Welcome to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, brought you by Irish Illustrated.com.

I'm Pete Sampson with Tim Priestern, Tim O'Malley.

Some off-season news to get to.

We've got questions for readers and some recruiting developments, as there always are every time of year, not just this

time of year. But before we get started, we're about a week removed from the death of Greg Bryant

shot when he was home in southern Florida. I was about to return to UAB for sort of his

summer session there. I had been a spring semester student there training with the

football team and I I guess I was struck by the I guess outpouring of emotion for a player

who was here two years didn't really play a whole lot of football but certainly seemed to make

an impact on a lot of people teammates of course but but also people around the program that maybe weren't with him on a day-to-day basis. Yeah, I mean, it's a, you know, I mean, he was kind of a paradox in a lot of respects. I mean, a kid with a ton of talent. I mean, as talented as a, yeah. As a player in the entire program and, and I mean, obviously, but, you know, in a situation like this, you put football aside.

And, I mean, his life was cut short prematurely.

And, you know, we all wrote about it a little bit.

Pete, you were in contact at various points with his father.

And, I mean, he was very concerned about his son running with the wrong crowd and putting

himself in some difficult situations.

And we don't, I mean, ultimately, or at least at this point, we don't know exactly why he's

no longer with us, the reasons behind it.

But it's just really unfortunate because here was a kid that had he maximized his ability,

he was going to be playing football for a long time and couldn't do that.

And it was just, you know, it was unfortunate.

He had a great opportunity at Notre Dame and couldn't keep it together and follow through with it.

And he was very likable too.

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