I.B.N.

I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. I'm Brian Driscoll. That's Trevor Trowbridge. And that guy, let's see, how can I point? That guy right there's Vince DeDario. Hi, Ho Hedadario. Vince is on the show. You guys know what that means. That means the school year's over.

It's officially summer. Yeah. If you see my face in the afternoon in June, that means it is summer

vacation, baby. Could not be more excited. We're going to get Vince for the next couple,

next couple months, and we're going to have a lot of three-man shows. Sometimes it'll be me and

Vince. Sometimes it'll be me and Trev. Sometimes it'll be Vince and Trev. But we are rocking and rolling and ready to go. We've got another, actually a couple really fun

Notre Dame topics coming up today, guys. We are going to discuss, we do this every summer. Vince,

you and I have fun with this, the last chance you, right? It's this last opportunity for certain Notre Dame players to make an impact for one reason

or another, whether it's their last, it's like for one player we're going to talk about.

This is literally his last year at Notre Dame.

It's his last chance to really make a splash.

And for other guys, it's if you don't make an impact this year, you might find yourself

no longer a starter or no longer a rotation player because some younger players ready to come up.

And I think these are the emergence of players like this.

And we'll talk about some examples once we get into the segments.

These are very important to his team success over the course of the years.

When veterans kind of

have that breakout season like you know we'll talk about it but the we're going to go offense

first defense second and then the third part of the show today second big topic but third section

of the show today is going to look at the coaches with the most to prove this season, the returning coaches

with the most to prove, because it's an easy thing to say Chris Ash has a lot to prove because

he's never coached Notre Dame. We all know that. But what about the returners? And what do we

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