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I'm Tim Priester with Pete Sampson, and we are here today on February 1st.

It's getting warmer here in South Bend.

Hard to believe, but it's getting warmer here.

We have some news to talk about Lance Taylor since our last podcast.

Eight days ago, Lance Taylor has officially become, well, no, not officially.

Nordame hasn't announced it.

But we know he is the next running backs coach at Notre Dame.

Nordame is looking at Eric Kuma, a guy that I liked when I watched him on film pre-Nodernardame versus Virginia Tech,

a bigger wide receiver, not as big as Miles Boykin, but a bigger receiver scored seven touchdowns. He's looking at Notre Dame, Texas

Tech, Penn State. Recent news at Asa Turner. We'll sign with Washington next week, and

Norden picked up a recruit. They went all the way to Germany to get him.

Mike Elston gets a verbal commitment from Alexander Aronsberger from Dusseldorf, Germany. Good player.

We'll talk about him in a little bit. But let's start Pete with Lance Taylor, the running back coach.

We had Irish Illustrated had originally put out a list of four and then

added Lance Taylor to the group and he ended up being the guy that Nordame tabbed. Yeah, I mean, he was,

when we, I think it was on our last podcast, we were talking about the pros and cons of Mike Hart.

And I felt like Lance Taylor sort of was a little bit better than Hart in like all the main

areas that I wanted in terms of Power 5 experience, Stanford versus IU.

You know, Hart was very productive with what he turned out there last year.

But also the recruiting territory.

What are your roots? Per Taylor, it's a little bit of NFL

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