Gentlemen, in part four, today's show here in the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our friends over at Fandual.

We have our friend Brian Smith joining us to talk a little bit of recruiting, and then hopefully you stick around for the mailbag for a little bit, Brian.

But good to have you on here, man.

You're good now. You're good now. You're muted.'re muted you're good oh my bad what's going on fellas

everybody good oh all right today sir oh yeah yeah it's busiest day of the year for me brian i was gonna ask

you is this still like christmas for you man i noticed it's kind of like that when we were younger it

was like it was like christmas man signing day was like christmas is it still like that for you or man? I noticed this is kind of like that when we were younger. It was like, it was like Christmas, man. Signing Day was like Christmas. Is it still like that for you or is it more just a job now? Uh, it's somewhere in between back 25 years ago. We didn't have the same access to information. Mm-hmm. So a lot of stuff. When most guys weren't committed on signing day, we were going to find out on signing day where guys were going.

Yeah, it's totally different.

Now, it's a circumstance where I'm told something the night before, then that kid makes two different decisions thereafter.

All for reasons that I wouldn't advise.

So I'll leave it at that.

I'm in the NIL space and seven-on-seven world pretty heavy now.

And some of the stuff I'm told makes me want to vomit.

Yes.

Yep.

It ain't a great process.

So, Brian, let's dive into the Notre Dame class.

We wanted to bring you on and give you a chance.

You and I have known each other a very long time.

We've talked a lot over the years, agreed on a lot, disagreed on some things.

And I always think you bring great insight to recruiting at Notre Dame.

And I wanted to get you on and just first of all, get your overall thoughts on this class. I mean, you're looking

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