Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider.

It's April 11th, Monday, Tim Priester and Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrate, Pete Sampson, back with us from the athletic.

And the other day, we had an opportunity to talk to the three most powerful names on the Nordane football staff, Marcus Freeman, L. Golden,

Tommy Reese.

Gentlemen, why don't you start with your thoughts on our discussions with the three top coaches

at Nordame?

I very much think I have been part of the 104 play scrimmage that they would have been

better.

That would have been the best thing possible. did take away from that scrimmage though

because I think they're really

he is not shying away from competition

finding out what

what he has leaving this spring

I think it's a great idea I know every time

somebody gets hurt

someone else gets mad that they're hitting too much in the sport of football six

months before the season was played.

So my takeaway is I like the compete level Freeman is bringing to the team.

It seems to be not just, let's put it this way.

We used to always joke about the previous thing with Brian Kelly where they're thudding or they're, you know, they're thudding the runner.

Like, what's thudding the runner? Well, we hit it with a pad as hard as we can. Okay. All right. That sounds like it's going from a head coach that is otherwise absolutely adored by his players to go out

and test them to compete the whole time. I would agree with that. I think it's worth noting that the

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