This is Irish Illustrated Insider. I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson. It's March 25th, Wednesday. And Irish Illustrated Insider is back after a couple week break. No changes at Notre Dame. Still a ghost town to use Jack Swarbrick's words in a recent interview

with Irish Illustrated. And we're going to start with that interview with Jack Swarbrick. I don't think

that since we last gathered that it was officially announced that Nordame Spring Practices were

canceled and that has been the case. I did have the interview with Jack Swarberg guys and

what we used in the headline was, quote, there's no chapter in the manual for this and there

certainly isn't with the coronavirus. Now it's in Notre Dame, I think Sorberg made this point

in your interview that they were, I think,

on the earlier side of the cancellation of spring

practice, you know, that all

sort of came together within about 24 hours

because I think when you guys recorded

the last podcast, it was still on and I was

in conversations with a couple of parents

of players and there was some confusion about

you know, sort of why are you bringing everyone back so quickly?

There's a lot of just sort of unknowns at this point.

And then I think by the time you guys, this podcast was posted or as you guys were

recording it on Thursday of two weeks ago, they'd come to decision that, no, it's out.

And I think it was the timeline

there was something similar to the NBA canceled on Wednesday night. And then NHL Thursday morning,

Notre Dame, Thursday right at noon. But I mean, Torvick is right. There's no real manual for this

in terms of how do you recruit, how do you feed, how do you train,

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