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

You guys know what that means. It is the midweek rundown where we're going to be covering a host of different topics today.

We're going to be talking about why Notre Dame is allegedly the most hated team in college football, according to some. We're going to be diving into the stars on the Notre Dame offense, or rather who we believe is going to be the stars on Notre Dame's offense. We're going to be doing the defense next week. Part three of today's show, we're going to be talking about some D-line recruiting, names to know on the edge and along the interior. And then part four today's show, which I'm actually really fascinated to dive into. I know Brian is as well. It's the TV rights deal and pooling rights and it's the SEC and the Big Ten versus everybody. And we're going to talk down to what all is going into this. What's the current argument for some of these things? What's the argument for change? So, man, it's going to be a great show today, Brian.

It is.

I'm very much looking forward to it.

A lot of interesting topics today, Trev. There's no doubt about it. You know, we're sitting here in the middle of February. We're actually beginning of March now. I said in the middle of February. What am I talking about? early, early March, we're 16 days away from the start of fall or spring practice.

I am in a hot mess today, Treb. And, you know, we're going to talk about a lot of different topics. Obviously, we've got some college football topics. We've got Notre Dame topics. We've got some recruiting topics. As we start to get to that period of time, we're talking about recruiting makes a little bit more sense to talk about it now. It's kind of pointless in January and most of February, but we're getting into

that point now where it means more. Guys are going to start visiting here in March and April.

And so we're going to start doing more of that. We talked quarterbacks this week. And so

we're going to go with the number one premium position on

offense last week. Now this week, we're going with the number one premium position on defense,

and that's the defensive line. So we're going to talk a little defensive line recruiting today,

and then watch some film. And then also, Trev, the part I'm looking forward to is we're going to

have a star power conversation.

Looking into the spring, who were the stars for the Notre Dame offense?

We all think we know who the stars are going to be.

But here's the reality.

Notre Dame had arguably one to three star players last year, in my opinion.

Maybe four.

The only one that comes back that's maybe in that conversation is C.J. Carr.

The others, Jeremiah Love, the bona fide, Jadion Price.

I think you can make a case when he was on the field.

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