It is Monday, January 19th, and this is Irish Illustrated Insider.

Unique episode today.

It's the first podcast, I believe, of its kind, since the great winds of the Arctic came

and through a permafrost all over the world, shuddering us all inside for eternity.

Actually, guys, I'm being told us just South Bend, so we're okay.

Everybody else is out there listening. Join today. I'm Tim O'Malley Tim Priester virus illustrator drewman tiker virus illustrated and guys it's a good thing that the world is not frozen over because noreen got a pretty good portal hall to go with a great recruiting hall that together they are ranked number one pending I like that new ranking system Tim prester yeah recruiting plus portal makes a lot more sense than one or the other because that's all that matters. And I've been talking too much now. I'm going to turn over to you guys. The portal is closed-ish, closed almost, closed adjacent, eight guys in. And we think that will be it unless there's some grand transfer or PWA walk-on activity in the future., and I believe players who have entered the portal could still potentially come too. So I know the, and then the players who, after tonight's game in the national championship, I think will have five days to enter, like Bryce said on a recent podcast, too. So maybe there's some movement there, but I agree, probably not. And yeah, I mean, Nortem definitely met all their needs. I know it may be not the level of experience of like a Malachi fields or anything like that, but you have a lot of upside with their players. And I mean, getting two defensive tackles, two talented wide receivers and a kicker were must in this, this group. And then throwing the defensive backs to make the strongest unit on the

field even stronger. I think there's a lot to be excited about, even if there is only one guy

who's really kind of a proven commodity at this point. Yeah, I think, I mean, if there's an underrated

aspect of it, I think it's the cornerbacks, you know, especially McKinney's got a ton of experience

and I really like Jaden Sanders.

I'll be very, I'm very curious to see who is the nickel in that group.

You know, I could make a, I could reason for multiple guys, including Christian Gray, but I don't think it will be him.

You know, I really like the covered skills of DJ McKinney.

I'd like to see him play the ball a little bit better than he did in 2025.

But, man, he can track people.

He can track people.

And I like Sanders as well, too.

So I think that's an underrated part of it.

And obviously the two receivers have a ton of upside. If you can keep them around for a while in

the defensive tackles, you've got if in one instance you have size and in another instance with

brew, you have great strength. So, you know I I think they could have done better but

I think everybody would say you you could have done better and I really like what they did but I

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