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

And another sort of special edition after having Notre Dame running back commit, Justin

Thurman, on our podcast recently.

We have another Notre Dame commit with us today. And Co-O-Kia linebacker out of Hawaii.

Mr. Kia, super happy to have you with us here today just before we got rolling.

We were talking a little bit about, you know, training and getting ready for your season.

Kind of looking forward to that.

We'll be, you know, tracking your senior year here.

Tell us, first off, just tell us a little bit more about, you know, this off season and sort of, you know, your season coming up in about a month and, you know, what you're thinking about that.

It's been a really good off season.

You know, first off season, really, where I haven't had to worry about all the recruiting stuff.

So the focus on just purely the season and getting better as a football player,

it's been a lot easier and cleaner to do that.

I can focus on my team a lot more.

And I'm really excited.

We have a young group, but I think we'll do really good this year.

Yeah, Eric, you go ahead.

Yeah, sort of working off of that, I know that Hawaii in general has a very proud

tradition of football.

It's maybe not as well known as on the mainland as like the traditions

in Texas or Georgia and everything, but there's a great pool talent and a really strong pull to play

football, you know, among sort of the Hawaiian community. Can you speak a little bit about, you know,

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