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to another edition of irish illustrated insider the first of two this week blue gold game week

it's monday april 17th i'm tim prester with tim o'm ellenlly from irish illustrated joined by

pete sampson of the athletic guys on sat. We had an opportunity to speak with Coach Freeman,

Coach Parker,

Coach Golden.

We discussed a variety of things,

including Caleb Smith's retirement from football

and the potential of Lorenzo Stiles on the defensive side of the ball.

We'll get into all of that.

But just your impressions,

Tim O'Malley,

of our conversations with the coaches. I'll get into all of that. But just your impressions, Tim O'Malley of our conversations

with the coaches. I thought it was, there's the interesting difference between Coach Freeman

kind of making fun of us for seeing one rep of Lorenzo Stiles and the other, but, yeah, well, and the

other two saying, we'd love to have him and such as like that because it is, it is more of a story than I was going to give any credence to in that here's there's two things that have to be true.

He's not elevating himself at wide receiver this spring.

They like Chris Tyree and Jaden Thomas more and probably Tobias Maryweather more.

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