Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to by our friends over at Bandil. Happy Thursday, everybody.

Another week of the offseason is already almost done. And I mean, if you guys are anything like me, I'm, I need football back in my life. I know the Super Bowl is this Sunday.

Personally, I don't really care who's in the Super Bowl. So need college football back in my life. We have another awesome show coming your way today. Today we're going to get some football later today, Trev, because I have a little present for you that I'm going to send you tonight. That's every single running play that Notre Dame ran this year and every RPO off of it. So you'll get to start breaking that down tonight.

We'll see. There we go. I knew you were having withdrawals. So I was like, let me hook this guy up. Let me help this guy out. I was. I was starting to have some withdrawals. But at least today we get to sit down and talk some Notre Dame football, Brian. And we're breaking today's show into a couple of different segments part one of today's show it's kind of like a news and notes type of segment

we're going to break down the announcement of the blue gold game. And then we were talking before the show, but it's weird that National Signing Day was actually yesterday, the official national signing day. And so we're going to talk about Notre Dame's recruiting class now that it is officially done. And then kind of part two of the part one show, we're talking about the grades for the offensive and defensive recruiting class. Part two of today's show, Brian, we are talking about the Notre Dame defensive end room. We're continuing the position preview series that we have going on. Defense events are next up and it's going to be an awesome conversation. And then today, folks, we're going to try to wrap everything up with a mailbag.

So as the show goes on, be sure to get your questions in, your comments, concerns. Put a little MB for mailbag or a little mailbox emoji lets us know to set that question aside. But I'm ready to talk some Notre Dame football today, man. I am, Treb. I mean, you know, there's a lot going on, even though it doesn't feel like there's a lot going on.

You know, Notre Dame sets the blue gold game. You have signing day yesterday. And as you were talking, I got to say, I miss the old signing day.

I miss the days where there was all this drama of what was going to happen.

You know, I always kind of mock the male, you know, like football is kind of like the soap opera for men.

You know what I mean? And, and, and, and, but it's not even really mocking it because some of it I really love.

Like, I miss the lead up the signing day.

I mean, Treve, this is probably before you were old enough to really follow recruiting.

But, I mean, I've said this before back when I was a kid.

So way before Trevor was a thing in his parents' eye,

I mean, we wouldn't really know who no name was going to sign until like the last month

because their big recruiting visits were done like at the December banquet.

And that's when all the closing was done from like January and February.

If you don't have a

class signed by the first week of december you're screwed i mean it is good and like notre dame

i think their last commitment came in august you know what i mean it's just like like prior to the

two kickers jumping on board late, you know, it's,

I do kind of miss.

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