I.B. Nation, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. That's Ryan Roberts. I'm Brian Driscoll.

And it's been long-awaited news, Ryan. No one's shocked by it, but you know what? The minute you hear it,

you still get fired up. J. Don Blair commits to Notre Dame. This is a big one, Ryan. It is this

right here, man. This is a gap closer. This is a gap closing kid. We'll talk about the safety

class as a whole. But for right now, this is a big one for Notre Dame,

Ryan. It's been a long haul, twists and turns we'll get into. But Jay Don Blair is now in

the class. You just added a top 50 football player to your class. Yeah, I mean, I think he's a top 50

football player that has legit five-star upside. Like if Jaydon Blair ended up as a top 25 player in the class when all of a sudden done, I would not be shocked even one bit. I mean, you just don't often get kids that are 6 foot 4 plus

that are 190 pounds that can play center field, that can come down into the box, they can

play in this lot of times. He's, he is a rare football player. I feel like we use the word generational,

rare, like those types of words way too often.

But I mean, literally the size profile combined with movement skills, he has rare upside that

he can bring to the table. And this is one that we have felt good about. If you're a message board

member at Borsetarsighton.com, you know that we have felt confident about this one for three months at this point.

Like it's been a very long time.

And as you mentioned, like every recruitment, there was some twist and turns, some things to figure out,

some obstacles, all those types of things.

But regardless, this was one that just always felt like it was going to happen because if you talk to Jadon,

you talk to his family, you talk to the people around him, you talk to Notre Dame if you talk to Jadon, you talk to his family, you talk to the people

around him, you talk to Notre Dame, you talk, whoever you talk about, this kid's a Notre Dame

kid. And we use that cliche a lot, obviously, but soft spoken, academically oriented, great

family, really sees the long term over the short term in a lot of instances. This is a great

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