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I'm Pete Sampson with Tim Priestern and Tim O'Malley.

Bit of a weekend for Notre Dame football.

Six arrests, two separate incidents, one dismissal, one indefinite suspension,

and four players facing internal discipline.

If you're listening to this podcast, you probably know what happened, but the players involved,

Max Redfield dismissed, Devin Butler indefinitely suspended.

Tavon, Coney, K.J. Stefferson, Dexter Williams, Ashald and White, all facing internal discipline, which does not spare them from Notre Dame's Office of Community Standards, formerly Res Life.

But let's just jump into the Redfield stuff. He's out for Notre Dame football. 22 starts a position of free safety with really no depth at all,

and literally zero at game experience. Let's talk football first, and then we can get into

Redfield as sort of a personality on the roster and what this means we're going for. But from a

football perspective, how does this change the way you see Notre Dame season?

It changes for me the first game a little because you want the 22 starts, 23 starts,

and your starting lineup down there in front of 98,000 in Texas.

I don't know how much it changes the season because, and I'm going to let Tim's going to expand on this, but I don't know what he did all that well going in. Now, he's a senior and guys that did not have great careers before their senior year and then really blossom are there are many. They're plentiful at Notre Dame and Romeo Corr and Chris Brown last year were much better players, but as seniors than they were before.

And I think Max Redfield had a chance to be a solid player.

But there was no proof of it.

There was no proof whatsoever that was going to happen.

I do think it affects things because now they have to have a new starting free safety,

whether it's a strong safety moving or a freshman, and he would have been better off down there against Texas.

I don't think the moving of the strong safety is the right move. First of all,

Drew Tranquil is, by his own admission, barely athletic enough to be a, you know,

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