Irish Breakdown Nation. Welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

It's been a minute since Brian and I had a show for you guys.

It was a couple Fridays ago when we did a mailbag before he went on vacation.

But we are back.

It is Tuesday, March 11th.

And today, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be talking about star power.

And we're going to be talking about what that means in the grand scheme of college football. Does Notre Dame have it? You know, you look at past champions.

Did they have it? What did they have in terms of star power? And then Brian and I are going to

separate that out between offense and defense. And we sorted it kind of into four buckets.

We started out with some of the

proven players. We have players we're going to talk about that are on the verge. They're very close

and pretty quickly into 2025. We're going to start to see some of those filter up into the

proven category. We have some players that are very capable of doing it. We just have to see a little

bit more of a sample size.

And then there's players that we're going to keep our eye on really throughout the majority of 2025.

Those are the players with the really high ceilings.

And can they have a year like, you know, not a lot of people expect a lot of Mitchell Evans in 2023 to have the impact over that stretch of time that he did.

Does somebody step up into that role? And we're going to break that down on offense and defense.

And we are going to end the show today with a mailback. There's a lot of time that we're going

to be rolling with this show today, a lot of good topics of conversation. So as we're going,

be sure to get your questions in, your comments, and anything that you want Brian and I to cover at the end of the show today. In order to do that, you put a little

mailbox emoji or you put MB for mailbag and we'll be sure to get those start and get those

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