Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider, brought to you by Irish Illustrated.com with Pete Samson and Tim O'Malley.

I'm Tim Priester. We're back from soggy Raleigh. It wasn't soggy on Sunday. It was sunny and beautiful in Raleigh, believe it or not.

But we're back from the 10-3 NC State victory over Notre Dame.

Obviously, very difficult conditions in which to play.

A lot of debate about whether the game should have been played.

It's my contention that had it been played in perfect conditions on Sunday.

It just would have been a high-scoring NC state win

because we would have seen the real NC state offense,

I think, in their passing game,

would have been capable of doing much more against Nardame.

But it was played 10 to 3,

Nordame now 2 and 4,

and they got a real task ahead of them against a struggling Stanford team,

but still a Stanford team that is

capable of playing physical football. Yeah, I am in the camp that, not that it shouldn't have

been played, it just shouldn't have been played at noon. I mean, there's no reason you can't move it

to Saturday morning, Friday night, Saturday night, Sunday morning, Sunday at noon.

There was enough information out there ahead of time to know that that was going to be the worst time of the weekend.

And it's not, I didn't, I didn't have a problem with the game being played because of

player safety or the fans are wet.

Can't go home.

It's just like this, it wasn't a football game.

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