Welcome to our first offseason edition of Irish Illustrated Overtime.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined by John Bryce of FootballScoop.com and Irish Illustrated.

And today's topic, transfer portal in the NIL.

And John, we joked right before this.

There's no such thing as just one of those two topics anymore.

We'll kind of perhaps begin with your trip to the Football Operations Conference.

Was it last week at Dallas headquarters?

And a lot of information came out of that one.

Yeah, a ton of information.

More than 200 directors of football operations and assistant DFOs from throughout college football,

close to 100 from the FBS division.

Every conference was represented by multiple DFOs.

It was a hugely informative event.

It's the fourth or fifth year in a row that I've attended the national DFO conference, but I just got through telling Scott at Football Scoop that this was

hands down, the most beneficial, the most informative. We'll dive into that today, T.O. But everything

is changing. It's continuing to change with Transfer Portal and NIL, and that's where we're at.

And hopefully we'll be able to share some good information over the course of this show.

Yeah, and with NIL, I think Notre Dame fans, obviously, they did a great job in the December, the first period.

It was extremely quiet here in the second period.

The need, the word need is overstating it, but

desires exist. And I still maintain that another starting unicorn, starting tackle that wants

to join Notre Dame as a graduate student or a person that can come in and start right away

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