You're listening to Irish Illustrated Insider.

It is Thursday, August 22nd.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated.

John Bryce from Football Scoop is here.

And so is Pete Samson from The Athletic.

We are now nine days away from Notre Dame taking on Texas A&M and College Station. We're going to talk a little bit, a little bit about depth charts, a lot of

information that most of you know, but we'll get into some of the ones that are a little bit

more hotly contested as we get down to the last nine days before the opener.

Quarterback, Tim O'Malley, I think we've known that.

We knew that when we found out when we were in El Paso or shortly before that,

that he was going to be coming to Notre Dame, Riley Leonard.

And we're obviously, we're going to talk a lot about Riley Leonard here in segment

two with some questions.

But there was

never any doubt. Steve Angelly put up a good fight, played about as well as he possibly could in

spot duty last year, and then again in the bowl game, there is very little you can do in spring

practice, though, to narrow the gap as long as, you know, as long as the guy that you're bringing in is

still in line to be the quarterback you thought he was when you recruited him.

Yeah, I thought the news you put in Thursday thoughts was relevant for the quarterback

situation. CJ Carr will be Connor Wegman, this week, or this coming week in practice.

I assume when there's a more mobile quarterback, Kenny Minchie

will be that quarterback. They can get some work in that way. Of course, Gino Gaduli mentioned

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