Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. It is Monday, March 24th, and today we have the full crew.

Tim Priest of Irish Illustrated, Pete Sampson of the Athletic, John Bryce of Football Scoop and Irish Illustrated, and I am Tim O'Malley. And since we last spoke, Notre Dame women's have advanced to the Sweet 16 as expected. Notre Dame has had a transfer portal entry from the men's side.

They were not involved in the Sweet 16 that we watched four games of non-up sets guys over the weekend,

but we also were able to talk some football with Jaywan Sider and coach Gino Godouli

and some early enroly offensive players and priestures.

Of all those conversations, what's one you'd kind of like to hit on first that stuck with you over the weekend?

Maybe not one that everybody is interested to hear first.

But I thought Gibran Payne would be an interesting guy to speak with.

And he was.

And then you come to find out after talking to Jay Juan Cider that Cider had recruited him.

He kind of fell by the wayside when two guys by the name of Nicholas Singleton and K. Tron

Ellen decided to go to Penn State.

But, you know, there's, of course, Gibran Payne is coming back from the knee injury.

And, yeah, there's initial concern when he hears that D.L. McCullough is leaving for the NFL

because that was the guy that brought him to Notre Dame from IU with him.

But then in short order, he found out of Jay,

about Jaywant cider coming to Notre Dame.

He's like, okay, well, that'll work because he had a good relationship with him

during the recruiting process.

It's just that Singleton and Ellen trumped him, of course,

when it came to the two running backs at Penn State settled on that season.

You know, from what I found interesting with Sider was, well, first of all, I liked how

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