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Welcome back, everybody, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Priest for John Bryce.

We expect Tim O'Malley to be joining us here shortly.

We're reporting from all points in North America here today.

As some of us try to get back to South Bend.

I'm not quite there yet, but things are happening.

We sat down with Marcus Freeman today.

He had a little press gathering.

J.B., why don't you go ahead and start?

Because there are about four or five topics that we want to talk about that.

By the time we get to segment two here, we should have Tim O'Malley back in business.

A bit of a wrinkle.

We're not necessarily accustomed to greeting or meeting with Coach Freeman immediately after the regular season.

That's typically not done until we know the bowl game for Notre Dame and the

opponent and things like that. But a really productive session I felt like this afternoon with

Marcus Freeman discussing really all things in the state of the Notre Dame football program

to me most significantly was Marcus Freeman talking about his earnest desire to bring back the

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