Welcome back to our second off-season edition of Irish Illustrated Overtime.

And for the second straight week, I am joined by John Bryce of FootballScoop.com and Irish

Illustrated. And this is a timely one, John, because today at Football Scoop, you published a

comprehensive and really intriguing article regarding changes coming to college football.

It is, we talked about a little bit last week, in helmet communication, something that if you think you're a football fan and think to yourself, wait a minute, don't they have that?

They did in the NFL in the 1990s and they finally have brought it to college football.

Yeah, almost exactly 30 years, or I guess exactly 30 years after the NFL first introduced

in helmet communications between basically coaching quarterback at that time.

Defense was added later on.

But college is finally moving there.

It's been experimented some.

Notre Dame worked with it all this spring.

Matter of fact, Notre Dame worked with it last December in preparation for the Sun Bowl. But at that point in time,

the NCAA had said any teams that wish to utilize in-helmet communications for their

bowl games required both teams to be participating. Oregon State did not want to participate

during bowl season. Therefore, Notre Dame could not use the in Helmut communication in the actual Sun Bowl

victory against the Beavers.

It also was not eligible to be used in last year's playoffs, but it was utilized in some

of the other games.

I think maybe Penn State might have used it in its bowl game, and we've actually seen a

couple of SCS teams

be among the first college teams to utilize

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