This is Irish Illustrated Insider with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated and Pete Sampson from the Athletic.

I'm Tim Priester from Irish Illustrated.

We've been gone for a while in terms of our podcasts.

We've been doing our one, two, three stuff.

But it's the first podcast in a while, and quite a bit has happened.

Of course, Will Shipley chose Clemson over Notre Dame.

Most recently, Notre Dame received great news.

I think great news from NC State cornerback Nick McLeod.

He'll be a grad transfer in Notre Dame, still waiting on Trevor Spates.

He'll choose between Notre Dame and Rice.

But we, of course, need to address the Shipley situation in Nordheim's running back situation.

But I do want to talk about Nick McLeod and what he means to Notre Dame.

He's such an area of...

It's a perfect replacement, right?

Yeah.

The area of need and getting talent at that area of need,

the best off-season news you can have

other than getting a five-star running back, I suppose.

But, I mean, Nick McLeod can start.

We did not think two months ago they'd be bringing in a guy that would start at a position

of need, right?

No, I didn't.

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