Hi, B.Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. It is Wednesday already. Can you guys believe it? It's Wednesday already. It's hump day. And that means we got a lot to talk about today. We're going to talk matchups. We're going to talk personnel. We're going to talk game wreckers. And of course, since it's Wednesday, we are going to have our weekly buy-sell hold segment.

Notre Dame gets started this weekend. Obviously, it gets Northern Illinois on Saturday. The Irish get their home opener against the Huskies. This is a quality football team. I know they're a Mac team, so everyone just kind of assumes that they suck,

but this is actually a quality MAC football team. And Notre Dame is going to have to

bring their, be ready for a competitive game. It is a game that Notre Dame should win handily.

But it's one of those games, as we've seen in recent years, against Marshall in 2020, Toledo in 2021, Ball State in 2018. If you're not locked in as a

Notre Dame football team, it could get a little bit interesting and a little dicey for you.

So Notre Dame is going to have to obviously be ready to rock and roll in this game on Saturday and

avoid any potential let down after the big win over Texas A&M this weekend.

So, you know, when you think about what's at stake for Notre Dame, it's not so much winning or

losing. I just, I can't really fathom a scenario in which they lose this game, but you need to

make sure that it's not a game where you go out there and kind of sleepwalk through it and maybe have to play longer than you

should or your starters have to play more snaps than they should because this is the kind of game

that if they are forced to sort of play a 60 minute game with the starters and you know the

when I say starters I mean just like the normal rotation.

You know, it's not a, it's not a given that they're going to beat Purdue convincingly next week.

It's not a given that if you struggle with Northern Illinois, I think Miami of Ohio might be even better.

It's certainly possible that you go through your first five games and you don't get any games

where you get a chance to get your young guy some work.

So it is important from that standpoint of not only getting your young guy some work,

but also getting yourself into a situation where you know, if you just want to be able to minimize the snaps, that's really what it comes down to for me.

You want to make sure that you get out of this game where it's a get right game, it's a get healthy game,

it's a get fresh game before you go on the road next week to play Purdue.

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