Tim O'Malley with Tim Priester from Irish Illustrated.

It's Irish Illustrated insider joining us Pete Samson from the Athletic.

It's Thursday, August 20th.

And we need to speak quickly before something changes and makes what we are about to record obsolete.

But Nordane football is on pause as of yesterday,

a spike in COVID-19 positive tests has put the campus into an online mode. And Nordian football,

no practice on Wednesday, waiting to hear about what might happen Thursday as test results

come back from the latest run of test with the football team.

But Nordic football on pause, and it feels like the crossroads again, which we've talked about on a couple of occasions.

Yeah, we're just permanently stuck in this limbo state, right?

It's, I mean, they tested on Monday that was expected.

Then the, the campus sort of shuts down.

And then they test again on Wednesday.

And so we're sitting here waiting to, to figure out what the,

the nature of those tests are.

Because, you know, if,

if Notre Dame football is going to mirror the campus at large,

they're, they're in trouble.

And if they continue to sort of run counter to that, if their positivity rate is much lower than the student body in general, then they continue to have a chance.

But that's going to be a big news drop later today.

And I realize people on social media hate when you post anything about testing numbers.

But that's where we are right now.

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