Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, Notre Dame fans, Mike Singer, live on the

Blumgold YouTube channel with rival Steve Wilfong,

previewing a massive recruiting weekend for the Fighting Irish.

And later in the show, we'll have Blue and Gold's Tyler James recap Notre Dame's first spring practice.

Very busy time in the world of Notre Dame football and recruiting.

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Steve wrote a really good preview content or preview article yesterday.

I've done a couple articles.

Kyle Kelly, I mean, I did a commit preview or like a commit watch kind of story.

So lots to read over on our website, Bloomgold.com.

Steve, how are you doing, my friend? Doing well, man. We'll see how the Irish are feeling coming out of one of the bigger recruiting weekends and recent memory at Notre Dame. Yeah, that's kind of what I want to start with, Steve, because I feel like I've said this so many times the past few years where it's like this is the biggest recruiting

weekend in the Freeman era like it just seems like there's so many of those I mean in your

standpoint and on my second monitor here I'm just like scrolling the visit list it's there's

what like 30 guys or something coming in town this weekend and three five stars I I mean, this is a huge weekend just in general for the Irish.

So I'm curious just to your thoughts overall about this weekend, you know,

that Notre Dame has that really started last night.

Well, obviously it's an opportunity for, look,

Lou Holtz used to have big recruiting weekends like this, and he would talk to the

group and say, hey, if everybody in this room decides to come to Notre Dame, you will win the

national championship together. The class that Notre Dame brought in in 2026 was one that

certainly meets the national championship standard, the best Notre Dame recruiting class to come to South Bend since the Holtz era on paper,

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