Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester,

for an old school two-man booth. Though as such, Tim, I think we'll probably end up talking a lot about the mid-range jump shot,

bunting runners over, maybe in the third inning, and establishing the fullback dive to throw down the seam to the split-ended flanker. So if you're good for all those,

please chime in on whatever's on your mind on Notre Dame football these days.

Yeah, welcome back, everybody. There's, well, there was a lot going on with,

with Notre Dame basketball advancing to another day of play, whether they deserve to.

Now, I mean, they deserve to beat Pittsburgh, but caught a break there.

But look, we're really more tuned into what's going to start happening next week with

the start of spring practice.

And Tim, you want to talk about some of the, some of the, I guess, topics at the forefront

of our mind as we hit into this spring drills.

Yeah, I think, Tim, you mentioned you to be focused on a player for every position coming

up in a series for I, which illustrated.

I just had a couple of storylines I want to follow through the spring.

I know, usually we're trying to see, like, what players rising up, who needs to be the next

so-and-so, the next whatever.

My first one is, who is the next leader

for Notre Dame? Because I had a conversation with Pete Samson, and I had kind of gotten this

from when I was talking to players down in January at our two major media opportunities before

the Georgia game and before the championship game.

You could talk to anybody. The leadership void, and I think you write about this most off

seasons because it exists every year, but the leadership void this year, it's incredible.

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