Welcome back, everybody, another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Priester.

It's Monday, July 8th.

I'm joined by Tim O'Malley of Irish Illustrated.

And Pete Sampson of the Athletic, we are 23 days away from the first Norning football

practice on July 30th. I think we'll meet with

Marcus Freeman and get rolling. But not a, well, I guess there is a little bit of breaking news

or about to be breaking news as Nordame talks about their safety position in class of 2025.

Nordame received a verbal commitment from Jadon Blair from North Carolina,

long prospect, big time hitter.

Nothing is official with Ivan Taylor yet, but that is expected to go away from

Notre Dame and Ivan Taylor.

We expect to end up at Michigan.

But before we get into that, I don't know, it was a few days ago that the Manning Passing Academy wrapped up in Riley Leonard was the most accurate quarterback there, which,

you know, you're throwing against air.

It's not live.

It doesn't prove anything, but it's a heck of a lot better that he finished number one than number three or four, including he was in the finals with Connor Wegman, the quarterback at Texas, N&M that he'll be squaring off on against on August 31st.

My take from that, him winning that is I much, I care more that he won the accuracy

competition than if he won an agility competition that I knew he could win.

Yeah, true. Yeah, true.

Vertical leap, but he out jumped other quarterbacks in the vertically. I think it's good that,

hey, they pass against air at these things. You can't do anything but pass against air at these things. So it's, you can't do anything but pass against air at these things.

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