Irish Breakdown - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Been following ND football deeply for decades , this us by far the best, most insightful on the ND beat. Only one(other than Prister)that really knows player evaluation. Good recruiting coverage also. Some of these other Reviews are so stupid, they’re not worth paying attention to. If you’re a smart football fan that’s interested in learning about ND, this is easily the best

The IB guys bring a tremendous amount of coverage with great insight. They are clearly connected to the program and recruits and have a good understanding of the game and break things down well. Thanks IB!

This is the go-to channel for Notre Dame Fighting Irish football podcasts. Daily info. Daily analysis. Daily commentary. Daily everything ND football. Plenty of staff perspectives that prevent single-minded analysis.

Incredibly informative and insightful. Love the analysis from football minds more educated than my own.

At times find myself frustrated by Brian cutting his co-hosts off every. single. time. they open their mouths… Let these guys complete a thought man.

Love IB. Love IB Nation. Love the guys and their shows. Please recognize, I AM A HUGE FAN!

That said, this is a review page so I am offering my honest feedback on the podcast presentation, not the content.

HATE THE FEED!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am not sure if the decision was made to split an individual show into multiple smaller chunks for the podcast stream to make it easier to listen or to try to inflate stats of listeners or downloads. Either way, it is killing my feed.

I follow probably about 10 podcasts regularly using the Apple app. I’m not joking that right now there are exactly 18 shorter IB episodes at the top of my feed published in the last 2 days.

I know it’s Ohio State week, and you have a lot of content, but this is ridiculous. It’s not just this week either. 1 typical show is usually split into 3 shorter episodes almost daily.

Not only does this make it very difficult to follow my other podcasts, it also makes listening to IB very difficult.

The publication order is often out of sequence and I have to start multiple episodes to figure out the correct order. I struggle to always know which different shows are which.

I know I can limit downloads using the app, but then I miss shows or parts of shows. Like many, I cannot listen for 3 or more hours daily. So if I don't, and I limit downloads, I miss things when I try to catch up.

Heck, there was even a possible incorrect stream in the feed once this past week. Host I have never heard that didn’t introduce himself interviewing another person I didn’t know. Maybe that was bonus content. Maybe it was a mistake. Either way, really hard on a listener.

I am BEGGING the guys at IB to adjust their publication strategy and have mercy on this listener. 1 episode per show, clearly labeled and titled.

1. This podcast used to be good but as another reviewer said there are too many ads! Every 10 mins or so you have to listen to a minimum of 2 mins to as many as 4 mins of ads! I listen to 5 other ND podcasts and another 12 national podcasts and none of them have as many ads as Irish Breakdown. 2. They do all their shows on YouTube first, but they take several days before they upload their shows as a podcast. Basically trying to force you to watch their YouTube shows. The only exception to this is when the show has an expiration date. Eg It’s news that less people will download after a few days so they upload those YouTube shows as podcasts quickly.