Kevin Sinclair here with Irish Illustrated on our Tracking the Trail podcast, joined by Eric Thomas.

And it's a special edition today, joined by Notre Dame commit, Justin Thurman running back out of Florida.

So happy to have Justin here with us today.

Justin's been a long time Notre Dame commit,

has visited Notre Dame many times, been to games on campus,

good representative of the class.

Justin, I remember first speaking with you,

I believe it was over a year ago.

You have an interesting background in that you've kind of lived in two areas that are fairly football rich, I guess I would say.

I grew up in St. Louis. A few years ago, you moved to Tampa. Can you tell me a little bit more about sort of, you know, your life kind of growing up in St. Louis,

football in your life and then moving to Tampa where there's, you know, a pretty serious wealth of talent and kind of what that was like? So, I mean, definitely living in the state

of Missouri, football was a major sport. I mean, probably the biggest sport. And I mean, it was,

I mean, it was great going through elementary school playing flag football and eventually

ramping up at the end of elementary in middle school transitioning to tackle football.

That was really great. Then my freshman year at high school, I mean, that was definitely just a,

I mean, it was a great experience.

Just being also too in the Jesuit school system there in St. Louis, got to experience high school,

JV, and varsity level. And, I mean, it was a great time. And then when my dad's job moved down

to the Clearwater area, and obviously we made the move to Tampa. And honestly, I feel like

the competition down here and just the overall just type of play down here is, I mean, it's really good.

I feel like it really, it's like iron sharp, it's iron.

I really feel like playing good competition.

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