I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. For those of you who

might have forgot about me, my name is Brian Driscoll. I am the owner and publisher here at

Irish Breakdown, joined by Sean Davis from Lucky Lefty and also from Irish Breakdown, always part of the crew and the family.

And we are back, Sean.

We are a week and a half away from Notre Dame kicking off spring practice.

We're going to have a lot to say about that, including, you know, kind of clearing the air on some things that are out there that aren't true.

Now this is kind of my first chance to really

address it in today's show. And we're going to talk about the Notre Dame team. Well, we're going to

talk about recruiting, R. We're going to talk about the team, Notre Dame team, T. And then we're

going to have a college football topic, CF. And so today, Sean, you and I are going to talk about

some of the biggest questions we have about this nerding football team heading in its spring.

And questions doesn't mean concerns.

Questions can also just mean, I don't know.

And I'm curious to see how it's going to go.

And that's a lot more of where our questions are going to be focused on from when Sean and I were prepping for the show.

It's not so much, gee, I'm worried about this.

I'm worried about this. I'm worried about that. It's like, here's some things we don't know about the team and there's questions we have

that we need to see. And so we want to see, you know, how those things play out. So we'll look

at that. We'll talk about from a recruiting standpoint, is Notre Dame losing momentum on the

recruiting trail? Have they missed their opportunity to really hit a home run after the 2014 season,

the 14 and two season they had in 2024.

We'll talk about that, of course.

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