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I'm Tim Priester, and it is finally game week.

We've been waiting a long time for this, as have Fighting Irish fans and college football fans all over the country.

And a lot has happened since last week, the naming of captains, which Tim, you and I speculate about every year and get it wrong every year.

And then, of course, yeah, and then, of course, the ruling on Eshack Williams.

But we have a lot to talk about here this morning.

And Pete, just your thoughts on the finalization of Eshak Williams' status at Notre Dame in the NCAA.

And the NCAA's call, I think we're all a little bit perplexed as to why that decision was made.

I mean, I just, I think it's a ridiculous ruling from the NCAA, not that Ishak

Williams should be eligible to play for Notre Dame this year, but he should be eligible

to practice.

Like, he's trying to play himself into a long shot NFL career and allowing him to practice

would give him a better opportunity to do that.

So I just don't understand.

It's a punitive punishment with no upside.

I don't understand what the NCAA's point is there other than, I guess, they take

academically very seriously, but if Notre Dame has found

Eshack Williams to be a capable student and it wants him to work on his degree and he's in

good standing academically or at least good enough to be enrolled, then he should be allowed

to practice.

I don't understand it either.

It's the strangest thing that I know there's separate cases, and that's the answer every time. Brian Kelly's told us say there's separate cases every time we ask him this question. But I like Hardy could play in a game because he defers a suspension, and Ishaq Williams takes a suspension, and then he can't play after the suspension's over. Or can't practice, is another point. I don't, all of it's, I guess what I'm saying is Hardy can play immediately and each out can't practice a year later. Kavari can, I don't know. We'll never know. Meanwhile, Greg Bryan is playing football this fall. Another sort of story. Yeah, and I realize it's not a high level of football,

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