Back for another edition of Tracking the Trail, our recruiting podcast at Irish Illustrated.

I'm Kevin Sinclair, joined by Eric Thomas.

We were talking before the podcast, essentially not wanting to get into sort of beating a dead horse territory.

We've been talking about this handful of, you know, ongoing

2025 recruitments. Those who took official visits throughout June, we're now in early July.

It's the dead period, which, you know, it's quite dead at times, but we have these sort of

looming and lingering 2025 recruitments. Notre Dame, you know, but we have these sort of looming and lingering 2025 recruitments.

Notre Dame, you know, appearing to have its foot in the door with a wider, you know,

range of 2026 prospects that we continue to sort of dig into. We'll talk a little bit about that.

First, we'll talk, though, about these remaining 2025 prospects one of them who took an

official visit later in the official visit season an in-state recruit who was offered not

long ago committing elsewhere Eric why don't you start there I know you spoke with

John Anthony Hall more than once committed to Stanford recently. Let's get into that.

Yeah. Look, obviously, the Notre Dame wide receiver recruiting path in this cycle is a little bit

interesting. There was a change in head coach. There's been a number of offers that came after the

transition, really Derek Meadows being one of the,

the only remaining targets, the only remaining target, I think, that was offered by Chancy Stucky.

So it's sort of an overhaul in that position group. Johnny Anthony Hall was the latest offer

of the group. He was someone who immediately after Notre Dame offered him.

There was a really a groundswell of momentum around the Irish, and it seemed like they were

really launching themselves to the forefront of his conversation.

That was for a number of reasons.

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