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Speed slower above 40 gigabytes of CD-Tails. My dad works in B2B marketing. He came by my school for career day and said he was a big row as man. Then he told everyone how much he loved calculating his return on ad spend. My friend still laughing at me to this day. Not everyone gets B2B, but with LinkedIn, you'll be able to reach people who do. Get $100 credit on your next ad campaign. Go to LinkedIn.com/results to claim your credit. That's LinkedIn.com/results. Terms and conditions apply. LinkedIn. The place to be. To be. Welcome to the show. Ivy Nation Sports Talk is up and rolling on this Thursday where you aren't just two days away from Notre Dame season. The way to Indians. Joining us for the show, we've had a troll or two this week. We've had some well-mannered, well-behaved Aggies fans pop in at times this week. Just a reminder, keep it civil sunshine. Whether it's all good until someone gets called a jabroni. If you act like a jabroni, you're not going to be here for long regardless of who you cheer for. Okay, so I'm Sean Steyers. I'll be your pilot for the solo flight tonight. Vincent Jesse, both have other obligations, I suppose. We've got a lot to get to tonight that we're going to keep it above the board. We've got some comments from Marcus Freeman that we're going to have to start things out from his noon Zoom media press conference today, not streamed on YouTube. So, you know, you must maybe you've read a little bit about him and I think I think Brian might have posted one of the stories that I wrote about it today. I don't know if it's quite up just yet, but that's where we'll start. We also have plenty of we in, we out questions that we are going to get to as well. Tommy says he can't find the way in and we out threat on the board. It's there. I've got it sitting here and ready to go so I can bounce those questions. In tonight, hit the like button if you would on your YouTube channel as you as you come into the show tonight much appreciated as always so let's not waste any time because there's a lot to get to. We're going to start with some of the Marcus Freeman comments and I'll start with the injuries stuff that came up today because Notre Dame announced three injuries two of them are going to be season ending tabron Benny pal and styles Prescott both had shoulder surgery. Well, Betty Pella's had the shoulder surgery Prescott is going to have the shoulder surgery. Tate Johnson is going to miss some time with a broken bone in his foot as well. Probably both of those got ice and you see it with a lot of freshmen. They have pre existing injuries that probably started in high school and, you know, when all of a sudden you get them here and their shoulder pops out or, you know, they have shoulder issues and you take an MRI and you say, okay, we have to make the decision. Do we fix it now and have them miss the season but have them back for spring ball, which is so crucial for their development or do we wait until after the season and both of those guys. I don't know what the future would have been if they didn't get surgery, but I would say at the moment we felt like they were probably registered potential guys and we thought it was best to just get their their shoulders fixed now and have them back for spring ball. As far as today, today, we expect him back at some point during the season. He's a guy that he got injured probably right at the very end of camp, you know, with his foot. But, you know, the other guys, I think it was just accumulation of probably things that happened in high school and one or two incidents that happened here that made us get MRI of those shoulders and say, okay, we need to fix them. Yeah, so interesting to hear him talk about it like that, you know, like basically, yeah, you kind of had some preexisting stuff and that stuff happens time to time, maybe even more than you think, you know, like guys. Get something happens in high school and they play through it and they think they're okay and maybe they get here and all of a sudden, you get popped a little bit harder or you go down awkwardly and, you know, it's even more painful than it was before and it gets even more injured than it was before. So, no Benny Powell, no Prescott this year. And like he said, they were probably red shirt candidates. Anyway, take Johnson, probably along the same lines, you know, in terms of a red shirt this year, even though it sounds like he is going to be available, or, you know, at least recovered anyway from a broken bone in his foot. At some point within the next several weeks, DK or salty saying he doesn't think that we can top last night so I'm glad you like last night show salty fired up about it like reiterating. He's all it. No DK I didn't ship the starter jacket. Sorry. I know it's the same colors as lions, but I really don't think you'd like it. You know, if it actually if I actually were prize picks is America's number one daily fantasy sports app with over 5 million active members prize 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 player stat projections and watch the winnings roll in. Get in on the daily action with your friends and become part of the prize picks community today. You can now win up to a hundred times your money on prize picks with as little as four correct picks. You can turn $10 into $1,000. I'm a Bears fan, so this one gets me really excited. 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Howard Cross, there's been kind of some, you know, at least some rumblings I guess because of the fact that he was on a little bit of a load management schedule during training camp with a lower body injury. There's been some question about him. Is he gonna be able to be full go? You know, would he, would there be any restrictions on him? No, no load management, no restrictions for Saturday. Marcus Freeman said he is a full go. Not worth playing a sound bite on that because literally the only response that Marcus Freeman gave was, yes, he's gonna be, he's gonna be a full go Saturday night. Now Gabriel Rubio, you might remember he broke a bone in his foot the first day of fall camp. So Marcus Freeman updated him and also something to hear on Armel Mukam who had a pretty good fall camp and is expected to contribute this season. I would say Rubio's still probably about a month out, a month away. He's in his rehab phase as we speak. Armel Mukam is really stepped up. He's one of the guys that from year one to year two has done a really good job at physically developing, but also in terms of his production on the field. He's definitely improved tremendously and will be a guided, will have a chance to help us on the field starting this game. And so we have a lot of confidence in that deep to tackle room, the depth of the room, even with Rubio being out for a month or so. But we obviously running back as soon as we can. Yeah, so there you go, little update on Gabriel Rubio on track to come back mid season. But in the meantime, Armel Mukam, all six foot three and 302 pounds of him, gonna be a contributor in the middle of that defensive line as well. You know, like when you look at some of the guys in terms of full health, Mukam, six, three, 302, high and six, two, two, seventy eight on yay, six, five, two, ninety one, crosses six, one, two, eighty eight, mill six, five, two, ninety five. So, you know, Mukam, big body, biggest body there in the middle right now with Gabe Rubio out something interesting that they also did today at the end of the zoom call. They, and they sent an email about this as well. Their name is going to begin like starting next week. They're going to start doing an available player availability structure to streamline the communication in terms of injuries and stuff like that. So like each Monday, when they give us the game notes, they're going to give us a list of all the players who have availability affected for that week. They're going to classify them either as out for the season, out for that week's game or questionable for that week's game, as well as what their ailment is. And this is, you know, like it's, it's pretty common, you know, like the injury port in the NFL, pretty common. They've been doing it for years and years and years, college football, never had to. You could, you know, kind of use the OSHA as a shield and say, hey, you know, we don't want to release them, but their name is going to do it. They're also going to do an availability update 60 minutes before kickoff of games this year as well. And they'd kind of been doing that anyway, you know, like if there were players who popped up injured on on game day, you know, like from late in the week and and stuff like that. They've been doing some updates, game day mornings or, you know, whenever before the game as well. This one from, from Doc Jack is jagasau really out until December that seems pretty serious for a pack. I mean, that's the latest update we've got. No one has really asked about him lately. He might be somebody, you know, the way that we ask about within the next few weeks just to see kind of how he's doing. But, you know, it was a torn pectoral slash shoulder. So I think it, you know, might even be more than just the torn peck because it sounded like there was a tear up into the shoulder as well. So, you know, again, maybe we get an update on that in a few weeks kind of kind of follow that up. See how he's going. But as of now, that's, you know, that's, that's the last word that we got on that. So, some other comments for Marcus Freeman getting away from the injuries. One of the questions, I know it's popped up here. I know I've seen it on the new Champions Lounge message board, the premium subscription board at Irish Breakdown. One of the questions that, you know, has popped up from time to time. Where's Mike Dinnbrock going to be on game day on the field or up in the press box? And along with that, where's the quarterback's coach, Gino Godouli going to be? How golden's going to be on the field? And it turns out that Dinnbrock will also be on the field with Godouli upstairs. In terms of who goes up and who stays down, I think it's, it all starts with the, the, the comfort, but also what the coordinators feel is best for them to do their job and to elevate the planet, the offense. And when we were together, Cincinnati, Dinnbrock was on the field, the majority of the years that we were together and Gino was actually up. And so they have a comfort in, in terms of, you know, Dinnbrock being able to be on the field and see what he needs to see to call the game to, to make the necessary changes and adjustments with the offense, but also having somebody upstairs that you have a level of comfort with that can give you the feedback and see things you need to see as a coordinator. All right, I was a coordinator that was on the field for the majority of my career, but you have to have people up in the press box that can give you the information that you need. And, and obviously he feels comfortable with Gino and, and coach Gold and obviously feels comfortable with the guys that are up in the press box for the defense. So there you go. The coordinators are going to be down in the field, Gino Gudule quarterback's coach is up in the box and of course Joe with the follow up, good follow up there Joe, who has the mic for the helmets then the coordinators are going to have the mics for the helmets. So Mike Dembrock will be talking directly to Riley Leonard or whoever the quarterback is how golden will be talking to the most likely the linebacker who is out there on the field as well with the green dot in terms of, and we're going to get to more on that. And then we're going to get to more on that and that in just a second speaking of the green dot stuff but I mean you know press box. It's all personal preference personally, you know, maybe as someone who's, you know, called a lot of games setup and press box I'd rather have the elevated, you know, view because you can see everything and, you know, but it's, it's preference and the coordinators are going to be down there on the field. You know, you know, a Briley Leonard needs to talk to Gino Gudule all you got to do is get on the phone or put on the headset. It's not that hard so that's the way that they're, they're going to go with that coordinators are going to be down in the field. Personally I don't think the field feels great you know I know everyone talks about how close it is and all that kind of stuff but the actual view. I don't think is that great myself now. Speaking of the headset communication because that is going to be a new thing this year. So, Freeman was asked earlier this week about who gets the green dots to have the speaker in your helmet you've got to have a green dot on the back of your helmet that means you're the designated person on the field who can have the headset coaches on the sideline. So, the quarterback is, you know, pretty much always going to be the guy on offense line backers, obviously make the most sense on defense now can only have one green dot on the field at the same, you know, at, at a time. Like Jack Kaiser is going to be the main green dot guy, but guys like Drake Bowen and Kingston Villiamo also have also, you know, they'll, they can have green dots if Kaiser's not on the field so the question that I asked you can only have one green dot on the field at the same time. So does that mean that those other guys like, you know, maybe even Kaiser for that matter but if Kaiser is the main guy, but Bowen and KVA can also potentially have the green dots but they can only have them a green dot on their helmet. If Kaiser's not on the field as well or another green dot on the field as well. Does that mean that these guys are going to have to have two different helmets during the game. Right. And it's not limited to three. You can have as many green dots as you want, but only one can be on the field at a time unless it's the kickoff kickoff you can have everybody in the green dot but the guys with green dots will have two helmets and obviously Jack Kaiser will start the green dot on defense and the guys that have the chance to wear a green dot will wear their second helmet and if something happens where, you know, your Kaiser is out or we put somebody else into to be the green guy, the person wearing a green dot, then their helmets will change but you have to have two helmets for the guy who got green dots. You have to have two helmets for the guys who are wearing the green dots on the defense. So you got that so all those guys have to have two helmets and you know it's like Thurmond Thomas. Yeah, remember him back in the Super Bowl. Like I realize that's been a while maybe some younger people don't. The Thurmond Thomas had a hard enough time keeping track of one helmet during the Super Bowl, let alone two helmets. You've got to have two helmets for the green dot guys because you can't have two green dots on the field at the same time. So that'll be curious like it, you know, are we going to see guys throwing one helmet off and, you know, putting another one on as they're running on the field and that kind of stuff, you know, or vice versa when they're coming off the field and whatever else I'm going to be really curious to see how this looks and she can only have one green dotted helmet guy out there on the field at the same time. But all these linebackers are going to have to have multiple helmets because of the green dots and the helmet communication and the speakers and all that different stuff. Hey Irish Breakdown listeners, it's Urban Meyer. This fall the game changes. 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We obviously want him to get down when he has a chance to get down and limit the hits that a quarterback has to take. He has speed. He has athleticism. He's not afraid to run. He wants to run. He wants to bond his hands. I think that's an added element to your offense. I don't want to see our quarterback running the ball every day. That's not our plan. But to have the ability to have design quarterback runs or truly read defenders with a quarterback that can pull it is something that's going to help our offense have success. Absolutely. It's going to help the offense have success. I think it's going to be a huge factor in this game, especially if there is rain to have a quarterback like Riley Leonard with his running ability and have the ball in his hands. The average 5.6 yards a carry two years ago in 2022 when he played the full season. I don't know. People want to point to his stats last year and all this different stuff. But in the five games before he got hurt against Notre Dame last year, 47 carries for 326 yards. That's in five games. So multiply that out in the pace that he was on. He was on pace to be over 800 yards in a season if he hadn't got hurt at the end of the Notre Dame game. He was averaging 6.9 a carry before that injury. And I just was going to say I wasn't sure if I'd seen DJ post anything. I knew I'd seen DK post something. But DJ was talking about the Connor Wigman numbers. And I went and did the splits. You know, because like you look at the like, what's the knock on Riley Leonard? The accuracy. Well, you can live with the little bit lower accuracy. You know, if you're able to hit some deep shots from time to time to time again, he's not asked to run a West Coast offense. There's not going to be all this precision timing patterns and all this different stuff. That's that's not what he's going to be asked to do. Riley Leonard completed 57% of his passes overall last year. He was 62% before the injury 57% in the two games after the injury. He was almost at 64% in 2022. Flip that over to Connor Wigman, who's going to be asked most likely to run more than he's ever had to run before because he's in Colin Klein's offense now and the quarterback is asked to do a lot of running in this offense unless they're going to change plans and Colin Klein's not going to do that. But Wigman nine career games just under 62% overall 56% is his completion percentage against power five teams, 76% against group of five teams. So he's 20% better against group of five versus power five in the nine games. He has played 62% overall. So it's lower than Riley Leonard, but everyone's acting like Connor, not everyone. You know, I guess the farther south you live in the more in SEC country you live. Everyone's acting like Connor Wigman is the most accurate quarterback in the world. And Riley Leonard, you know, couldn't couldn't hit the open broad side of a barn, you know, with, with a pass if he threw it. But when you look at it, just the numbers and Riley Leonard has played in what almost three times the amount of games that kind of Wigman has played in and his completion percentage is better. And you throw in the fact that he's a dual threat quarterback as Mike Dembrock would tell you earlier this week dual threat. He's not a running quarterback. He's a dual threat quarterback. But so between those two. Riley Leonard is the more accurate quarterback of the two. And he's got the multi dimension of, you know, of being able to run. He is an elite runner in terms of quarterbacks in college football. So Doc says I like you calling him Wigman. I mean, it's like, you know, this is another thing, you know, like everywhere I turn, I see a different pronunciation for his name. Is it Wigman? Is it Wigman? Is it Wigman? Everyone has said it a little bit differently. Carter Carlson included who we had on earlier this week. So some thoughts from Marcus Freeman, final thoughts before the game. Seven thirty kickoff. We are just a little bit more than, as of right now, as I speak, we are 50, a little bit more than 50 hours away from kickoff Notre Dame and Texas A&M. Don't forget Friday countdown to kickoff is going to drop on our IV platforms. It'll be up on YouTube. It will be, you know, of course, on the podcast platforms and all that. It's not a live show because we have to, like one Brian does his own show on Fridays and we have to work around the schedules of my co-hosts, Vince and Jesse. So we're not always recording at the same time. We have to have some flexibility. So the show will be up though and you'll have plenty of time to watch it or listen to it prior to Saturday's game. So look for that coming up. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] At King Super's Pharmacy, Care is making it easy to get vaccinated. 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