IB Nation Sports Talk: Niele Ivey Interview, Jack Swarbrick/Pete Bevaqua Succession Plan

Irish Breakdown has plenty of Notre Dame conversation on today's show, including Thursday's breaking Jack Swarbrick news

Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Niele Ivey joins Irish Breakdown’s Sean Stires for a one on one conversation. Topics include:

* Notre Dame opening the upcoming season against South Carolina in Paris, France.

* Taking the Irish to Croatia for a summer tour.

* Jack Swarbrick stepping down as athletic director and Peter Bevaqua taking over.

* Thoughts on incoming transfers Anna DeWolfe and Becky Obinma.

* Thoughts on incoming freshmen Hannah Hidalgo and Emma Risch.

* NIL impact on recruiting.

* An update on Olivia Miles’ injury progress.

* Having Irish football coach Marcus Freeman as a women’s basketball super fan.

* Her son Jaden Ivey’s young career.

We have more to discuss in Rapid Fire. The list of topics is below.

Rapid Fire starts with a discussion on Thursday's announcement that Jack Swarbrick will step down as Notre Dame athletic director and NBC Sports chairman and Notre Dame alum Pete Bevaqua will eventually take over. Other topics include:

* Fill-in the blank....It’s BLANK that ESPN.com did a ranking of the top 25 schools with the top incoming transfers and freshman combined and Notre Dame is not on the list.

* Which sport would you rather see Notre Dame play a home and home series vs Purdue: men’s basketball or football?

* Everyone got excited a few weeks ago with the announcement that EA Sports would pay players to use their name, image and likenesses in next year’s return of their college football video game. Now news has come out that the College Football Players Association is urging eligible players to boycott the use of their likeness in the game due to the reported payment of $500 per player. What do you make of this situation?

* Baseball’s new pitch clock rules have been pretty well received...but there has been push back as well. Some fans are calling for lower ticket prices because of the shorter game times. Do you Buy or Sell that?

* Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that according to the New York Post umpires refer to New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone as "Karen" in their circles.

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