This is Irish Illustrated insider Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

It's Monday, June 21st.

We've been gone for a couple weeks.

We are back and some recruiting news, some 12-team playoff proposal news.

But let's start with the recruiting news.

Neu Afei, Tui Alamaka, the linebacker who's been verbally committed in our name for quite some time.

He's certainly been leading in that direction for quite some time.

And I mean, I think it's just it was just a matter of an announcement.

He visited, of course, and committed.

And it's another real quality linebacker, who I think has really improved his body here in recent months.

Add him to the list of Marcus Freeman catches.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's just Freeman is, this was kind of one of those commitments and josh burnham a little

bit and tyson for it a little bit but i i feel like this is the commitment that most sort of encapsures

the marcus freeman difference and what he's bringing to the table at notre dame because this

this is just not a prospect.

I don't think Notre Dame gets otherwise.

And it's, you know, we can discuss this later, but, you know, he's a Notre Dame type of kid

that I don't think Notre Dame really was going to get before, which I think speaks to the

fact that there are more

Notre Dame fits or Notre Dame types kids out there than I think sometimes Notre Dame fans

realize, but you have to work your ass off to get them.

And I think Freeman did with Kui Alamaka.

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