Welcome back to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by John Bryce of Irish Illustrated in FootballScoop.com and Pete

Samson from the Athletic.

We are, as Pete just was reminded, about a week away from starting spring ball.

Every once in a while, we all lose a week of life in our in our lives pete that

happened to be recently but yeah one week away from uh the first spring practice and then a couple

weeks thereafter until we have access again and and they reconvene so that's actually been something

brian kelly introduced probably a decade ago right guys that uh get one practice in you can review all that

and you have a little bit of extra time for your spring.

It's manufacturing more time in spring ball.

Yeah, on the day that we officially have an extra day to the shortest month of the year,

Pete realizes he's lost a week somehow.

So there's a great serendipity there.

No, it's an exciting time.

There are a number of exciting newcomers on campus,

as well as guys we're waiting to see what kind of steps forward they take.

We won't see, obviously, very much at all next Thursday,

but I believe we do see the entire practice.

So it'll be good just to see some of the early results of the offseason program and just sort of the way things are trending.

That's, I mean, the four-year anniversary of Kevin Austin Day next week.

And then to see, you know, the early enrollees, we all sort of fixate on like, okay, who looks like they fit in physically, who doesn't.

There are always guys

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