I heard some screaming from Marcus Freeman's office a few minutes before 1 o'clock Eastern time today.

It's because Nordame received a letter of intent signed by Madden Ferramo, the linebacker, the highly coveted linebacker than Noradames from recruiting.

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Manfredo, number 25 in the class for Notre Dame.

We did not expect that until about a few minutes before the press conference started,

and we got an inkling that he could be coming Notre Dame's way.

Kind of ruin the surprise, but I think we could all live with it, you know, that little text message.

But yeah, I'm going to adjust my recruiting rankings as well. I like to add Madden Framo to the top of the class.

It's a huge get. I remember probably three, four months ago.

People are saying they made a list of players. Meadows was on it. Framo was on it.

Who are the guys you want? And everybody kind of came back around to, well, Ferramo, a linebacker's going to have a much bigger impact than a freshman wide receiver.

And I think we saw that this past year. And that group going into next year is, it was even more exciting than this year.

When I said this is an exciting group of linebackers, I cannot wait to see them play together next year.

And, you know, the coaching carousel giveeth and the coaching carousel taketh away.

Notre Dame should probably send a gift basket to Fresno State for hiring one Matt Entz away from USC to be its next head coach. That's been a fascinating process there.

Tim Skipper, the interim had tried to get that job. They've been in very deep talks with Brent

Vegan, the splendid head coach of the Montana State Bobcats who are undefeated and the number

one seat in the FCS playoffs. I don't think they could wait. Brent Vigan's got way too much class

to Bell on his team in the early sessions of the FCS playoffs. They pivot to Matt Entz, a proven

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