This is Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Prester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Samson.

It's Monday, February 24th.

We are 10 days away from the start of spring practice on March 5th.

Notre Dame has, I guess, I don't even even know officially yet whether they've hired Mike Mickens

as the cornerbacks coach and tight ends coach John McNulty.

But they are on board moving forward.

And of course the combine with Notre Dame football, nine Nordane football players starts this Thursday.

Guys, let's start with spring practice.

And we promise next Monday, which is March 2nd,

it will be all about spring football practice. We've been away for a couple weeks, so we're going

to cover a couple of different topics here. But let's start with spring practice in 10 days,

March 5th. They stretch it out longer than they used to. They practice on March 5th and then don't practice again for two weeks.

We're closer to spring practice in 10 days than they are to their second practice.

This is very true.

It would be 12 days after their first practice.

This is very true.

But that's all they do.

And I get it.

You get more meeting time.

It's smart.

Yeah, it is. And I don't know if other schools are doing it that way, but I would assume that they are because that's football. More, more, more. And so that's what they're doing it, starting on March 5th. But is there any, a lot of times there's some controversy, I guess, going into a spring to some extent. I don't really know.

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