This is Ivers Illustrated Insider. It's Monday, January 3rd. I'm Tim Preacher with Tim O'Malley. Pete Sampson, two of the three have made it back to South Bend. O'Malley will get there eventually. When are you coming back, Tim?

When are you allowing you to come back? Wednesday? Okay. This is not a, this is not a travel delay. I took the

flight to Atlanta and we're at the Georgia Aquarium looking at whale sharks with the kids and stuff

like that. Excellent. And I used to live here, so there's a lot to do in the next two days to do everything

I used to do in my 20s when I livedly. I had a little bit of a delay.

But we're back and ready to roll here to talk about Nordames's 37 to 35 loss in the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State.

Pete, let's start with you. O'Malley and I did, of course, our instant analysis after the game that lasted.

Congratulations, Pete. We're going to start with you. Enjoy this. Just some of the, the overriding factors that are at the forefront of your mind here today.

No surprise that they really missed

Kairn Williams, but I think they missed

them even more than I thought they were going to.

They had no, I thought Marcus Freeman, the head coach missed

Marcus Freeman, the defensive coordinator a lot.

Because I don't, I don't think that Marcus Freeman as a D.C. would have stopped Oklahoma

State, which was sure, really should have scored 50 on Notre Dame.

But I think he could have gummed it up a little bit more than what the current, I guess,

collaborative operation was.

And I thought that it was, it was a reminder of when Brian Kelly says,

winning is hard that it's not a cliche.

It was a little bit nostalgic.

But it was also a very indicative day of how poor some of the recruiting has been under

Brian Kelly at the offensive skill positions.

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