I.B. Nation, Notre Dame fans across the globe, across this land.

Welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

It is Friday, September 12th.

That's Sean Davis.

I'm Brian Driscoll, Notre Dame tomorrow.

A little over 20 for about 30 hours, 30 and a half hours from now.

We'll be kicking off against Texas A&M.

It is a big game for the Irish and for the Aggies.

And we're going to talk a little bit about that game today. But as part of the RTCF show that Sean and I are going to do together, we're going to talk a little recruiting. We're going to talk a little Notre Dame team. And then we're obviously going to talk about college football. our recruiting topic today shan is the massive massive weekend of visitors that are expected

normally when we get a big visit list like that early in the week we get the list and we know

who's coming and there's usually like 10 12 13 cancellations i think i counted like three

one of them is a commit who couldn't come,

had some things going on. You know, Jacoby Clapper's not on the list. But man, this is a massive,

massive list of not just the committed kids. If you just took the, I think all but four committed

players in the 2026 class and then two of the three commits in the 2027 class are going to be here this weekend. If you and if you just remove that, it's a massive list of players. We'll dive into that. Part two of our show today will be our team topic. And Sean and I are going to go through our five players. We each have a list of five. Shocker, there's a lot of the same guys on the list. But we're going to go over our five players on offense, five players on defense,

who we think are most important to this weekend's game against Texas A&M.

And then part three, Sean, we have several different topics that we're going to talk about.

But we decided we're going to kind of settle in on looking at some coaches on the hot seat and where

they are right now, some games that are in front of them, either this weekend or upcoming

weekends where their futures are going to be decided over the next few weeks, in my opinion.

And either A, some of them might get let go because obviously we know that coaches get fired a lot

more during the season. Some of them may just fall behind so great that they can't recover from it. And then there's a couple coaches we have. You know, I made breakfast for Ann just morning, right, Sean? And, you know, I'm making, you know, just something simple, scrambled eggs and toast, right? So you turn the burner on, you put the pan on there, and it's like, right at first, it's not a hot pan, but it's starting to warm up a little bit. Like the burner just got turned on for a couple coaches in the last couple weeks or is about to, could be turned on. We're going to talk about them as well, so that'll be our college football topic. And then if we have some time, Sean's got another college football topic that he and I have discussed. I think it'd be really a fascinating conversation for us to have that we'll get into. If we can't talk about it this week because of time, then we'll talk about it next week because it's not so much a, it's not so much a conversation about like this weekend's games it's just more so

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