All right, Brian, and part two of today's show here in the Irish Breakdown podcast,

brought you by our friends over at Van Duel. We're going to start talking about the Notre Dame cornerback room and very similar conversation to what we had on Tuesday about the Notre Dame linebacking unit. This is an absolutely loaded room. Now, it's a little different because there's not five guys all returning that were a part of the rotation, but what they do return is absolutely outstanding. Now, that being said, the similar question that we have to the linebacking unit, there's a new position coach. And so there is a lot of questions around Aaron Henry and what we're going to see. And we're going to take a dive into that in part two today's show. And then obviously to follow, we're going to break down the super talented room. But ultimately, when we talk about the cornerback position, this is where we have to start.

The roster is loaded, but a new position coach raises some questions.

Yeah, I mean, that's the dichotomy with a lot of this on defense, Trev. And it's not questioning

the new coach. It's we don't, it's the unknown of how a coach will do at the new

place. We've seen plenty of times over the years, Treb, where a coach who has a successful

track record gets hired at a new school or gets a promotion, you know, from position coach to

decoordinate or, or something different than the job that he thrived at and he doesn't do as well. We've seen coaches who were okay at one place come to another place and thrive. And so it's kind of the opposite story of that. And we don't know how coach Henry is going to perform at Notre Dame with the town he has. We know his track record and it's an impressive track record. But it's, it's the unknown it's not oh i don't know if Aaron Henry's as good as Mike Mickens. It's, I genuinely don't know if Aaron Henry's going to be able to do as good of a job as Mike Mickens. It's, it's the unknown aspect of it. And so while we know the talent and we know the expectations, it's more so, let's see how the development goes.

Let's see how the relationship goes. And we'll dive into all those things.

But here's the reality of it. Let's set the expectation.

It's the same at linebacker and it's the same at D line, Trev.

There is no, well, let's give them a year to get comfortable.

Let's give them a year to get acclimated.

Here's the reality of what Brian John Marie is stepping into.

I was so happy when he pronounced his name in the interview yesterday.

I was like, all right, cool, we're kidding it.

We got it right.

Yes.

But same thing for him. It's the same thing for

Coach Partridge is the same thing for Coach Henry. The expectation is you got to walk into this

sucker and get it going and get it or keep it rolling. And there can be no, well, it took me some

time to figure this out and that out.

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