Sorry if I missed it, hoping for the best here but any update on his injury?

@Adam Gorney shares his thoughts on if Notre Dame is the leader for four-star LB Madden Faraimo.


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If Carr comes out of next spring as the clear front runner?

I asked Grubbs if he was considering a reclass considering the QB shakeup recently and he said he's staying in 2026:

"I’m not reclassing," Grubbs said. "I believe waiting another year and not rushing is what’s best for me and my timing at Notre Dame."

Notre Dame football will be back on the road Thursday. The Irish are sending head coach Marcus Freeman, offensive line coach Joe Rudolph and defensive line coach Al Washington to make some recruiting visits.

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The final two pieces to the Notre Dame 2024-25 women’s basketball schedule fell into place on Tuesday, and there’s a common theme with the previously announced segments of it.

Challenging.

The Irish will play two teams in the 2024 Cayman Islands Classic over Thanksgiving weekend, both of which surpassed the 20-win threshold last season — TCU (21-12) on Nov. 29 and Utah (22-11).

Notre Dame is ranked sixth in ESPN’s recently updated “Way Too Early” Top 25. The Irish in 2024-25 will face No. 2 UConn, No. 3 USC, No. 5 Texas, No. 9 NC State. No. 10 Duke, No. 13 North Carolina, No. 19 Florida State, and they’ll play No. 17 Louisville twice.

Utah was among a handful of teams listed that garnered consideration but didn’t land in the Top 25.

The season tips off with an Oct. 30 exhibition game at home against Davenport, with the regular season opener set for Nov. 4 at Purcell Pavilion against Mercyhurst.

Although TCU missed the NCAA Tournament last season and every season since 2010, coach Mark Campbell is now entering his second season and added three key transfers to the roster: Hailey Van Lith, Sedona Prince and Maddie Scherr.

Van Lith joins the Horned Frogs after three years at Louisville and last season at LSU. She is the only active Division I player with at least 1,900 career points, 500 rebounds and 350 assists.

Prince and Scherr both played for Campbell while he was the associate head coach at Oregon from 2015-21. Prince was a finalist for last season's Lisa Leslie Award and was All-Big 12 Honorable Mention after posting 19.7 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.9 blocks per game.

Scherr most recently was at Kentucky where she started 55 games over two seasons and averaged 12 points and 5 rebounds per game.

Utah, meanwhile, has made the NCAA Tournament in three consecutive seasons and reached the Sweet 16 in 2023. Led by head coach Lynne Roberts, Utah went 22-11 (11-7) last season with Alissa Pili, who averaged 21.4 points per game. She has since moved on to the WNBA.

Utah does, however, return several impact players. Junior Gianna Kneepkens averaged 17.8 points per game last year and was named to the All-Pac-12 Team. Point guard Inês Vieira is back for her senior year after dishing out 200 assists last season (13th in the nation). Vieira was named to the All-Pac-12 Defensive Team and was All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention.

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It's time for Game 5 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for No. 16 Notre Dame's home game against No. 15 Louisville on Saturday.

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Just in case you're anti-Peacock and haven't seen the game, Notre Dame has now shared the full Louisville game on its YouTube page:

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Notre Dame was a 6 1/2 point favorite. They won by 7 and all I hear is how bad they played
And coached. And last week a 25 point win and all I heard was crying.

Former Notre Dame quarterback Joe Theismann (1968-70) discusses ND's start to the season, what Riley Leonard's been and what he can become as ND's quarterback, a comparison of Leonard and Jayden Daniels, the difference coaching makes at the position, the pressure of playing QB at ND, how he got the attention of ND's coaching staff as a freshman, playing for assistant coach Wally Moore, what he thinks of Marcus Freeman, his dislike for NIL, what receiving the Knute Rockne Spirit of Sports Living Legend Award means to him and more.

Then @Eric Hansen and I answer questions from Twitter and The Insider Lounge (34:37).

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Notre Dame's first recruiting trips of the bye week are scheduled to occur today (Wednesday).

The Irish are sending head coach Marcus Freeman and defensive backs coach Mike Mickens out of town ahead of other staff members hitting the road on Thursday and Friday.

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Sorry for the delay here. Tyler hinted at this is his heat index update this morning. He was driving to MBB media day and I was on a special WBB podcast with Cass Prosper that will drop later this week when word came down.

Notre Dame men's basketball head coach Micah Shrewsberry met with local reporters Tuesday afternoon for the program's Media Day. Here's everything he had to say.

Answers are largely verbatim. Questions may have been edited for brevity and clarity.

MICAH SHREWSBERRY

How’d you do as reporter today? (Shrewsberry was interviewing players for a video the program is producing.)

“Anytime we can have a little fun with these guys, we want to do it. We work hard, but we enjoy our time together. This is a group I love being around. It’s good to get some laughs in.”

Did Cole Certa know how to spell Nikita Konstantynovskyi’s last name?

“He got the first — he got Konstant and then he was done after that. Now we just need to work on Nikita spelling Cole’s first name correctly. He said ‘K’ instead of ‘C.’ I don’t know. Maybe it’s something native.”

Anything new or surprising since we talked to you last week about practice?

“Playing with seven guys on a team when you split teams up — one team’s got seven, the other team’s got seven — you’re doing a lot of stuff up and down. You’re playing a lot. Guys are getting tired. We’re kind of charting our progress right now, especially offensively, in what we’re doing. We’re taking the right shots. We’re shooting it where we want to shoot it. We’re shooting good percentages on the shots we want to get to. I think our 3-point percentage will continue to go up as we start getting our legs under us, as we start getting in better shape. Especially with the pace that we want to play at, I think it will go up as well. No other surprises. We still have a ways to go defensively. We need to work on some different things, especially offensively, with how people try and guard us and what they’re going to do to counter those things.”

We just talked to a bunch of them. They’re all pretty confident and excited for the year. How much do you like the fact that they’re not shy about chasing big dreams this year?

“They should. We don’t want to hide from anything. They should have expectations. We have a confident group. We have a tough group. We have a group that’s together. When you put those things all in the mix, that adds to some good stuff that can happen. We’re fired up about it. I love coming in here every single day with these guys.”

How much easier will it be to play an aggressive style with a deeper bench this year?

“Being able to play the way we want to play. But then there’s hard choices to make too. You can’t play everybody. But we’re going to try to with the pace that we’re going to play at. We can try and enforce our will and try and wear people down the best that we can. So we can play at the same pace from the start of the game through the end of the game.”

How is Markus Burton better than a year ago?

“His decision-making has continued to improve. His trust level with the guys on this team — seeing the different pieces that we have, playing with different guys at different times, he’s really trusting everybody to make plays. He doesn’t feel like he has to do it himself. That part of it. But he’s done a great job of scoring it. He’s shooting it and scoring it in different ways. His game has continued to evolve offensively all within the structure of what we’re trying to do.”

How does it raise the competition level when there’s tough rotation decisions to make?

“It doesn’t matter how we split the teams, they are almost always pretty even. I could have an idea of, ‘Hey, we’re going to split this here.’ You never know who’s winning. That’s the biggest thing. We’re tracking stats in practice. We’re tracking wins and losses, too. This is a big point for us right now. How are we playing as a group? But how the different groups play well together. That’s how we kind of form who’s going to play.”

What’s it been like to be a part of the recruiting buzz you’ve created the past couple weeks?

“It’s a credit to the staff’s hard work. It hasn’t been easy. It’s a lot of hours, a lot of man power, a lot of time. We talk about family, but it truly is family. It’s my wife hosting families on the weekends during football weekends. It’s some of our assistant coaches’ wives not seeing their husbands for a while. There’s a lot of sacrifice that goes into this. But to feel the buzz, it’s a great credit, especially for our staff, for our staff’s families. But then it’s also a testament to the guys on our team. They’ve been some of the biggest recruiters that we’ve had. Everybody has loved spending time with our freshmen. Not just them, but everybody on our team. We have a great group of guys that people want to be around. We have a great system that we’re going to play. We have an unbelievable university and alumni base and everything else that we can sell. It makes it easy for us when you’re recruiting the right kids.”

If last year was a reset year for this program, what can this year be?

“We need to continue to step forward. We can get closer to how we want to play, the vision of how we wanted to play. For me, that changes from year to year. I don’t think you can look at one year and see the exact same thing the next year, especially in a style of play or a system of what we do. But how we move the ball, how we share the ball, how we compete, how fast we want to play, all of those things can begin to show themselves. Now you can start showing more film. Now I can show less Penn State basketball when I’m recruiting, and I can show more Notre Dame basketball. We’re getting closer to that phase right now.”

What’s been the most rewarding process of getting those 2025 commits?

“The most rewarding is just seeing the hard work pay off. Sometimes you have no clue. Somebody I was talking to said, ‘It’s like turning on a faucet.’ Once you turn it on, it can get rolling. But if it never gets turned on, that’s a struggle too. We were at a struggle for a while. 2025 has been a slower cycle for recruiting across the country. You never know what’s going to happen. It just so happened for us at one time. The payoff, the hours that you put in, the time, but also the plan. This has been, since I got the job last year, what we’ve pointed towards and what we’ve tried to do. Now you’re kind of seeing that coming to fruition a little bit.”

What’s your sense for those recruits not just buying into you or Notre Dame but the growth you saw on the court last season?

“That growth is what we’re pointing towards. I don’t know if they could always see it. But you can in stretches. Now you can see it more consistently. But we continue to keep building. What we want to do is stack good classes on top of good classes and keep adding good players. I love the foundation that we have. We’re getting back to a little bit old school, where you feel good about your seniors next year. You feel good about the junior class that will be there. You feel good about the freshman now that will be sophomores. Now the group that’s coming in, keep stacking classes together of guys that fit. Now your vision can start to come out for everybody to see it. Instead of just being my vision and showing a couple people, now more and more people start to see it, start to buy into it and start to believe in it.”

How are you handling the uncertainty of scholarship math and whether the settlement goes through to allow 15 scholarships?

“You have to sell an opportunity. If you get to 15 scholarships, it’s hard to sell opportunity. You’re just asking for people to transfer is what you’re asking for. If I tell you, you have an opportunity, and there’s 14 people on the roster next to you, you’re like, ‘How? When? Where?’ But we can point to it. It’s a constant math problem, I guess, to figure out what’s best. We always want to do best for our university. We always want to do what’s best for our program. Sometimes that’s not going to that number, because we want to retain our guys. How do we retain them? We show them that they have an opportunity to play here. We show them that they have an opportunity to have a role here. You can do that when it’s not a full boat.”

Any word on the status of Faison's injury? He is a difference maker. His speed and diving hit on the punter knocked the ball toward the goal line and enabled Kennedy Urlacher to recover it inside Louisville's 5-yard line. And his spin move and run after catching the pass - on the play on which he was injured - was a big momentum play for ND. I'm hoping he will be able to play again this season (and for the lacrosse team as well) ... ☘️ 🏈🏒☘️

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Every call is ND got lucky. It’s always how great the other team is and their players. I’m usually not one to bag on the announcers but I can’t stand him.

Tyler, Eric you hearing anything about ND flipping a 4* athlete from UCF today?

Here's the Irish Access video from Fighting Irish Media on Notre Dame's victory over Louisville.

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The Heat Index has been updated with the following changes:

QB Deuce Knight’s blurb in quarterback section now reflects his fourth visit to Auburn this season.
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TE T’Andre Waverly’s debut on The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Medium.
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TE Andrew Olesh’s debut on The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Plain.
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WR Antavious Richardson’s heat rating has been upgraded from Medium to Hot.
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WR Isaiah Mizell's heat rating has been upgraded from Plain to Hot.
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DT Jalen Wiggins’ return to The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Mild.
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DT Tim Griffin’s debut on The Heat Index comes with a heat rating of Plain.
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LB Madden Faraimo’s heat check now reflects his latest visit to Notre Dame.
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Just got a pair of tickets for the UVA game. The lucky lady I’m dating has never been to a ND game, and is super excited to go.

The first time we get stuffed on 4th and short, I hope I don’t blow a gasket in front of her. 😂😉

45 a ticket, plus tax fyi