Irish Illustrated Insider, April 9th, Tim Priester and Tim O'Malley from Irish

Illustrated with Pete Sampson from the athletic.

Welcome, everybody, our first podcast in two weeks.

We had an opportunity to speak with Brian Kelly on Wednesday, giving a perspective on what he's doing on a daily basis, how they're trying to keep things in order and still plan moving ahead.

But obviously, there are a lot of questions that are unanswered.

One of the things that we'll be addressing here in segment one, Pete and Tim both had the opportunity to interview Matt Bayliss the other day.

And that's probably the more interesting news of the last two days.

But I thought there were some good stuff from Brian Kelly.

Tim and I talked about it yesterday in our instant analysis.

But maybe you guys, before we get into Brian Kelly, maybe you guys should kind of take over and talk about the conversation that you had with Matt Bales a couple days ago.

Yeah, it was like a podcast with a really informed Notre Dame person.

Yeah, it's good. It's good. I mean, it was insightful here, it's fun.

That was good.

I mean, it was insightful about, you know, sort of the bands that they're using, but also, I think, I mean, that was the way that I wrote it was like, the bands are one thing, but it was, it had much more to do with, like, giving the roster some kind of connectivity where they can all do one thing because that's that's been a real challenge i think in in these days um so that i mean that was

kind of insightful um you know the fact that he said 20 25 percent of the roster uh had stay at

or work at home gym type stuff was interesting.

I was kind of curious like what that percentage would have been because I think

Notre Dame is probably on the high end nationally and to only be in the 20% range.

Yeah.

I take that and I think you're probably right that they're on the high end nationally,

but I take that low number because I thought there'd be a higher number when you asked

that question. I thought it was going to be, oh, about 50%, you know, I take that to mean in the modern

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