Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider.

It's spring break at Notre Dame, so a week off from Notre Dame football.

Looking forward to getting back on the football field next week with the fighting arts,

and we will be there, Irish Illustrated and others.

I'm Tim Priestler, Tim O'Malley.

We're looking forward to getting, to getting back to,

you know, some football, some concrete stuff to talk about because our name's been on

spring break and we've been working the, the Chiplon-Clark-Lee interviews for all that we can

for about 10 days. But it's time to start looking into next week and what we're looking

forward to, you know, offensively and defensively, and who are the guys that you're interested

in seeing when we get back at it next week? You know, we get to see practice after practice

after practice starting next week. There's a Thursday. There's a Saturday. You'll see that a lot, and they'll be patted.

It's a time of the spring where we really do find out a lot about future teams.

It's just not always the team in 2019.

But you see guys that are working new positions.

I'll never forget being at practice and watching young Sam Mustifer struggle snapping. And you think, well, is this going to come along? And then a year later, he's the starting center of Notre Dame. It comes along. You see guys you thought we're going to be really good getting pushed around as upperclassmen, and you know that might be it for them. And in this case, we get to watch a guy we really want to see develop and we've been talking about all offseason, Houston Griffith, because I wrote a story about

losing Julian Love. When Clark Lee uses elite or a skill set, he's not, he's not prone to hyperbole.

No, no, he's not. And, you know, I was just going to say on the flip side, and I wrote about it a little bit yesterday and Thursday thoughts that, you know, when it comes to Chip Long, if you, if you lob him a softball question, he will say positive things about that player. But if you ask what he needs to do to take the next step,

he will be, he'll give you a critical analysis. Likewise, I mean, when he starts talking about

a leader in every group, he is not going to make that up and volunteer that information.

I thought that was some of the more significant, one of the more significant things

that came out of that because he truly does believe that Ian Book's a leader of the quarterbacks

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