Kevin Sinclair here with Irish Illustrated back for tracking the trail, our new recruiting podcast.

Here with Eric Thomas, we're going to get right into it.

Eric, Mark Zachary, his commitment decisions coming.

What do you think?

Yeah, obviously announced for the 25th of this month, so we're rounding

into the 10-day mark here. Really, really, you know, confident that this is going to be a good

news for the Irish. Obviously, everything is still up in the air when it hasn't been announced yet,

but all indications at this point seem to be positive

news for Notre Dame and Mike Mickens. It's just another sort of testament to the job that Mike

Mickens has done with this room. Obviously, the article that I wrote, I guess it was last week now,

that kind of went into and just detailed how he has increased the average ranking of

the recruits coming into a four-star level from like a low or a high three-star, excuse me,

low four-star range-ish kind of level. That's a massive improvement for the overall quality

of material to bring it into this room. And Zachary fits right into that trend.

As we've talked about extensively, he's a great athlete, really unique sort of player in terms of

his length, his ability to elevate and his ability to switch direction, especially turning

around. So he's a really excellent grab for Notre Dame if they can go ahead and secure that on

the 25th. Yeah, I agree. I mean,

I believe that's going to happen. I think he's been training that way for quite a while.

I just, you know, initially way back months, months ago, and I started doing more homework on him.

I realized his dad was on the Ben Davis coaching staff over there in Indianapolis and spoke with

him. And one thing that stood out to me about a conversation was that it was really clear as

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