Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider. It's Thursday,

December 14th, Notre Dame, that much closer, what, 15 days now, Tim O'Malley. It's Tim

Prister and Tim O'Malley Day, two-man booth from Irish Illustrated 15 days from the uh the bowl game coming up and

the sun bowl is what they call that bowl game and uh a bunch of news rley leonard's official

mitch mitch jeter is official r j oben is official jack kaiser's coming back we have some other stuff to discuss here in segment one before we get to burning up the boards.

But Riley Leonard is going to come to Notre Dame.

We've known that for a couple of weeks.

It was, I don't know what was a better or worse kept secret that or Sam Hartman last year.

It all came to fruition in

december i think this one has become public a quite a bit sooner than sam hartman but

riley lincoln tim o'malley is nor dames's quarterback in 2024 yeah there used to be the auspices

of hushush going on with the portal, but there is no such thing anymore.

We don't have a lot of time to discuss Riley Leonard.

We've discussed in the past.

I like the addition for Notre Dame. I don't think it's a home run.

I think it's the best hit they could get.

And when I asked before, I thought Sam Hartman at the time was a better quarterback, better quarterback than Riley Leonard.

But Riley Leonard has a chance to surpass Sam Hartman. That's for sure in the real world. I mean,

I know this is our podcast, but who the hell cares what we think? You know, we thought Sam Hartman would be better than he was. Maybe Riley. That'll be better than I think he is. This is all still speculation. And I think,

and obviously he's a much different quarterback. He's going to, he is going to be a tough runner.

He's a heck of a runner because Notre Dame had a plan for him. And he's, he still made him pay with his legs.

Well, Tim, and Riley Leonard has a chance to work with a receiving corps that should be better with the just the addition of some veteran

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