Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider, our first of two podcasts in a 24-hour span that will book in the start of spring practice at Notre Dame.

I'm Tim O'Malley joined today by Tim Priester and Drew Mentock of Irish Illustrated, John Bryce of USA Today.

And guys, thanks to Rob Hunt, we don't have to make this podcast about speculation and projections.

We promised to have plenty of that anyway, but the

annual most informative 12 minutes of our lives happened yesterday. Rob Hunt running down.

Who is limited and who is out and who is out just for tomorrow in spring practice. Let's

not bury the lead. The worst news, of course, was that we have been even a little worse than I think we

had hinted at over the last, not hinted at, stated over the last six months as Charles Joges's

situation, we did not expect him back in the summer. I did expect kind of a more positive view,

Tim Priestur, for maybe September 1st than we got yesterday. Yeah. Well, first of all, you know,

plot is for the University of Nordame for providing Rob Hunt his availability yesterday.

This is that's it's huge for us and it does eliminate a lot of the speculation. We appreciate that.

But yeah, I, you know, I don't know. I mean, I didn't know that he was about to have a fifth operation

you know i thought some of the reactions to you guys instant analysis yesterday were interesting

because it was all about injuries and so you're going to have some some negative news but yeah

that's that's significant i you know look look, I'm pulling for the guy.

It may not be 2026.

It may be 2027.

You know, and I think Nordaim can, I think we have a question here.

We'll talk about what that offensive line is going to look at.

I thought Sullivan Absher made significant strides the last month of the season.

So you may have to go in that direction.

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