Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by our friends over at Fandul.

Happy Wednesday, everybody, and you know what we're talking about today?

We're talking about the keys to victory in Notre Dame's matchup this Saturday against the Pittsburgh Panthers, top 25 matchup,

likely Notre Dame's last top 25 matchup of the regular

season.

But Brian, before we get there, there's some exciting news.

And we have a commitment today.

2027 safety, Khalil Terry announced his commitment about a little over a half an hour ago.

And now you know why we waited until 2 o'clock to go live.

There's always a method to the madness.

But Khalil Terry is a four-star safety commit rated by On3.

He's a number 130th ranked player in the country.

The 13th best safety, according to On-3.

He's from Tustin High School in California. Brian, another big commitment from Mike Denbrock. This is, it's another quality, really high-end secondary piece to this 20-7, starting the 2027 class. Yeah, I mean, it's just kind of like you almost expect it, right? Like, oh, Mike Mickens is going to have another good defensive back class so I'm so shocked I mean it

it's a it's going to be no this is a good one I think this is an interesting one trev because I I would

have said when he visited in April I might have even said this publicly like it's highly unlikely that

I think Notre Dame is going to get a kid like Kelly Lattery just you know California kid

public school kid in California just not an area where Notre Dame does well. And they did well, you know, with Mike Mickens. And I think it, you know,

the success that we've seen from them in the secondary and the job that Mike Mickens has done

has certainly played a big role in their ability to go out and get a kid like this. He visited

for the blue gold game

and, you know, it went well, but you're just like, I don't really know if this is one that's

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