All right, man, in part three of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, part two by our friends over at Van Duel. We're continuing our discussion with the Notre Dame cornerback room. In part two, we talked about what the expectations are, what some of the questions are. It was more big picture. Now we're going to take a dive into the room. We're going to take a look at what makes up this exceptional roster. It's extremely talented.

But there are still some questions around what it's going to look like in 26, both schematically and from a personnel standpoint.

But what we do know for sure is all of the pieces are there.

All of the ingredients are there for this to be an absolutely elite unit in 2026.

There's no question about that, Treve.

I mean, this is a group that you look at and say, I don't want to hear new coach.

I don't want to hear scheme.

I don't want to hear.

There's literally no excuse that I'm going to accept that's valid to explain why this secondary

is a whole and this cornerback room is not one of the nation's best groups. Like none. There's not

it. Oh, well, so-and-so got injured. Okay. Two years ago, we saw Benjamin Morris and a preseason

All-American getting injured, and guess what happened?

The next stud gets walked in there, and they're still a great secondary.

Right. We've seen it.

Like, that's the way this roster's built. You've got Dallas Golden.

You know what? Let's bring it up. Let's just bring it up now, Trev.

Let's just, this is the cornerback room right now

that we're going to watch here at South Bed. There's not a dude on this field that can't help

Notre Dame win football games this season, not a one, including the freshman. You've got Dallas

Golden, who's a top hundred recruit coming out of high school who played last year.

Jayden Sanders played a bunch of football for Michigan last year. You thought enough of him that you went after him when he got into the portal. Hard. Despite having everybody else on this roster, Aidan Pouncey's a top 100 recruit coming in. Leonard Moore is the best cornerback in college football. Cary Adams is a five-star player coming out of high school. Mark Zachary played a lot of good football for you last year. Chas Smith is a top 100 caliber player that could help you as a freshman. I would argue he's more physically advanced as a freshman than what Leonard than what Mark Zachary was last year. And he's as a player. He's certainly ahead of where talent-wise and in a lot of those areas, then what Clarence Lewis was in 2020 when he started for you on a team that made it to the cost of all playoffs and played for the ACC championship. And then, of course, Christian Grace played a ton of football for you. DJ McKinney's played a ton of football, very good football player. So I don't want to hear, oh, well, we had this one injury. All right, cool. So maybe without Leonard Moore, you're not the number one cornerback room in the country. You're number five. You know what I mean? So the town is there for this to be an elite group. And there's no, there's no explanation, no justification outside of half this roster

going down to season-ending injuries that you shouldn't be a top five cornerback room next year,

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