Because how can you put enough numbers to defend the trip side when you've got a guy in the boundary that you can't defend. You can't guard because he's an all American. Like I don't know how you like I don't know how you defend that team and now if you're going to do certain things with your safety to help help out. I'm an empty sets going three by one with a back week and I'm now running some arrows and some different things with Jeremiah love because your safety can't help and now I've got your will linebacker isolated on Jeremiah love because you're so focused on my boundary all American. I don't think I don't know how teams defend that offense if that's the case. I really don't. Like, and again this isn't necessarily about bow being better than it's just if that position had an all American. Like, how do you defend Jane Greathouse and Mitchell Evans to the field or Chris Evans and Jane Greathouse to the field Vince. If you're worried about a boundary all American. I still not you defend that. I really don't. So that's my answer. I like it. There's a lot of good ones. But that would be mine. That would be mine. So there we go Vince that'll do it for us, man. All right, that's going to do it for this edition of the Friday free for all mailbag. Make sure you hit the like button the subscribe button the notification bell share with your family and friends and jump on the boards. Boards on Irish Breakdown.com you get your practice reports immediately as we get back. You know, you're getting analysis you're getting, you know, film breakdowns you're getting all the goodness over on the boards but you got to be a member of boards Irish Breakdown. 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