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Quarterback Champ Monds And Defensive End Aidan O'Neil Commit To Notre Dame

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Irish Breakdown

Nfl Draft, Football, Notre Dame, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Sports

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bryan Driskell joins Sean Stires to discuss Friday's big commitments of QB Champ Monds and DE Aidan O'Neil to Notre Dame

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show.

0:17.0

Glad to have you with us here today.

0:19.4

It is a big day in fighting irish line the fighting

0:24.3

irish of uh notre dame picked up a couple of commitments today vince adario and jesse steyers are

0:31.3

going to join me in a little bit but we are starting the show today i didn't even notice

0:35.8

brian the last time i saw you, you're,

0:38.2

getting a little bit, a little bit more silver. Oh, man, it's been on for a while. It just depends

0:43.0

on when I, when it gets thicker, it's more noticeable. Yeah. So I'm in need of a good shave,

0:49.0

looking like an old geyser, but you know what? Wear it with pride, baby. That's right. That's right. I'm still brown

0:56.6

up here, you know, up top, but you know, yeah, this, this is the stress of coaching football and

1:02.2

being married for 18 years. Tell me about it. Tell me about it. You've got me beat with the

1:07.2

up top. At least yours could legitimately grow out if you really wanted to my dad's 71 and

1:13.3

he's only in the last four or five years starting getting a little bit of gray hair he's still

1:17.3

mostly brown so yeah hopefully hopefully i get that yeah from his side my mom was was basically

1:23.3

almost 100% gray by the time she was in her early boy i didn't i like that. In her 30s, she had to start dyeing her hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got my first, I got my first gray. I think I was 13. I was in seventh grade. Who. First grade here. So you had lived a stressful childhood, brother. I used to tell people, no, I was in shop class. We were painting today. There you go. That'll work. That'll play. That'll play. All right. We've got other stuff to talk about. Like I said, two big commitments for Notre Dame today. Marcus Freeman in the fighting Irish picked up one on each side of the ball. Six foot five, 250 pound. Eddrescher, Aiden O'Neill from Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey,

2:05.4

got the ball rolling this morning, and then six foot two inch, 225 pound quarterback,

2:11.0

wonderful champ Mons, the fourth from Vero Beach, Florida, announced his commitment later this

2:16.4

afternoon or earlier this afternoon on ESPN.

2:19.9

So those are the two commitments, O'Neill and Mons, both in the class of 2027.

2:25.6

O'Neill picked Notre Dame over Kentucky and Penn State.

2:29.0

Those were his finalists, a long list of others, obviously, as well prior to that.

2:33.1

Mon's decision came down to Notre Dame, Florida State, and Ohio State.

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