Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider, brought to you by The Black Tux.

I'm Tim Prester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

And believe it or not, everybody, Notre Dame is, as we sit here right now, nine days away from the start of spring drills.

Next Friday, March 1st, we'll meet with Brian Kelly,

and then have an opportunity to see the first glance at the Noradame team of 2019.

And, you know, per usual in the spring, there are a lot of areas of concern, hot topics.

What are you guys, what are some of the topics that

interest you the most heading in the spring? How linebacker sorts out is probably number one.

You know, personally, I'm interested to see what Phil Djokovic looks like running 11 on 11.

And then, you know, can you get something, well, not something, but a lot more of something

out of, you know, Kevin Austin and Michael Young.

Can you find a receiver who can actually run away from somebody other than Chris Fink,

who I think runs away from people when they're in front of them?

I want to see somebody run by somebody and then

make a play. So those will be three things off the top of my head that I'm really curious about.

Kevin Austin's number one for me because of this point last year. If he would have been an early

enrollee, that's all I would have wanted to see, was who I thought might be a guy that could

break into Notre Dame's rotation consistently, which didn't happen last year. You'd never give up on a guy that could break into Notre Dame's rotation consistently, which didn't happen last year.

You'd never give up on a guy after one year.

I'd love to see Austin.

I like see Austin take that spot.

I expect him to, don't you?

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