Welcome to the show.

It's I.B. Countdown to kickoff, along with Vince the Dario, Sean Steyers.

We get ready for Notre Dame and Stanford this weekend after Notre Dame's buy week

last week. Vince, do you think this buy came at just the right time for the Irish?

I would say if this was the beginning of the season and you said, you know, after game five,

they're going to have a buy. I was like, I don't know, felt a little early.

A little soon.

Yeah, I don't, I don't know.

I didn't really have an opinion, I guess, either way.

But the way the season has been going and that way the season has gone up to this point

and with kind of the mash unit and, you know injuries and all the i mean it could not have come

at a better time so this is one of the most ideal buy weeks that i can remember from an injury

standpoint from a you know maybe reset the clock a little bit and then the way the rest of the season

plays out you got like a three game stretch, another bye, and then like last four.

So I think it fits perfectly right where it is.

I think so too, especially if you're going to have two by weeks.

And this is the second year in a row they've got two by weeks.

And I'm not exactly sure why it worked out this way.

You know, just I guess it's when people could fit their games in and stuff like that.

But, I mean, we're going to get through the injuries here in a minute.

And obviously, there's a pretty long list of injuries that the Irish have.

But, you know, like Riley Leonard, with all the running that he does, is, is banged up to

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