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Bryan Driskell – A former college football coach, Bryan has been covering Notre Dame football for over a decade.
Sean Stires – A long-time radio host in South Bend, Sean is the host of IB Nation Sports Talk and the play-by-play announcer for the Notre Dame Women’s Basketball team.
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Notre Dame landed eight players in its portal class for the 2025 season and the group has a chance to be outstanding. In part one of today’s show, Bryan and Trevor discuss what they saw from the players already on campus and what to expect from those showing up this summer.
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Today's Rapid Fire topics include: We discuss comments from Syracuse insider Brian Higgins on where former Notre Dame quarterback Steve Angeli stands after transferring to the Orange, we guess what Syracuse's season over/under win total is, which current Notre Dame players could be ranked in the top four of their position groups heading into next year's NFL Draft, what will we remember the most about Xavier Watts, Riley Leonard, Benjamin Morrison and Jack Kiser from their time at Notre Dame, thoughts on Roger Goodell's idea to shorten the first round of the draft, and we hear a clip from Bill Belichick's recent interview on CBS.
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Irish Breakdown is joined by Brian Higgins from ESPN Syracuse to discuss where quarterback Steve Angeli stands after transferring from Notre Dame to Syracuse. What does his path to starting look like after Orange head coach Fran Brown named LSU transfer Rickie Collins the starter before the spring game? Higgins and Sean Stires talk about more of Brown's impactful first season as head coach and more.
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Notre Dame only had 6 players taken in the 2025 NFL Draft, which is very low for a team that has as much success as they did in 2024. There’s a reason for that, and the reason bodes well not only for the team’s on-field success in 2025, but it puts them in position to have great success in the 2026 and 2027 NFL Drafts.
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Bryan and Shaun discuss where Notre Dame players were selected in the 2025 NFL Draft
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Notre Dame landed a big commitment over the weekend when Florida corner Ayden Pouncey joined the 2026 class. Bryan and Shaun break down this commitment, from the back story to the film to what’s next.
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Today's Rapid Fire topics include: Thoughts on NFL Draft analysis from The Athletic doubting Riley Leonard's athleticism, thoughts on a CBS Sports 2026 mock NFL Draft that has Notre Dame players Malachi Fields, Jeremiyah Love and Charles Jagusah all going in the first round, is it concerning that Notre Dame didn't have any players drafted in the first round this year, thoughts on Shedeur Sanders, and predicting Alabama football's over/under win total for the season.
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Irish Breakdown ranks the top 20 offensive players on the Notre Dame football roster on today's show. See where Sean Stires and Vince DeDario have CJ Carr, Kenny Minchey, Jeremiyah Love and many others!
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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish! We had to break it into four shows! Here is part four.
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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish! We had to break it into four shows! Here is part three.
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