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a by week thursday october 19th i'm tim prehist with tim o'mely from irish illustrator we're

joined by pete sampson of the athletic we don't have a game to talk about this weekend other than

the handful that i'm looking forward to seeing this weekend. Yes.

But coaches are on the road, as expected, after a few days of practice, three days, I think,

that they were together.

Coaches are on the road.

And there's been a lot of questions about, as we reach this point, two things.

One, what bowl game will Notre Dame go to?

And that's where we call him Pete Sampson to lend his expertise.

But mainly, which Notre Dame players currently on the team do we expect back,

which guys are leaving for the NFL, which guys are going to take a 60 or a fifth year,

etc. So we're going to start first with players. It's something that's been asked a lot,

and I'm addressing it in Thursday thoughts today. And I think the guys that were pretty sure are

going to leave.

Or Audrick Estimate, Joe Alt, J.D. Bertrand, Jack Kaiser, and Z. Karel.

Those are the five that I would say.

I don't know if I'd say they're the most likely.

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