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It's Thursday, November 16th, and we are previewing today, Notre Dame's home finale.

The 500th game played in Notre Dame Stadium this Saturday at 3.30, 330 kickoff.

31 seniors will be running out for, quote, the last time.

We'll see how many actually are running out for the last time. But Nordame and Wait

Forest this weekend. We just met with Marcus Freeman for a Zoom meeting. I am Tim Prester with Tim O'Malley and

Pete Samson. And we're going to discuss some of the things that

Marcus Freeman said, one of the best things that we heard.

And then I kind of anticipated this guys.

When Rocco Spindler didn't, had surgery right away following the knee injury against

Clemson, to me, that was a sign that it wasn't an ACL because usually

they allow that to rest a little bit and die down a little bit, some of the swelling. And so

Marcus Freeman confirmed today, MCL injury for Spindler. That doesn't impact this weekend's game

at all, but that's a really good sign moving forward into the spring. Yeah, and usually

they'll tell you too right away, like he was injured. He's out for the season. He had an ACL. We expect

him back for spring and they really don't expect him back for spring when they have an ACL injury. But in

this case, MCL can get him back for spring. It was refreshing. The Marcus Freeman said he might not be 100% full go for all of spring because he'll miss winter

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