Irish Breakdown Nation.

Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

Happy Thursday.

We're a day away from Friday.

We are one day closer to Notre Dame kicking off on August 31st down in Miami against the hurricanes.

But before we get there, we have a lot of topics to discuss.

A lot of topics to discuss.

But before we can start diving into the team and

individual position groups, today we're going to talk big picture about something. And it's at

Notre Dame and Marcus Freeman still have a lot of respect to be earned despite their magical

2024 season where they went on a national title run, ended a 31 year major bullwind drought,

and then just to put a little bit of a cherry on top, they did it again seven days later.

You would think that there would be a lot more respect put on Notre Dame's name and the

Golden Domas in South Bend, but unfortunately that's not the case.

So in part one of today's show, we're going to

focus on the team specifically. We're going to talk through where Notre Dame ranks in some of

the post-spring top 25s that we've seen come out. I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen them on

social media. We're also going to look at some draft boards and position rankings and see where some Notre Dame

players fall on there. And then we're going to talk through just, what does Notre Dame need to do

to get into the respect ranks that some of these other programs have had? We're going to talk

about what perceptions still exist about Notre Dame. And then in part two of today's show,

we're going to talk about that from a Marcus

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