Welcome back to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley today joined by Irish Illustrated's owner Tim Priester and John

Bryce, whose work you can read and listen to at FootballScoop.com and Irish Illustrated.

Guys, when we gathered last for a press conference, Rob Hunt stole the show.

I think a couple of podcasts and J.B.'s

detailed story on the injury situation heading into the spring has been covered.

I want to circle back kind of quickly because I think we sure did want to hear about a GM.

And when Mike Martin took the stand or took to the podium, we enjoyed him.

But he got the short shrift a little bit last week because Rob Hunt gave

us more personnel updates than I can recall getting at a press conference in my lifetime. Tim Preister,

he probably got more someday, but I'm not sure when it's been since. No, I actually reached out

to Rob Hunt and said, thanks for doing that. We really appreciate that because it really gives

his perspective going into the spring that and it's

it serves Notre Dame too because Marcus Freeman will that will be a lot of questions that

Marcus Freeman doesn't get especially the the handful of guys that are frontline players that

were you know they'll just pace them a little bit considering that the season went so deep but Mike Martin we did touch upon him a little bit, considering that the season went so deep.

But Mike Martin, we did touch upon him a little bit the other day.

And as I went through my notes again, I just, I just was impressed with how impressed he is with Notre Dame.

I think he's finding things out about Notre Dame that he didn't know, you know, previously.

And he did admit, I didn't know, you know, about the networking of Notre Dame that he didn't know, you know, previously. And he did admit I didn't know, you know, about the networking at Notre Dame,

which anybody that has been a part of Notre Dame, that's a term that's used very frequently.

It's a big part of what Notre Dame is all about, the Notre Dame Network and

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