Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider, the Blue Gold Game Preview Edition. I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by Tim

Preachisture of Irish Illustrated, John Bryce of USA Today. We are two days away, about 49 hours from the start of the

95th annual Blue Gold game, 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, eastern time in South Bend, Indiana,

which means the 2031 edition is going to be a lot of fun, guys.

That'll be number 100.

But first, we are going to talk about this one.

And also, John Bryce just mentioned off of the year that it was National Jelly Bean Day yesterday. I'm a big fan of those. Today is actually National Talk-Lake Shakespeare Day. if Tim Preacher, if you want to do that a little bit, when you give us your review of new Notre Dame commit, John Gay,

and we will get, of course, to the decommit of Khalil Terry as well. I think he's a real solid

player. I think it's kind of hard for me to talk about John Gay without bringing up Kalil Terry

because there's a correlation there.

And I think Notre Dame, for lack of a better way of saying it, shows the one that's the better fit for Notre Dame.

Now, don't get me wrong, I thought Kalil Terry will knock you into next week, man, really, really physical football players.

So I thought that that was a loss in terms of, you know, on-field ability.

But, you know, John Gay, I think he's a combination of a guy that is strong on run support.

I think he's an in-the-box.

He's a nickel or an in-the-box safety.

But he can also turn and run with some fast receivers.

So I think the combination of those two, plus he obviously, when he came to campus last weekend, really impressed Notre Dame, and Nordame jumped on the opportunity.

So certainly a loss of Khalil Terry.

I'm not in the camp of, you know, when a guy decommits, it's not that big of a deal anyway.

It was.

He's a powerful hitter, it's not that big of a deal anyway. It was.

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