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into irish illustrated insider it's thursday october 13th with tim o'm ellmally from irish

illustrator and peter and irisome of the athletic i'm tim priestor from irish illustrate and we're

here today to talk about nordame stanford this weekend nor dame what's it up to tim i mean it's

16 and a half nor d's a 16 and a half.

I got all over the place too. Strange. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I would imagine that it has a chance to

continue to rise. But, hey, before we talk about Stanford, we caught wind of the news the other day

in Tuesday's practice at Bo Bauer. We weren't sure at the time what the injury was.

We know that he's been battling with a shoulder left side of his body injury, but on Tuesday

at practice, he injured a knee and he is out for the rest of the season. His attempt to

surpass Kurt Heinish, as Nordheim's all-time leading participant in games has

come to an end. So Heinish has the record until Houston Griffith. If he plays the rest of

his games this year, he will be the leader. If he doesn't, Josh Lug is one game behind him. But

Tim, you said before he started recording everybody, you know,

everybody has a great deal of respect for Bo Bauer from day one when he came to Nordame as a

freshman. It was an impact physical player on special teams. You hate to see it happen.

And you think back to Jonas Gray on senior day, but that was in Kaepern Lewis Moore in the

championship game, but that's more along the lines of, ooh, that hurts their pro future.

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