Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. It is Monday, June 1st. May did not fly by. May kind of crawl by, but that means the offseason is two-thirds of the way done, guys. I am Tim O'Malley, joined by Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated Pete Samson, the Athletic. And after a good run, Notre Dame's spring sports season has ended. We talked about lacrosse.

Losing to Princeton last week, baseball.

We'll get a little post-mortem from baseball here after the break from Tim Priester.

But guys, I wanted to jump into football because, Priester, you did your annual, you said 16th annual, first-rate series.

Always good time to start with the quarterbacks, especially this year, because for the first time, we have verified this.

Notre Dame is number one in your quarterback list, and it's because they have a, A, what we perceive to be a great quarterback, and B, he only has a couple of competitors.

Yeah, really, just a small handful of competitors to Dien Mensa from from Duke now with

Miami I mean you could make an argument for him just because of the volume last

year but you know I mean I you have it's a balancing act you have to you have to

juggle what they did last year and and try to to project what they're going to do this year.

And I think, you know, I put C.J. Carr ahead of Darien Mensa, and I would have put

Mentsa ahead of car if I felt like he deserved it. But I, the deciding factor for me is the ceiling for

C.J. Carr, whereas I think Dary and Mentson may be at his ceiling. We'll see how his career develops

this year and then moving on to the next level. But yeah, C.J. Car and Northerdames quarterback

situation, or C.J. Carr, I should say, is the reason why we have Noroname number one. And I

don't think too many people would dispute that. Where'd you have Jaden Maiavo?

Well, that's what I'm saying.

It was weird going through this, that you see USC and your first reaction is to grab that

stat and write it down, but you're skipping over that this year.

But where would he have been?

He would have been right there with Mensa.

Yeah, I think I'd think I put my Ava over Mensa.

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