Welcome to this week's edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, brought to you by Irish Illustrated.com

with Pete Sampson, Tim O'Malley, Jack Freeman, and Tim Priester.

We are going to talk today about Irish invasion on Friday, the second annual Irish invasion.

Pete, you were there with the whole group and pulled it all together.

And why don't you just...

Well, first of all, the first question I asked you was whether the event was that much greater than last year.

It certainly was an upgrade, but not overly significant, in your opinion.

Yeah, I thought the stadium was a significant change for the better, and they were putting in turf at this time last year, so it wasn't even an option.

I'm sure they would have had it in the last year, too.

I thought the staff did a much better job communicating with prospects, essentially recruiting prospects

to attend. I thought that there was a much smaller group of guys who scratched at the last

minute. Caleb Kelly was a five-star linebacker that was supposed to come and ended up not making it,

but they had a lot of guys in from Florida.

Kevin Stepherson included who committed.

But then you had Carlos Becker, Spencer Wright, Van derius Cowen, Devon Studstill.

You had a lot of guys that would have been easy for them to sort of bag it at the last second

and not make the trip all the way up to South Bend.

So I thought that was, if there was a most significant improvement,

I thought it was the job the staff did recruiting guys to show up to the event.

In terms of the overall talent that was there, I think that earlier I felt like that it was going to be a significant step up.

I think in the end it probably was about the same.

You know, people sort of forget last year you had, you know, Jerry Tilleri was here,

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