Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock.

I'm Pete Sampson, joined by Matt Fortuna.

It's been a minute since our last episode.

It has.

It was like, uh, we did four in a week. So I think that we sort of like let. since our last episode. It was like, because we did four in a week.

So I think that we sort of like,

we let last week unfold before reconvening the pod here.

Marcus Freeman is officially Notre Dame's head coach.

He was introduced at a press conference that, you know,

there was a lot of pomp and circumstance around it,

but it was well produced and well done, especially in contrast to a certain Notre Dame

rivals introductory press conference with Lincoln Riley at USC.

Then Marcus goes out on the road recruiting for an entire week.

The class basically holds together.

We will see if it gets all the way there

over the line on Wednesday with National Signing Day. And then last weekend, the first

two practices of the new era, I was there there on Sunday. Talk to Marcus and Myron

Tango, Aloha, Mosa, and Jared Patterson after the fact. But Matt, I mean, from a distance a little bit, we have a lot to recap.

We can talk about potential staff additions, you know, where things are going, you know,

to the organization or in football.

Like, how have you sort of processed, okay, this is the first time head coach.

How does it look like

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