You're listening to Irish Illustrated Insider. It's Thursday, December 23rd. Merry Christmas to all.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson. Our last podcast before we all head west to the festival when Nornyam takes on Oklahoma State next Saturday.

Guys, we've had an opportunity last three days.

Irish Illustrated has had several instant analysis for our subscribers.

And we've had a lot of access to assistant coaches that we hadn't before at

Marcus Freeman yesterday and some, a couple of interesting player interviews.

Pete, let me start with you. Just some of the, some of the highlights are what's on your mind

from the last three days and probably in particular, Marcus Freeman from yesterday.

I liked his sort of take on hiring a defensive coordinator because so often you hear about whether it's the same system or a different

system, like the players have to pick up different terminologies, yada, yada.

And he's like, no, no, no, no, no.

Like that's a coordinator's job.

Like let's let's make it hard on the coordinator and easy on the players.

So I thought that was kind of insightful.

You know, he didn't get into the offensive side of the ball in terms of coaching at all.

But it's refreshing how forthright about how little he knows about the offense is.

You know, it doesn't pretend to be an expert on offense, which probably is a good sign for Tommy Reese and, you know,

backs up the autonomy part of him sort of being promoted even though he's in the same job.

But I think that that was an attractive part for Reese to stay.

So it's, you know, I think he's, Marcus Freeman has done a pretty nice job of like that part

of the job, which is a really, really small part of it.

But when that's sort of how the public gets to know you, it's important to be good at that.

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