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Irish Illustrated Insider: Building a Staff, and a Future Roster, at Notre Dame

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3.9669 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Irish Illustrated Insider discusses the hiring of a running backs coach and the current search for a new general manager. We also try to identify leadership among the 2025 roster and examine which players must, could, and should step to the fore this spring.

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0:00.0

Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider with Tim O'Malley.

0:07.7

I'm Tim Priester from Irish Illustrated, John Bryce of Football Scoot, Pete Samson of the Athletic,

0:13.5

and Nordame does indeed have a new running backs coach, or we anticipate that being announced

0:18.6

here shortly.

0:19.5

They do not have a general manager

0:21.2

lined up. We'll talk about that as well. But after a bit of speculation, as to who nor do they

0:28.5

might land at running backs coach, they went out and landed a really good one. Or so it appears,

0:33.7

Penn State running backs coach, Juan Cider. It will be named.

0:38.7

Don't ask for a timetable, but it should happen in fairly short order.

0:43.4

He has been named or will be named Nordames running backs coach to replace Dillon

0:47.6

McCullough.

0:49.3

That's a pretty good one.

0:50.6

I mean, you know, I think Nick Singleton was going to be a good running back

0:54.2

regardless. I didn't know a whole lot about Ketron Ellen coming into Penn State, but those two guys

1:00.9

are quality running backs. This is a guy with an excellent reputation of recruiting in the state

1:05.6

of Florida, which Nordame has always liked dipping into in the past. So that spot has been filled on the Nordheim coaching staff, Tim O'Malley.

1:14.9

You know when I said, I think it's really hard for people on the outside to know how good a position coach is,

1:20.0

you can surmise on this one.

1:21.6

You can do a pretty good job, try to figure it out from his track record.

1:24.4

Also, he leaves the best returning tandem in the country to join the best

1:28.8

running back in the country. So he knows what he's doing as well. He has a pretty good idea of

1:33.7

when he might want to leave. But yeah, that's the way those guys ran. The most important thing for me

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