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Irish Illustrated Insider: Notre Dame Football's Spring Evaluations, Fall Flashbacks, and Floor-to-Ceiling Potential

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🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Irish Illustrated Insider delves into Notre Dame's running back trio, the offense's likely areas of improvement, X-factors on both sides for a Playoff run, and evaluate the wide receiver room's potential, We also discuss Niele Ivey's squad's improvement through season's end, The Shot heard around NCAA Tournament (history), and debate if Notre Dame could disappoint as did two of last year's pre-season football favorites.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

0:05.7

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester, Andrew Mentock of Irish Illustrated.

0:09.5

We are a weekend removed from our last media access period, one that included two

0:13.9

handfuls of wide receivers and the three running backs currently tasked with replacing Jeremiah

0:18.2

and Janari and Price and their position coaches, Mike Brown and Joanne Sider. So guys, before we're getting a newer news, I wanted to kind of review Friday. Interviews with Mike Brown, a heck of a lot of wide receivers that came out together. And then Joanne Sider, Tim will throw it to you first. I know we're all kind of writing on the wide receivers and we had the whole double

0:37.8

handful come out at the same time. So we were scrambling a little bit. But there's a lot of

0:40.9

wide receivers to talk to because finally they have a big wide receiver. Yeah. Yeah, we were bombarded

0:46.2

by wide receivers the other day. There was no way from the media core upstairs to keep up with it.

0:51.8

It was like a 2004 Notre Dame secondary. We were being bombarded by wide receivers.

0:56.5

No, it was a great opportunity to get to know some of those guys.

1:00.9

I talked to Michael Gilbert.

1:02.6

I'd never really talked to Michael Gilbert with anything that was in depth.

1:07.4

But, you know, the guy away, I keep coming away from these interviews and saying,

1:12.6

we still don't, we still haven't seen anything yet, but all we hear is great things is Nolan James

1:18.6

Jr. the runback. I mean, Joanne Seider said he's the most mature kid I've ever been around.

1:24.8

He talked about having a, he said, he mentioned man crush just because he's so prepared.

1:30.3

He's so prepared for everything.

1:33.1

And we haven't seen them like you, you guys haven't seen a single play on the practice

1:37.8

field where it's like blue goal game.

1:41.0

Blue goal game last year.

1:43.2

He looked really good.

1:44.0

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was against the threes and the one of the old joke putting you, you're putting your pen down time of the day. Yeah, it was. No. Nolan James Jr. is as committed to the cause as C.J. Carr, and that's saying a lot. Their lives revolve around being student athletes, their lives revolve around being prepared

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