Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought

you by our friends over at Fandule. Happy Tuesday.

Another week of the offseason is rolling right along.

We have another loaded show for everybody today.

Originally, we were just going to talk about the 23 and 24 recruiting classes, and if there's just kind of this national bias from major outlets against Notre Dame,

and then about half an hour ago, ESPN released their second edition of their way too early top 25 rankings.

So we figured no better way to kick off the show than talking about that.

And then afterwards, we're going to get into if there's a recruiting bias against Notre Dame,

talk about the roles that the 23 and 24 recruiting class

are going to play on this season and the impact that they're going to have.

So Brian,

another loaded show today, man.

And that's where the recruiting rankings bias thing came from

because we're sitting there having this conversation about how the 24 and 25 classes

are going to dominate Notre Dame starting lineup, like,

dominate it.

Like, it is without a doubt going to be the primary drivers of the roster in every way imaginable.

And then you look at the recruiting rankings and then neither of them are top 10 classes

and you're like okay in the 25 classes it wasn't ranked very high either so it's like

what's the deal here like is there is there a notary name recruiting rankings bias is it

something else is it maybe a combination of a couple things?

So we're going to have some fun talking about that, Trev.

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