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The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Bruce Feldman on Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman & the "Freaks List"

The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Athletic

Sports News, Sports, News, Football

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Pete Sampson and Matt Fortuna welcome Bruce Feldman to the show to discuss his annual "Freaks List". Plus, Bruce gives his take on new Head Coach Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame's 2022 season outlook.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock. I'm Peteampson, Knee Deep in training camp and seasonal allergies

0:21.9

here in South Bend, Matt Fortuna in Chicago, my co-host. And then special guest today, it is the

0:28.4

season for incredible weight room numbers. So that's where Bruce Feldman's area of expertise is.

0:35.6

Freakslist came out this week. Bruce, thanks for being with us. And I guess

0:39.4

I think the freaks list is always a great read. I think for the first time in a few years,

0:45.3

when I scanned it, I wasn't sure which Notre Dame gas were going to be on it because it wasn't,

0:49.6

there's not a Kyle Hamilton, there's not a Jeremiah Wusu Kormoa. So I was interested in when you're

0:54.0

putting that

0:54.5

together if you knew a whole lot about Riley Mills or Lorenzo Stiles or even Cam Hart when you got

1:00.8

started. I did not, styles I knew of because, you know, his second generation and I remember the name.

1:09.1

Cam Hart, I kind of knew the name, but I didn't know the specifics.

1:13.1

Riley Mills was the one that was the double-take guy when the ND staff sent me kind of a list of the workout numbers.

1:21.9

And it's not the whole roster.

1:25.8

It's probably seven or eight guys and lenzies on there because

1:29.2

of his speed obviously and tiris on there because of his speed although not quite to the degree

1:33.3

maybe i was expecting but then i was like you know like i didn't really i noticed riley mills at

1:41.0

first but i was like i got to look at this guy a little more and then i have to kind of start to get into it a little. And you guys, you know, and you guys would know this certainly way better than me, but he's either from the rival school of Tommy Reese or from the same school, right? There's some kind of. Same school. Yeah. So the more I looked, I was like, okay, this is a really interesting guy.

2:02.4

And in fact, I did a podcast for PFF yesterday.

2:07.2

And they asked me, give me somebody on this list who you think will be a breakout player.

2:10.9

And a lot of these guys are really good players already.

2:13.5

Or their, you know, Collagia Cantsey at Pitt is a first-team all-ACC player.

2:18.7

He's probably better than people realize, even that.

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