This is IRIS Illustrated Insider. It's Monday, March 14th. I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

Spring football starts this Thursday on St. Patrick's Day, Nordheim, of course, women's and men in the NCAA tournament.

Norden baseball has risen number one in the country after another sweep on the road.

But let's start with, well, obviously we're going to get into a lot of spring football.

Our questions in segment two, but Jared Patterson's surgery on Friday was conducted by Dr.

Brian Radigan.

By all accounts, everything went without a hitch.

He's going to be starting rehab probably today, which he won't be looking forward to

because he's going to be in a lot of pain when they start rehab.

But about six weeks of relative inactivity, and then they'll start to ramp it up and by

all expectations from what I'm told, if there are no snags along the way,

he should be ready to go for the Ohio State game on September 3rd. I mean, he's as diligent,

I guess, I guess a member of the roster is I think Notre Dame has. So I would expect him to

kind of be one of those ahead of schedule rehab guys.

And again, it's like what we talked about on last week's podcast.

It's not, you know, the surgery sucks and the injury sucks, but it's sort of the loss of

training time or the fact that you have to alter your training time or your load along the way

that that's difficult. so hopefully he can get back and get some like live stuff in for camp opposed to

we're talking about Jared Patterson on you know a pitch count in August because if that's the

case on that that just that creates another level of difficulty to, you know, what's going to be a difficult rehab.

Just talking to two doctors on it, it was a, it's an injury that is very difficult for human beings.

Student athletes in Notre Dame are a little bit better shape than regular human beings.

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