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With Tim O'Malley, I'm Tim Prester, and this is Irish Illustrated Insider.

It's October 2nd, Tim O'Malley, and Nordames's halfway through the season.

Whoever would have thought that it would be in a situation like that.

But as Nordame prepares for Louisville this week, we're here with Irish Illustrated Insider,

and we went over the Duke game with Marcus Freeman, did an instant analysis, and now here

we are with Irish Illustrated Insider wrapping up Duke and talking a little bit about Louisville.

I haven't had a full chance, Tim, to get completely into their film.

But they have athletes.

As usual, they have athletes.

I don't think they have a very good quarterback.

But we'll talk more about Louisville as we wrap up the Duke game,

Notre Dame winning 21 to 14 in very dramatic fashion.

Yeah, there's a reason you haven't had a great chance to look at Louisville yet.

Same reason you didn't have a great chance to look at Duke yet last week.

It's because Notre Dame games are coming down to the wire and we are rehashing,

hatching again, analyzing, re-analizing, and looking at every aspect of these last two games.

Imagine the toll it takes on fans and us and now think of the Notre Dame football team because

they go into yet another week.

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