Kevin Sinclair here with Irish Illustrated on our tracking

McSrail recruiting podcast.

I'm joined, as always, by Eric Thomas at Irish Illustrate.

And we have a special guest today, Mr. Tom Lemming, joining us to talk some recruiting,

some Notre Dame specific things.

Tom, thanks so much for joining us. We were just

talking about it just before we came on the podcast. But yeah, you're heading down to the

south and can have kind of a weekend of football. Is that right? Yeah, heading to Gainesville,

I've got 40 to 50 players meeting. These are the top players, 2026 and 27 in the area.

I try to get them all on one spot because I'll be back in Florida in January

and I hit all the players that I'll miss on this one, especially in South Florida.

But there's a good number of the big stars are going to meet me at Buckhol's high school tomorrow morning

about five hours before the Florida game and then I'll just head up and hit some guys in small

towns in Georgia before I go to Asheville, North Carolina, and then Anderson High School in Cincinnati

and then home.

Wow, man, I don't think I'll ever meet anyone who travels as much as you do

and logs as many miles as you do. So, you know, you were talking about North Carolina there just a

minute ago. Notre Dame hadn't, you know, didn't land recruits from there very often at all. I think

there was Matthias Farley. There was the Aquara brothers.

But if you look at the, you know, the dozen or so classes under Brian Kelly, really not a

whole lot there. And then all of a sudden now, you know, Sullivan Absher and Sam Pendleton's are

starting left guard now. Bryce Young and Micah Gilbert and Jack Larson and, you know,

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