Welcome to the latest episode of the Shamrock.

Pete Sampson joined, as always, when I'm a co-host, Matt Fortuna.

We're about three weeks away from the Gator Bowl, Notre Dame versus South Carolina, I think since our last

podcast.

Michael Mayer and Isaiah Foskey both have opted out to declare for the NFL draft.

Some Notre Dame opponent news.

Notre Dame will have faced new coaches at Louisville, Stanford, and Navy next year.

The Mackey Award sent everyone clutching their pearls around Notre Dame in a tizzy.

And look, I get it.

Mayor was a freaky, incredible talent.

Dylan Aller's decommitted, which if you listen to another podcast on the athletic, the Andy Staples show,

I think they were sort of cheering that on because they give them something else to talk about

with relative to Dion Sanders.

And then Notre Dame's Transfer Portal Hunt continues still without a quarterback.

One of their top receivers, Keegan Johnson from Iowa actually committed to Kansas State over the weekend. And I'm told he actually canceled a visit to Notre Dame to do that, which was a little bit of surprise. But, Matt, we've got a lot of odds and ends to cover. Where did you want to start? Because there's a lot, a lot of places we could go to open the pod. There's a lot, but nothing that's like all that mind-blowing are surprising during a stretch in the calendar and the college football calendar where there's just so many left turns. I was in Vegas last week for the college football Hall of Fame and sports business journal panels. And that's kind of the meeting point for a lot of

ADs around the country. And I saw some people with South Bend and Notre Dame Ties there. And they said,

you know, it's about as calm and copacetic as a time period in South Bend at this time of the

calendar years, they can remember. Right. I mean, obviously, it's never a great thing when you're

starting quarterback decides enter the transfer portal before the bowl game. But, uh, Nick,

mayor and Foskey, that's the norm, right? That's expected. I think a lot of people freaked out when Karen Williams and Kyle Hamilton did it last year, but like, that's reality right now, especially when you're playing for the Gator Bowl and not for a New Year 6 game with legitimate, you know, top five consequences.

So, yes, Dylan Edwards, surprising on the surface, if you read our colleague Ari Wasserman, that wasn't like Dion sprinkling pixie dust and convincing Dylan Edwards to ditch Notre Dame.

There was a deep, deep relationship that goes back many years.

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