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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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Today's Rapid Fire topics include:
* Fill-in the blank…It’s blank that Notre Dame officially announced Ja’Juan Seider as running backs coach and associate head coach today.
* We have a long way to go until the actual start of the football season, but Notre Dame spring practice begins one month from today. Jason Onye is expected to be back with the Irish this spring after missing the last 11 games of the season for personal reasons. What should the realistic expectations for Onye be?
* Zack Martin says he wishes Notre Dame Stadium still had grass. Do you Buy or Sell it?
* Fill-in the blank: Notre Dame women’s basketball’s win over No. 11 Duke in their first game as the No. 1 team in the nation was BLANK.
* We hear comments from Irish women's head coach Niele Ivey on how she handled talking with her team about being ranked No. 1 before Monday's game against the Blue Devils.
* There are some who think Micah Shrewsberry's postgame rant this week was a bit contrived. Do you Buy or Sell that?
* After winning the Super Bowl, there have been plenty of people putting Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts among the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Why or why don’t you agree with that?
* Who are your top five current NFL quarterbacks?
* Beginning this spring with the 2025 ACC Baseball Championship, all 16 ACC teams will compete in a single-elimination conference tournament. The ACC had a round-robin style pool play format of 12 teams for several years, but they’ve expanded after the additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU to the conference. Under the new format, the top four seeds in the championship will be based off the performance in the regular season and will receive a double-bye into the quarterfinal round. Seeds 9-16 will begin the tournament with four first-round games. Do you Buy or Sell the new single-elimination format?
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Irish Breakdown discusses how a new College Football Playoff expansion proposal could impact Notre Dame. Athletic directors from the SEC and Big 10 will meet in New Orleans this week and they are expected to discuss proposals to expand the CFP to either 14 or 16 teams beginning in 2026. Either plan would come with multiple automatic bids guaranteed to the Power 4 conferences.
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IB Nation Sports Talk discusses the return of Mike Mickens to the Irish staff for 2025. Vince and Jesse talk about how big this news is and how it will effect the Irish moving forward.
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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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Notre Dame has found its new General Manager, with the program set to hire Mike Martin of the Detroit Lions. The Irish Breakdown team discusses what this move means for Notre Dame, both from the standpoint of what Martin brings and the way the program appears to be shifting its back office.
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Irish Breakdown closes the week with a Friday Rapid Fire edition of IB Nation Sports Talk. Today's topics include:
* News broke Friday that Notre Dame is set to hire Detroit Lions Director of Scouting Advancement Mike Martin as the football team’s new general manager. Martin spent the last four years in Detroit’s front office, where he helped turn a perennially losing organization into one of the top teams in the NFL over the last two years. We share our thoughts on Marcus Freeman going the NFL route to fill the vacancy as well as the possibility of Auburn's Kenyatta Watson working with Martin in a recruiting/player personnel role.
* We discuss comments from former Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden, who was named the Broyles Award winner as the nation's top college football assistant coach for the 2024 season.
* Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that Golden also said that Irish secondary coach Mike Mickens will be up for the Broyles Award very soon.
* Fill-in the blank...We started the week talking about the fact that Penn State running backs coach Ja’Juan Seider is likely to replace Deland McCullough in the same position here at Notre Dame. Nothing’s official yet...but it’s BLANK that Seider posted a photo of Notre Stadium from an airplane to his IG story yesterday and he also has a picture of Jeremiyah Love as his IG avatar photo.
* Eight former Notre Dame players got invites to the NFL Draft Combine: Riley Leonard, Beaux Collins, Howard Cross, Rylie Mills, Benjamin Morrison, Mitchell Evans, Jack Kiser, and Xavier Watts. Who has the most to gain?
* We got word this week that Notre Dame’s spring football practice will begin on March 18th. We already knew it will end with the Blue-Gold game on April 12th. What do you think?
* Fill-in the blank...Olivia Miles and Sonia Citron combining for 12 3-pointers in Thursday’s win over Pittsburgh is BLANK.
* After USC handed No. 1 UCLA it’s first loss of the season, on a scale of 1 to 10...What chance do you give the Irish to be the new No. 1 team when the new polls come out Monday?
* This got buried in the Super Bowl last week...The NFL will play its first game in Australia in 2026. There will also be a game in Dublin this season with the Pittsburgh Steelers playing an opponent that will be announced later. Do you Buy or Sell them?
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