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That's indeed.com/bluewire, terms and condition supply. And to hire, you need Indeed. I'm Sean Steyers. He's Vince Teterio. Got a lot of good questions for we and we out. Okay, so this is two prongs here from a law dog. We in and we out, Posh Baker will start at left tackle against Texas A&M and he will give up less than one and a half sacks against Texas A&M. I'm in on both of those to be honest with you. I don't know that he's going to give up two sacks, but that's that's a lot. I don't know that they're going to they might give up a couple sacks in the game, but I don't think they're both going to be on Tosh Baker. So I will be in on both. He's definitely going to start that that was an easy one and the second one, maybe it's a little bit harder, but I'm in on both. Yeah, I'm going to go in on both as well. I was looking at a comment here and I need to start it so I don't lose track. I'm going to go in as well. Tosh Baker will start against at left tackle. That is that is a virtual lock. I think the only question mark in terms of who the the starting five will be against Texas A&M as the left guard at this point because Joe Rudolph said this week that it's still kuggan and spindler still going back and forth. And I would think that they would want to have that fair solidified fairly soon because of the whole you've got Tosh Baker out there at left guard and Joe Rudolph has talked about, you know, like this guy plays better next to this guy and this guy plays better next to this guy. Because those factors went into the decision to who was starting where when it came to the sun bowl last year. So I think that they would want to have that left guard, you know, figured out pretty soon. So I'm definitely in on that and then Baker gives up less than one and a half sex. I'm in on that as well. You know, again, I would say one at the most, I just feel like everyone thinks like it's going to be a free run to the quarterback with Tosh Baker out here. I don't think it's going to look like because if that's what it was going to look like, they wouldn't be as confident as they are right now and him being out there. They're not just going to like, well, let's just throw this guy out there and beat ourselves over the head. And you know, we want to look as bad as possible and just let guys have free runs at the quarterback. Because even again, even if he's having issues, whatever they might be, you've got a mobile quarterback like Riley Leonard, he's going to help you avoid some of that. I agree, I think the better number would be like pressures. You know what I mean? It's, you know, over under five and a half pressures, you know, that kind of a thing. I think that might be a better barometer for how well Tosh has played because I do think Riley Leonard will have will have an opportunity to escape some of that USMA 87 says, which side does the stud defensive line player line up? I mean, they typically it's both. They're going to move them around all over the place because it's based on strength. And so just like Notre Dame, right? One side weeks. There you go. So it'll be both. He'll he'll be a chance to pick on both guys. Staimi bringing knowledge Leonard was sacked 29 times over three years at Duke, over half of those in 22, only six and 21, seven and 23, the seven and 23 is a high number. But again, he didn't have a great offensive line last year and he had, you know, he had the one guy that ended up getting drafted. But other than that, he didn't have a great offensive line last year. So like the seven, the seven sacks in the games that he played in is a pretty high, you know, like if you multiplied that out over the course of season, like he was on, on pace to get sacked more, but he doesn't have anywhere near the quality of offensive lineman in front of him. Yeah. And that's the biggest thing. I mean, look, you can have all the gangs that you want about Notre Dame's offensive line. They're still better than Duke's offensive line. So you got to take that into account. The ball peen is here. Oh, yes, Shalele. Okay. So he's got a couple first, how Riley Leonard is able to handle quarterback pressures will be a key factor in whether Notre Dame outscores Texas A&M in the A&M in the opener. We in and we out. I, yeah, I'm in. I mean, he's going to be super important because he's going to be sliding protections. He's going to be literally avoiding pressure at times. He's going to be RPOing, which will be directly, you know, based on the pressures that he's getting 100% in on that one, no doubt. Yeah, I agree. Like it's one of the reasons that you went to the transfer portal again and brought in a guy with the experience of Riley Leonard for, for that, that kind of intangible, the clock in his head and his ability to move in and out of the pocket and, you know, when to take off when he needs to, all those different things. So for sure, because again, we expect A&M's front to be the strength of their defense. So right. It's going to be, that's going to be a big key. I do. I'm definitely in on that. So then the other one from ball peen in the opener, Jadari and Price ends up with more snaps than Jeremiah Love in or out on that. I think I'm still out on that. I believe Love is still going to be the one a choice. But I also think there's a chance that they play the hot hand depending on who that could be. But in the opener, I think the plan is going to be to have Jeremiah Love get the majority of the snaps. And so I'll be out on that. I'm out on it as well. You know, we went into the sun bowl thinking it was going to be Jeremiah Love and it started off being Jeremiah Love and he wasn't quite able to be as physical as he needed to be as a runner and Jadari and Price obviously picked up the slack run him for over 100 yards. But Love has has bulked up that frame in a good way. He's he's stronger now. He's more physical now. So I'm I'm definitely I'm out on that one price ending up with more snaps. I'm out on that noise. Carlos says he has confidence that we have an offensive coordinator smart enough to leave a back end to help with protection if needed and this is part of it as well. It's not just the offensive line. Like anytime you talk about sacks and that kind of stuff and like you hear dealer McCullough talk about it. And I think that sometimes fans can you know, like you just you don't think about things like Pass Pro for example, and they feel really good with their running backs with with their past protection and their blitz pickup because that is one of the non negotiable for dealing McCullough as a running back. If you're going to get on the field, you better be able to pass protect. And I know that he he really likes what Jeremiah Love brings in that aspect. It sounds like the freshmen are coming along as well, but he really likes right now what Jeremiah Love can bring. And so, you know, like if you if you kind of spin it back to what Vulpian's talking about with snaps, depending on flow of the game and how things are are going, that's potentially more times that Jeremiah Love will need to be out there if he is indeed like at the top of the list in terms of past protection. 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So five touchdowns and apparently a field goal as well if my math is accurate, right? So five touchdowns and a field goal, 38 to 20, that would be amazing. Can you imagine the hype that will be going down if that was the case? Holy smokies. I think that's a little aggressive. I mean, could I see it happening? You know, the offense could snowball and score a bunch of points and you could see a brand new defense on a brand new team with a new coach kind of thing kind of implode a little bit. I mean, I could see that honestly, the most unrealistic thing in my opinion about this entire thing is I don't think A&M has a prayer score in 20. That's what I was looking at, 20 points I don't think is going to happen. No, I don't either. And I'm not going to be surprised if Notre Dame's defense scores a touchdown fair in this game. Fair. So, so like, even if I'm still a little hesitant to say Notre Dame is going to be hitting really high over 30. But if that happens, it's going to be because the defense gives them a couple of big plays in that game. So I'm going to be out on this. That's a lot of touchdowns for the offense to be coming up with. But, you know, I like the optimism, but I think the defense is going to be more involved and they, I don't see them giving up 20 points unless it's, you know, like a, you know, blow out type touchdown late in the game or something like that. Right. Yeah. I mean, I'll, I'm out on all of this happening, but, you know, just as a score, I think it's possible. I don't think I would predict it though. From Joe, we interweout the next game Notre Dame plays in an NFL stadium should be Arrowhead stadium. And of course, I assume, you know, he means like the next one, they schedule obviously because they'll play in Lambo next year. They're playing down there in Atlanta this year. So they've obviously got a couple of NFL stadiums lined up this season. So what do you think? He said he also says bonus if it's against Nebraska, Kansas or Kansas state. Well, we know that you'd be in on this, especially if it was against Kansas. That'd be a lot of fun. So even though the last time Notre Dame played Kansas, it was not fun for, for Kansas. Well, that's fair. Well, it was either 19. I think that was in 1999 was the last time it was a long time ago. Yeah. Hey, Kansas on the up, baby. All right. We are. We did the big 12 preview. I'm all in on Kansas. All right. Ryan wasn't. I am. Who's is he more in on Kansas state than you know, is that where he's going? Big time. Yeah. Easy to buy that, that, that hype train, but he's in on it. Be ready when the Jayhawks beat the Wildcats this season. I'm calling that right now. He is of the opinion that Jane Daniel or Jane Daniels, your quarterback. Jalen Daniels. Jalen, thank you. It's very close. It's very similar. Yeah. Can't stay healthy. And if that is the case, then Kansas will struggle. If he stays healthy, they'll be really good. Yeah. He just had an injury all of last season that he just wasn't able to come back from. Yeah. I mean, that is a concern because you're like, you talk about injury history. He's been more injury prone and, and that kept him out. I mean, it's, that's legit. If he can't stay healthy, then they're going to be in a much worse situation than they were in last year. I would, I would agree with that. I am, I'm just so neutral on the NFL stadium thing. I get to, I don't care. I just don't care. I don't know that I've ever heard Arrowhead stadium be a thing outside of on this show. And both. You mean, like as a, as a destination, as a, as a, as a possibility, I've heard both you and Brian say that you would love to go see a game at Arrowhead stadium with Notre Dame playing in it. I think that would be cool. But I'm going to say I'm out in the definitive that it is the next game that Notre Dame plays in an NFL stadium. Yeah. Cause like that part of the country just has not driven any real interest for Notre Dame, it seems like. And that's a really good point from a recruiting standpoint and do you need to get into that area? Like, is that really where Notre Dame needs to play? Right. That are off like Houston. They've been to San Antonio before, like, like Houston or to Dallas, still, you know, Arlington, whatever, still make a lot of sense because the fact that of the Texas recruiting hotbed and getting into Texas more and, and that kind of thing. So I would love it, but I'm probably out just, just because it doesn't seem like it's, it's been a priority for Notre Dame to get to that, because from either a recruiting standpoint, like that area is just not a recruiting hotbed by any means. And from an alumni standpoint, there are Notre Dame alums everywhere. But again, because the population is so much more thin in that part of the country, there's just not as many alums there either. I think that they, you know, would draw the interest. Joe Allen, who obviously put this question in, he says, a lot of recruiting out of Green Bay. Well, my answer to that would be Green Lambo field trumps the recruiting because of the history. Right. That, that's why. And it was also part of a home and home with Wisconsin where Soldier Field was also involved. Right. So that's, that's part of it as well. It was okay. Where can you go? That's a NFL stadium that's near you Wisconsin obviously chose Lambo. So that would be the difference. And at the time they signed that contract with Wisconsin, Wisconsin was a better program. They could still end up being, you know, good again, but they've kind of taken a few steps down, you know, the, the, the rungs of the ladder over the last few years since they signed that contract. Because it's probably been like 10 years since the, you know, eight or 10 years or something like that since they actually signed that deal. And I'm not saying every place they go is you're getting into a recruiting hotbed, but you're like, they signed that deal, Chicago was one. That's a, that's a recruiting emphasis for Notre Dame, but they got to play at Soldier Field and they're going to get to play at Lambo and both of those get to be shamrock series games. Right. So like Notre Dame gets to control the TV and all of that stuff. So that's why it worked out, you know, and that's part of it as well. Because the way all these TV contracts are worked, the opponents of these different shamrock series game typically have to be from outside whatever the predominant conference is in that area. Like when they went to Arlington, for example, it was Arizona State because they were in the Pac-12 at that point, like you couldn't play a big 12 team there because then the big 12's TV partner would get the precedent there. It's like they had to play Army and Washington State the two times they went to San Antonio. It's like all these, you know, like who the, who the, who the main conferences in the area that they're playing these games dictate some of these decisions as well from a TV standpoint in terms of who you can play, where you can play it, all that different kind of stuff. There's a lot of stuff there. Again, Joe, I would love to see him play at Arrowhead, but seems like they might have already played there if that was like I would love to see him play a game in Seattle as well for that matter in the, in, in whatever the Seahawks stadium, I can never remember the name of that for. No, it's got, it's had so many to be honest with you, but yeah. The Omer Gris, Mike Denmark's preference for zone runs will make it easier for obviously I believe he means Riley Leonard to see the field this year. Oh, no, I think he means, I think he means Gerby Lambert. Oh, oh, okay. Say I wasn't even thinking along those lines. Okay. Yeah. He means Gerby Lambert. I thought he meant literally like see the field. Oh, yeah. Like I was like, okay, okay. What do you think about that? So it makes it easier for Gerby Lambert to see the field because of Denmark's preference for zone runs. I'm out because I don't think they're going to give him an opportunity to see the field to be perfectly honest with you based on what we saw. I just don't think it matters. I don't think, I don't think it's a as easy as a scheme fit or anything like that. I don't think that makes much of a difference for him having an opportunity to see the field. So I'm going to be out. Yeah. I'm out on there as well. You know, again, I wasn't looking at the question right, but the guy is third string right now. I think that at this point, it's going to take an injury slash some other factor playing in for Gerby to get out there this year. That's kind of, it's kind of what I'm thinking right now. This one from Tyler, we in and we out Notre Dame will be the better program by the time of the Notre Dame Bama series. Ooh, when is that? That's a few years from that begins in 2029 Notre Dame host Alabama Lord in five years and they visit Alabama in the following season 2030. That is a really good question, Tyler. I love this question to be perfectly honest with you. I love the trajectory of Notre Dame. Alabama's not going to take much of a step back. I think they got a really good coaching staff. I am very interested to see what the next couple of years look like for Alabama, but I think as we say here and I was break down, I feel like the gap has closed a little bit. And so I will, the better program, I'm going to be in on it just because I want it to happen, but I do believe by the time if Marcus, here's the caveat, if Marcus Freeman is still the head coach at Notre Dame and that time, I feel like those programs will have come a heck of a lot closer if not like right here. Yeah, I'm going to go in on it. Again, assuming Marcus Freeman is still in charge and because if he is still in charge five years from now, then that is what year eight, year nine that he's going into, essentially. So he's not going to be around that long if the program is not going in the direction that is supposed to be. And as good as Caleb DeBore has been, I'm still, you know, look, I want to see him do it on his own at Alabama because Nick Saban, when you look at the last, let's just go 30 years, it's like Gene Stallings, Nick Saban, the only two coaches to have any real success at Alabama. Stallings obviously won a national championship himself and then, you know, Nick obviously took it to another level, but there have been a lot of other coaches at Alabama who have failed in between. So I want to see DeBore run this thing on his own down there at Alabama. I don't think it's just a matter of, oh, it's the SEC and, you know, all this, you know, like Nick Saban essentially helped make the new SEC. He helped make the SEC currently into what it is. So I want to see, I want to see DeBore have some actual success of his own down there. Like, come back to me in three years when we see after he's, you know, I know he's doing a good job in recruiting right now and all that stuff, but I'm going to hedge toward Notre Dame in this. I like it. I'm in. Yeah. Yeah. Way to be positive. I like it. Look where your head's at. All right. From Irish BS, we in and we out, Notre Dame will have more wins than all but three Big Ten and SEC schools. Combined. Notre Dame will have more wins than all but three Big Ten and SEC schools combined than all but three. So are we saying that like the teams at the bottom of the conference, like Notre Dame will have more wins than them? I'm very confused by the combined part of this than all but three Big Ten and SEC schools. I don't know how to answer this because I'm not exactly sure where we're going with this. If they're saying that Notre Dame is going to have more total wins than, you know, the top of the Big Ten and the SEC, like 11 and, you know, who's going to have 11, who's going to have 10, like that kind of thing, then yeah, I'll buy that. I'm just not sure about the combined part so I don't know, I want to, yeah, like I'm trying to. Like AntVR says out of both conferences, only three teams will have more wins in Notre Dame. Now, okay, if that's the question, then I'll buy it and I will sit like, okay, let's say a Notre Dame's 11 and one. So how many teams are going to have equal to or I guess they would have to be 10 wins or less, right, or because it says more than, right, so they have to have more. So if you look at the top echelon of, okay, yeah, so he's saying, so they'll have more wins than all but three teams. So he's basically saying the three best teams, right, from the Big Ten in the SEC. So like, you know, Texas, Oregon, you know, Ohio State, are they going to have basically are they going to have those would be the three, I suppose, that might have more wins than Notre Dame, potentially, yeah, or equal to or more, right, 11 or more, I think that's possible. So I'll buy it. What the heck? I'm going to buy it. I mean, I'm in. Yeah, I'm in. Gonna use the right terminology. I'm in. Irish Hawk 31. We know we out Gerby Lambert is closer to redshirting this year than starting at left tackle. Irish Hawk 31 nailed it. I'm in on that. I absolutely think that definitely in yeah, based on what Joe Rudolph was saying, I'm absolutely in on that. We enter we out. This one from Leon Fark. We enter we out. We'll see at least 12 different players score a rushing or receiving touchdown this year. I am in on this 19 total players scored offensively for Notre Dame last year. So this is a big you cheated. You looked this up early. I did. I did. All right. But if that was the case from last year, what would we what would we be doing otherwise? We'd be pulling up the stats. We go right. Okay. How are your support? So that's why I went and looked. So I love it. I want to come into this flame blind. I think he nailed it. I'm totally in on that then. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Stymie stir in the pot. He says Tyler Buckner is going to be. No, he won't. Well, I can't say that because maybe he gets in on like senior night or something. Big field goal. It could happen. He wasn't even the holder the other day, was he? Well, he's been kind of dinged up. So I don't know. That's true. I don't know how much that played into it. That's a good point. I didn't see his quad wrapped, but he could still like it, but you know, you might not be able to bend the knee and all that kind of stuff. He can still sling it, baby. Yeah. Uh oh. He shot 12 Vince will be more nervous for Dylan's first field goal attempt of the season over Tash Baker lining up at left tackle against Texas A&M. Interral. It's a huge in. I about crap myself. Every time he lines up for a kick, whether it's a PT or a field goal, 100% so in on that it's not even funny because I have no control over Tash Baker as left tackle at Notre Dame. I, you know, had a lot to do with the other one. So I mean, I had forgotten that he still has like a senior year of, you know, oh yeah, high school football to play after all these recruiting things going on this summer. That's right. I'm like, hold it. Isn't he a punter? But yeah, he's a, he's a kicker still. He was the kicker all last year. And this year he's also adding punting. He's a starting punter and the starting kicker. So even more opportunities for me to be nervous and upset and everything else. So it's awesome. It's fantastic. Enter out on Sean Saviano getting some meaningful snaps this year. Meaningful snaps doesn't just mean playing. It means playing when it matters and I will be out on that. I don't think that will be the case. I think he's just a little bit too buried for that. Yeah. And I mean, I just put up a story at irisbreakdown.com. I think, I think it was posted this morning, it was either this morning or, or last night. And it's basically Al Washington going through and we're going to talk some defensive line here in rapid firing a little bit, but he's basically going through the top 11 12 guys. And I think Sean Saviano is at least right below the cut there right now along with like Devin Houston and Brennan Vernon. I think are both right below that as well. Washington did talk this week about how Saviano has lost a bunch of weight and he's in better shape and all that kind of stuff. But he's essentially just talked about how those three guys specifically, still physically developing, still sort of figuring things out with technique and scheme and all those different kind of things. And there are just guys in front of them who are a little bit stronger and doing better right now, a little bit more experience. So I don't think we're going to see much in the way of meaningful snaps for Saviano this season. That doesn't mean he won't see the field maybe in some opportunities in different games, but I don't think that they're necessarily going to be high leverage type snaps that he's going to take. This episode is brought to you by our good friends at NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. I'm sure by now you've all gotten back into your Sunday routines, but they could be even better. With NFL Sunday ticket and YouTube TV, you get the most live NFL games all in one place every game every Sunday. 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I really don't, especially with the subbing rules and everything else, you know, I think it's go hold the ball. Yeah, you still have to wait for, you know, I mean, if Notre Dame subs, then the defense gets a chance to sub, you know, if they're not going to sub, then obviously the defense doesn't get a chance to sub, but you could have gotten that information from the sideline. I think quicker than the helmet communication because the helmet communication only goes to the quarterback and then he has to disseminate it to everybody else in the field. I think it's faster to look over to the sideline for everybody to see the play all at the same time. So I'm out. Yeah, I don't think there's going to be an advantage from a tempo standpoint either. And it's like, it's not that a lot of NFL teams are out there running a lot of tempo all the time, but you just, you haven't seen the NFL has been using this for a long time. And you, there's, there's really no extra benefit. I don't think right. I mean, it's more of a benefit, obviously, if you're huddling, you know, I mean, and yeah, so I don't see that as a benefit. He also says the Notre Dame linebacker room is the most well recruited position since Marcus Freeman's arrival in South Bend, including his defensive coordinator, Interout on that. I think you could make that case. Yeah, I think you could make that case because, you know, there are other talented positions on the field, but from a straight recruiting standpoint, from high school to college. So transfer portal doesn't count. I would say it's either linebacker or offensive line. I mean, offensive line has stayed really consistent. Yeah. Yep. It's the, they still don't miss their, what do you think about running back? Yeah. Good call, guinea pig clips. I think that's a good one. I think, I think after offense, and I mean, look, quarterback recruiting has gone pretty well. It has. Obviously there's a big, you know, drama in terms of what's going to happen with all that stuff. But as of right now, it's been recruited really well, three cycles in a row. If you go back to Marcus Freeman's tenure, though, when he started, I don't know that why that quarterback recruiting was awesome. That's the only reason I didn't say quarterback. You know what I mean? Yeah. So his first year was 21, right? And so who, I don't, who was the quarterback in 21? Was it Buckner? Cone was the starting quarterback, but who was the recruited quarterback? He's a transfer. He doesn't count. The recruited quarterback would have been, was it in jelly that year, or was it munchy? It wouldn't have been munchy. That's that. It was munchy 22. Munchy was. Yeah. He would have been 22 because that was like, well, no, because this year, car sign. So cars 24, I mean, well, it, it's gone cars 24, munchy was 23, 23, and jelly would be 22. And then what was it? Drew Pine or was it Clark? See, those, the top, so whoever it was and, and jelly, that's not great. You know what I mean? Right. But do, but do the three, or, you know, even the four does, does Kenny Menchie, CJ Carr, Noah Grubbs, Deuce Knight, Noah Grubbs, does that out way, whatever came at the start of that? Yeah. I mean, Freeman was still defensive. You could make the argument. Yeah. You could make the argument. So he says Buckner was 22. No, Buckner. No, he couldn't have been because he was the quarterback and he was the backup quarterback with, you know, with the package in 21. So he would have been, he was the 21, right? Yeah. Well, I guess he probably 20, like, let's see, that's how much I follow recruiting. The bottom line though is the quarterback recruiting is a lot better. So I think that is good. I think running back recruiting is good. Offensive line remains at a consistent level. And even, you know, even cornerback is, is better, you know, all for sure. No, quarterback has gotten leaps and bounds better. Like I said, it was just be the first two of his tenure at Notre Dame that would be iffy. But since then it's gotten fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Oops. So Buckner was 21, we're getting some confirmation from the people. Okay. So there you go. Tommy says it's Olympic season. We enter we out on people earning their living in their chosen sport here in the United States, but playing for their country of origin. Yeah, I'm in on it because that's where they, that's their country of origin. That's where they were born. I mean, I have no problem with, with, I mean, there are plenty of people that have studied overseas and come back to the United States. So why should, you know, from an academic standpoint, so why should it be any different? You know, American players go over to Europe and play basketball all the time. If they're not good enough for the NBA, I, I don't care. You should be able to play for your country of origin. Yeah. And I mean, most of these, most of these guys are still residents of their country of origin. You know, like, right, exactly. That, you know, like, I think Joellen Bead had an opportunity to play for two other countries, France, and then another one, as well as the United States. And he decided to play for the U.S. and okay, that, I mean, that's, that's his prerogative. I do think some of the rules about some of these people playing for other countries is a little on the skimpy side, but if you were born in that country, then you should be able to play for that country, right? It shouldn't be like, well, your dad was born in that country, so you can play for that country. Like, I think that's a little sketchy in my personal opinion, but I mean, it's whatever it's not. Well, you know, look, because the opposite of this is you do have people who were born and raised here in the United States because of what you're talking about, exactly. Graham always born in what, you know, like Italy, so you get to go play for the Italian team. I think Mike Piazza was one of those guys, if I remember right, you know, like classic or whatever. And like Warren Ibo on the who played for Notre Dame women's basketball, you know, not this past season, but the season before she's from Washington, D.C., but she's playing for Nigeria in the Olympics because of one of those kinds of things. Right. That's just though. That's like I said, that's a little bit too much, you know, six degrees of kind of bacon for me. And obviously the reason they do it is because they want more. Most of those countries have a hard time, you know, getting the caliber of athletes, I totally understand. I totally get it. And usually a player that is making that choice is not really affecting, you know, the medals or anything like, you know what I mean? And so hey, if you're going to do it so that you can have some more competition than awesome, I guess, you know what I mean? Like my grandma was born in Puerto Rico. So that means I guess I could play for Puerto Rico is that how that works? You know what I mean? So, I don't know, there's a lot of funny stuff there. You and Juan Epstein probably never signed Epstein's mother signed Epstein's mother. I know. Welcome back, Kata. All right. Right. Salty. I love the Ivy happy hour motto. We talk about sports all sports except recruiting. I mean, that's what we do. Sorry. We're not recruiting next man. And we never will be. That's right. We have full-time jobs. Too many other things to deal with. We pay guys specifically to cover and talk about recruiting, so just the way it is. I think we've held our own as much as we can in terms of a recruiting talk, you know, in sort of recent months. We're not going to be the experts, but I think that, yeah, I think we've followed it enough that we can at least talk somewhat about it, right? It's like just because I can't remember every- I know, right? Quarterback at each recruiting class, come on, man. Come on. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]
