This is Irish Illustrated insider Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley, Pete Sampson, a couple days after Norden's 24 to 13 loss to Cincinnati.

You know, as I went through the game and looked at a lot of aspects of it, and I came away leaving the stadium feeling this way.

But I mean, Luke Fickle and the staff,

Cincinnati, I thought Cincinnati outplayed Nordame. I thought they outcoached them. They came

into Nordame Stadium and deserved to win a football game from start to finish. Yeah, I agree.

I thought that fickle and his staff did an excellent job.

You know, how they, and I think a lot of things they did were not like whiz bang.

Oh, I didn't see that coming.

Like, we knew Desmond Ritter was a threat running the ball in, you know, key situations.

We knew Desmond Ritter was a threat pushing the ball vertically, you know, key situations. We knew Desmerner was a threat pushing the ball vertically.

Brian Kelly knew that as well.

So they, Cincinnati knows who it is.

I'm not saying Notre Dame doesn't, but they definitely don't have the clear identity of this is what we are.

This is what we do well in a way that Cincinnati does. And that, that is a, that's a nod, you got to make that a nod to

coaching. Yeah, knowing that, I mean, knowing that Desmond Ritters, your starting quarterback,

help solidify and answer a lot of those questions about knowing who you are, as the four-year

starter. Tim?

Yeah, I mean, I think I agree that Cincinnati played better, and I also feel like Cincinnati did not play worse. They didn't come close to beating themselves, which Notre Dame did

when you have your graduate senior quarterback. Throw a ridiculous freshman year of high school pick at the goal line that you would get

you pulled from any practice and you know you're a really good kick returner obviously lost

concentration on one there there's two plays noor name gives them Cincinnati takes another

with the play on tyler buckner that's what the bear cats do that's what notre name does to

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