Welcome, everyone to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast.

I'm Vince.

That's Brian.

And today we are talking about yet another big time commitment to the 2020.

This is a big one, Vince.

Yeah.

I mean, and frankly, Brian, this is a show we've been waiting to do for what feels like a very, very long time. Like a year since Irish invasion last year. This is what I'm saying. When we watched Braden dominate Irish invasion, we're like, yes, we got to get that guy. Yes, this is what I'm saying. No one's got to get that guy. And they have been working on it since then, if not before. And so obviously we are talking about Braden Parks.

He's the 6-3-300-pound Brother Rice, out of Brother Rice in Chicago, beat out-Oregon, primarily, plus

Ohio State was in there towards the end as well. It was those three for a while, and then

Ohio State and Braden kind of both went their separate ways because it was obvious that it was not going to be Ohio State.

Correct.

And so it came down to Oregon and Notre Dame.

And here we are with Braden Parks selecting Notre Dame.

He's a consensus four-star recruit top 100 on the IB board.

His junior stats look something like this, 61 tackles, 23 tackles for loss, 7 and a half sacks, 30 pressures,

five breakups, two, force fumbles, one interception.

He is officially the 23rd commitment in the 2027 class,

the 11th on the defensive side of the football, and the count it six,

sixth defensive lineman in the class.

So Brian, this is something else, man.

And like I said, I feel like we've been talking about Mr. Parks for quite some time.

He finally makes it official.

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