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Irish Illustrated Insider: Olu Olubobola goes official, toughest 2026 trap game, NIL depth-chart drama and Notre Dame's playoff future

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4.7708 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Irish Illustrated Insider discusses Notre Dame's best future Playoff plan, its continued triumphs on the recruiting trail, and answers readers' questions on trap games, NIL vs. depth charts, and conduct clauses in new player contracts. We also offer a forced 'hot take' that runs the gamut of answers among the three-man podcast.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. It is Thursday, May 14th. I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by John Bryce of USA Today and Drew Mentock of Irish Illustrated.

0:12.7

Guys, before we get to some off-field news involving USC and reports of USC in Notre Dame, perhaps getting back together on the gridiron.

0:19.9

Recruiting continues. There was no podcast, Jinks, Jackson Hill, from Sh back together on the gridiron. Recruiting continues.

0:37.5

There was no podcast, Jinks, Jackson Hill from Shamanad High School in California. Every time I see Shamanaut, I think of Hawaii these days. But three-star offensive tackle commitment, joining Olu, Ola, Ebola from Tuesday, the Irish. It's quite a run here for Notre Dame since the Blue Gold Game in Recruiting. And I just want to point out we'll go a little bit more in depth on this because, Drew, you are going to host, I believe, Eric and Tom Loy on the tracking the trail podcast on Friday.

0:47.3

Yeah, it will just be Eric and I, but yeah, we'll wait until David Full Run Show, the top 100 defense alignment commits tomorrow at noon Eastern, I believe.

0:55.3

So we'll hop on shortly after that to talk about that.

0:58.4

And the other hot streak players, Nordim has picked up recently on the trail.

1:03.4

Maybe I don't know if you got a chance to look at Tom's story on Jackson Hill,

1:06.7

but at the risk of channeling the Brian Kelly phrasing of RKG, he said, I will hold a door open for you,

1:13.2

but I will also knock your blank into the dirt.

1:15.6

And I think Notre Dame fans can get into the second part as much as the first.

1:20.0

Yeah, no, I did good work by T. Loy and good work by our fearless host here to point that out to me before we recorded so that I made sure to check that out and got a chance to look at a little bit of his film and his offer list.

1:34.2

He certainly has a great mindset and approach to him based on those comments.

1:39.1

His offer list is not going to blow you away.

1:41.4

His frame is really nice.

1:43.5

His video, his film is nice because of the way that he plays through the whistle.

1:48.5

I'm a big believer in playing through the echo of the whistle,

1:51.4

and he will do that, whether it's directly involved in the play or not.

1:54.6

So good for Jackson.

1:56.0

That's fun to watch those types of highlights.

1:58.4

But we said it a week ago on the pot.

2:00.6

I said then, like,

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