This is Irish Illustrated insider Tim Prester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

Notre Dame host South Florida this weekend, South Florida, four and eight last year,

coming off a not a real decisive victory against the Citadel.

This is a tough day. This is a tough read for

Notre Dame preparing for South Florida, new head coach, new coordinators, opening against a triple

option team and about 16 transfers contributing as well as a few offensive linemen. They didn't play

last week. They were expected to play this week.

It's a good thing South Florida was a bad football team last year because it's a real

guessing game for Notre Dame.

Yeah, it's kind of the epitismic question.

I mean, how many pieces of film did he watch, the quarterbacks from Alcorn State from

two years ago?

The offensive coordinator, a defensive coordinator didn't, rarely are you not with the

head coach, right, when you come over in these situations? It's all new stuff and the citadel. I

forgot about that part. That's, uh, they're no good. So that helps a little bit for Notre Dame,

because that could be an issue. If this was, if this was Duke's personnel with all these new things, you'd probably be an issue.

Yeah, and just speaking offensively, I mean, they threw the ball for like 100 yards last week.

It was not not impressive in that realm at all.

And then, you know, offensively, what schemes are you running?

Is it FAU?

Is it Clemson?

Is it an Alcorn State? I'm assuming that's going to be a lot of fayu and slight clemson but just without the personnel of clemson to deal with so it's i mean

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