Notre Dame Daily Mailbag
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🗓️ 20 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Brian to take us home here on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to by our friends over at Fandall. We have a daily mailbag to take us home the rest of the way. Now, if this does happen to be your first mailbag, you can put MB for mailbag or a mailbox emoji. Prior to your submission, lets us know to set that question aside. Superchance do get bumped up to the top theme for today. Obviously, we talked a lot about Notre Dame coaches. |
| 0:37.8 | So you want to ask about Notre Dame coaches, college football coaches. Those questions will take precedent. But you've got some other questions. You can go ahead and throw those in there, too. We do have a couple of Super Chats Trev to get us started. From Anthony Solomon, appreciate you, man. Great show, gentlemen. Freeman will either win a championship at Notre Dame or put his successor in a position to do so, unlike his predecessor. |
| 1:00.1 | Yeah, I agree with that. |
| 1:01.9 | I think you could argue that, you know, Marcus Freeman walked into a good program, and I think that's absolutely true. |
| 1:08.4 | But Marcus Freeman also had to overcome some bad DNA that was |
| 1:14.1 | implemented by a previous successor. Excuse making had to get kicked out, you know, why we can't do |
| 1:20.5 | this, why we can't do that, roster shortcomings. I've argued before, you go look at the roster |
| 1:25.7 | that Charlie Weiss and Brian Kelly inherited from Charlie |
| 1:28.0 | Weiss, and I'll go to toe to tell with anybody and argue that it was better than the one |
| 1:32.6 | that Marcus Freeman inherited from Brian Kelly. |
| 1:38.0 | I'll take that, and I'll argue with you on that all day. |
| 1:43.3 | How many college and future NFL Hall of Famers did Marcus Freeman inherit? |
| 1:48.1 | Not recruiting year one or two, but inherit. |
| 1:51.6 | Greatest receiver in Notre Dame history, |
| 1:53.5 | production-wise, he inherited. |
| 1:56.4 | Mackey Award winning tight-in, he inherited. |
| 1:59.2 | Four-year starting left tackle, future NFL Hall of Famer, he inherited. |
| 2:03.8 | Elite first-round draft picket safety, that is also likely going to be a Hall of |
| 2:07.9 | Famer, he inherited. |
| 2:10.0 | Greatest linebacker in program history from a recognition, you know. |
| 2:17.1 | Impact. All of that, he inherited. |
| 2:20.4 | Michael Floyd. |
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