IB Nation Sports Talk: Notre Dame Radio Voice Tony Simeone Talks Irish Football And Men's Basketball

Irish Breakdown is joined by Notre Dame football and men's basketball radio play-by-play announcer Tony Simeone on today's show. Simeone talks with IB's Sean Stires about is first season calling Fighting Irish football and shares his thoughts on Marcus Freeman, radio partner and ND alum Ryan Harris, ND men's basketball and more. Later, IB's Vince DeDario joins Stires for Notre Dame football topics and more in Rapid Fire. See the list of topics below!

Today's Rapid Fire topics include:

* Fill-in the blank: The Notre Dame football player who surprised you the most last season was BLANK.

* Fill-in the blank: The biggest surprise player for the Irish this season will be BLANK.

* Micah Shrewsberry has the No. 8 recruiting class in the nation entering school this year. He also just picked up a pair of commitments from top 100 players for the 2026 class. On a scale of 1 to 10: How confident are you that Shrewsberry’s Irish will be in the NCAA Tournament in the next two years?

* Do they need to be in the tournament this year?

* We guess the over/under season win total for Florida State today.

* Interesting college football TV news this week. ESPN is reportedly finalizing a deal to sublicense one College Football Playoff semifinal game a year to TNT, in addition to the first round games TNT already has. TNT would broadcast one CFP semifinal a year in 2026, 2027 and 2028. Are you in or out on TNT getting CFP semifinals?

* There’s a report that ESPN could boot Doris Burke from its No. 1 NBA booth, which includes Mike Breen and Richard Jefferson, next year. It’s not certain if she’ll be replaced or if they’ll go with just two people in the booth. Do you Buy or Sell three-person broadcast booths? 

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2025 Scholarship Chart
2025 Football Schedule

Notre Dame 2026 Scholarship Offers

2025 Commit Rankings - Offense
2025 Commit Rankings - Defense

2024 Recruiting Class
2023 Recruiting Class
2022 Recruiting Class

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