All right, Brian, and part three of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandul.

We're going to take a big picture look at Miami.

And we're going to talk about that.

They're Notre Dame's first opponent on 2025 schedule.

They will be playing down in Miami, Florida, in Hard Rock Stadium. When we start to

look at Miami, I think it's important to begin how they enter this game. Let's take a look

back at the 2024 season. A lot of good, did not end the way that they wanted it to. Can

Mario Cristobal and the rest of this program use that to fuel them and continue to

ascend in 2025 or is how they ended the season just to kind of a preview of things to come

this year for him, Brian.

I think that's a really important question.

The way, it's interesting how the way a season ends can so much determine how your team is perceived

in the offseason and and the way that Miami's season ended with losing what three of their

last final four games I believe has kind of left this a little bit of just a, like a disappointing taste in your mouth about the season,

but it was still a very good step in the right direction season for Miami.

You know, you're talking about a team in,

you know, Mara Christofal's first two years.

They went five and seven in year one.

They went seven and six in year two.

I had some, some not so good moments and had some good moments.

I mean, you look at their 2020 season, first year there.

You know, they lose to Texas A&M.

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