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

It's Monday, April 3rd.

We had an opportunity to watch Notre Dame Sixth practice of the spring on Saturday.

When I say we, I mean from Irish Illustrated in 24-7 sports, myself and Tom Loy,

Tom, joins us this morning. Tom, welcome. Thank you. Glad to be here. We, uh, we, the way we

split up duties on Saturday was that I had the, the, uh, the big picture stuff of the entire team,

offense, defense, special teams.

And we had Tom focus on the early entry freshman, and we're going to want him to comment here

in segment one specifically about the recruits that were in attendance.

But Tom, why don't we, let's go ahead and, I mean, some of our followers have seen and heard what I thought in the instant analysis after practice.

But let's start with you, Tom, about, you know, the early entry freshman and what you saw.

And I know you were impressed with Christian Gray and me very much as well.

That is not a kid that looks like it's a senior in high

school running around the Norden practice field. Yeah, man, he's he's a special individual

young for his class. He's a difference maker and he's been that way since high school. And he

honestly, ever since I first saw him, he just continues to get better and better,

whether it was a seven on seven down in Atlanta or senior film.

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