It happens every year, when players leave others step up. You'll see break out players every season, and there are plenty of candidates this year. Part one of today's show makes predictions for breakouts on the Notre Dame offense.

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Rapid Fire topics include:

* We rank the importance of spring practice for Jayden Harrison, Jayden Thomas, Jaden Mickey, Jaden Greathouse, and Jaiden Ausberry.

* What impact will Sam Hartman’s extensive college experience will have when it comes to the NFL Draft?

* Do you Buy or Sell the idea of joint practices and/or scrimmages with other teams during spring practice?

* Fill-in the blank…Notre Dame men’s basketball beating Georgia Tech in their ACC Tournament opener after blowing a 17-point lead is BLANK.

* Which is the bigger move: Russell Wilson to the Pittsburgh Steelers or Kirk Cousins to the Atlanta Falcons? 

* With the Patriots are trading former first round pick Mac Jones Jacksonville for a sixth round pick…do you Buy or Sell Jones as an official bust?

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Rapid Fire topics include:

* We rank the importance of spring practice for Jayden Harrison, Jayden Thomas, Jaden Mickey, Jaden Greathouse, and Jaiden Ausberry.

* What impact will Sam Hartman’s extensive college experience will have when it comes to the NFL Draft?

* Do you Buy or Sell the idea of joint practices and/or scrimmages with other teams during spring practice?

* Fill-in the blank…Notre Dame men’s basketball beating Georgia Tech in their ACC Tournament opener after blowing a 17-point lead is BLANK.

* Which is the bigger move: Russell Wilson to the Pittsburgh Steelers or Kirk Cousins to the Atlanta Falcons? 

* With the Patriots are trading former first round pick Mac Jones Jacksonville for a sixth round pick…do you Buy or Sell Jones as an official bust?

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Rapid Fire topics include:

* A subscriber calls out Vince for his take on backup Irish quarterback Steve Angeli.

* Former Irish QB Drew Pyne has committed to Missouri. 

* Notre Dame men's basketball player Markus Burton is the ACC Rookie of the Year. 

* The Chicago Bears have shifted their stadium focus from moving out to the Arlington Heights suburbs to building a domed stadium south of where Soldier Field currently stands. Do you Buy or Sell a new lake front stadium over the previously proposed suburban stadium?

* A total of six players were ejected after a fight between South Carolina and LSU is the SEC women's championship game. We discuss the postgame comments of LSU head coach Kim Mulkey and South Carolina's Dawn Staley.

* Thoughts on Utah State's head coach announcing she had been fired after a season-ending Mountain West Conference press conference. 

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Notre Dame had a big weekend in Greensboro, N.C. at the ACC Tournament. Niele Ivey's Fighting Irish won the program's sixth ACC championship and IB's Sean Stires and Vince DeDario are talking about it on today's show. They discuss what it means for Notre Dame's NCAA hosting hopes, Hannah Hidalgo's play, Kylee Watson's injury, Maddy Westbeld, and more. 

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag is back! Loads of great questions from IB subscribers and listeners! We did our best to match the quality of the questions with high quality answers! Here is part four of today's show.

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag is back! Loads of great questions from IB subscribers and listeners! We did our best to match the quality of the questions with high quality answers! Here is part three of today's show.

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag is back! Loads of great questions from IB subscribers and listeners! We did our best to match the quality of the questions with high quality answers! Here is part two of today's show.

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag is back! Loads of great questions from IB subscribers and listeners! We did our best to match the quality of the questions with high quality answers! Here is part one of today's show.

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Rapid Fire topics include:

*How many of Notre Dame's first team offensive linemen at the start of the spring still be at the top of the depth chart by the end of the spring?

*Can Steve Angeli outplay Riley Leonard this spring?

*Fill-in the blank...Notre Dame women’s basketball’s 77-68 ACC Tournament quarterfinal win over Louisville today was BLANK. 

*Do you Buy or Sell...Making the NIT as a big accomplishment for the Notre Dame men’s basketball team? 

*With the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments on the horizon, the women’s game has the ultimate star in Caitlyn Clark with others like Angel Reese and Hannah Hidalgo. Do you think the lack of big names in the men’s game will impact interest in the men’s tournament this year? 

*Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that Fox sports is going to feature a prime time college football game on the main Fox broadcast channel every Friday night this fall.  

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