One day shy of two months since Nordame played for the national title against Ohio State,

Nordame Open spring practice today here on Wednesday, March 19th, Tim Prester with Tim O'Malley

and John Bryson.

Guys, we only got four periods to observe, and I feel like we have a ton to talk about not only today, but in

tomorrow's Irish Illustrated Insider podcast. We saw some dynamic stretching as well. We did see that.

But I thought there was actually, there's one quick point you made, Tim Priester, about dynamic

stretching because they don't put guys that aren't respected in the front. And Jason O'Neilley,

welcome back to the program, was actually in the front row of that, and that is not something you do. The front row is reserved for the Jack

Keisers and J.D. Bertrans of the world. So he is back in good standing with the program. I thought

he looked a little bigger. I don't really mean to lead with Anya here,

but he could become an important player. As you pointed out a few times, he was able to hit the

ground running probably with Lauren Landau because he was not involved in any of the practices.

Yeah, he was not part of that group that Marcus Freeman again reiterated today that was staggered

into winter conditioning in Notre Dame had a very strategic plan that we've outlined previously on the

podcast about how it implemented the guys into the offseason program, basically based on how many

snaps they played in that marathon, 2024 season. But Anya, to your all's point, seeing him today,

and then as I noted a couple of weeks ago, I saw him at one of the men's basketball games.

I thought he looks physically bigger.

I thought particularly his upper body looked bigger.

And so you hope that that's really good weight that he's added, really good mass and strength that he's added.

He can be certainly, he can follow the example of Gabriel Rubio, quite honestly, when Rubio was not able to be with the program last spring and worked his way back and came back to be an incredibly integral part of the defensive line on that run to the CFP runner-up finish.

So Olney looked good.

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