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I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

It's Monday, March 17th, Sean, and you know what that means.

That means my wife, my Italian wife, is way more excited about today than her Irish husband is.

Because it is St. Patrick's Day.

I had a gray shirt on with an IB logo on it.

I had some green on and she comes down and

she's like, all right, which one do you want to wear? And I was like, the one I got on, she's like,

no, you're wearing green. My wife never tells me what to wear. One day a year, March 17th, my wife tells

me what to wear. But I'm ready to rock and roll man. She goes, hey, how about gap closers? You're going to talk about the 27 kids. And so I was like, all right, she has the rundown of the show. Let's go.

I'm excited, Sean. We are here back for another RTCF show. We're going to talk recruiting first,

then team, then college football. And dude, we are excited about this show because you and I have been talking about these top a lot of these topics for a while and so what we're going to talk about today the recruiting part we're going to

talk about the pot of gold that's gone out today we're going to talk about just our overall thoughts on

that and then we're going to discuss how important the next two months are to Notre Dame's

recruiting efforts for the next two recruiting cycles and I believe this is going to determine whether or not Notre Dame can truly go out and have elite recruiting the next two years is not completely, but a lot of that found ground work is going to get laid in the next two months and we'll explain why.

That'll be the recruiting portion of the show.

The team portion of the show, Sean and I are going to talk about the quarterback battle.

We're going to talk about the battle, size it up here going about the quarterback battle, which we've all talked about, we're going to look and say, what is this quarterback battle going to tell us

about Notre Dame and what's it going to tell us about Marcus Freeman? And we'll have that conversation.

And then the college football part, you and I were on the phone. It was about a week or so ago.

And we're going over the top 10 coaches list top 25 coaches

list and we're just kind of picking it apart and we're just like dude this is going to be our next

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