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Tracking the Trail: July 9 Update

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Irish Illustrates’s Kevin Sinclair and Eric Thomas discuss the loss of blue-chip safety Ivan Taylor flipping to Michigan, which stings for Notre Dame fans. The guys also talked about several ongoing recruitments in the 2025 class at receiver and linebacker positions that are increasingly murky.

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0:00.0

Kevin Sinclair here with Irish Illustrated, joined by Eric Thomas.

0:08.4

We're back for another edition of Tracking the Trail, our recruiting podcast at Irish

0:13.1

Illustrated.

0:14.4

Been a pretty active few days.

0:17.5

A lot of, you know, the remaining 2025 recruits, the buzz on them, what we're hearing,

0:24.6

leaning this way or that way.

0:26.7

Also, yesterday, unfortunately for Notre Dame and its 2025 class, losing one of its

0:32.9

highest ranked commitments in Ivan Taylor.

0:35.9

You know, from the outset, I remember back when Chris O'Leary,

0:40.2

you know, was shipped off to the NFL or at least accepted that job in the news broke,

0:45.2

looking into Ivan Taylor and who his contacts were at Notre Dame. And it sounded like it was

0:50.7

not just primarily, but almost entirely Chris O'Leary. And so we wondered how

0:55.7

that may affect things. Mike Mickens taking over the entire defensive backfield. We know he's

1:00.8

a great recruiter. I mean, maybe great's an understatement. He's been a fantastic recruiter. He's got

1:05.9

the resume, Sauce Gardner and Ben Morrison and just lots of great players coby bryatt over there at

1:12.5

cincinnati a likable guy as well so you know i think it was fair for many to assume um that

1:19.3

mickins would be able to sort of shore that up keep them um comfortable in that commitment but

1:24.3

that's not the way it went we watched america as he, we were surprised to hear that he took an official visit to Alabama

1:30.4

before, I believe it was one week before he took his official visit to Notre Dame.

1:34.8

And that wasn't the only visit he was planning to take.

1:37.4

The next thing, you know, he is flipping to Michigan.

1:40.5

You know, Eric, when we first started to hear about, you know, rumblings of him potentially

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