Piece by piece, Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame are filling spots vacated after the Fighting Irish's captivating run last month to the College Football Playoff title game.
After losing promising young wide receivers assistant Michael Bearden to the NFL's Cleveland Browns, Notre Dame needed to find another staffer to help assist Mike Brown.
Sources tell FootballScoop that the task has been completed.
Dom Spalding, who's assisted most recently at Big Ten program Northwestern and previously logged multiple seasons at Youngstown State, is joining Freeman's Notre Dame program as an offensive analyst, multiple sources tell FootballScoop. He'll specifically work with the Irish's wide receivers corps.
Spalding's brother, Devon, is the running backs coach at Wisconsin.
The Irish have had a busy four-week stretch since they fell to Ohio State Jan. 20 in the CFP Championship.
Al Golden, the program's Broyles Award-winning defensive coordinator, returned to the NFL's Cincinnati Bengals to take over their defense; he took with him well-regarded, four-year Notre Dame staff veteran Mike Moon.
Additionally, Chad Bowden -- primary architect of the Irish roster that played for the CFP crowd -- bolted Notre Dame to take over as general manager at USC, where Bowden received a four-year contract worth seven figures annually, sources told FootballScoop.
Last week, as FootballScoop detailed, Notre Dame hired away Mike Martin from the Detroit Lions as its new general manager.
Sources told FootballScoop that Martin is expected to begin his new role Tuesday, and Spalding also is slated to join the Irish staff this week.