Tracking the Trail: Signing Day Special with Guest Tom Lemming

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

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Recruiting reporting pioneer Tom Lemming joins Irish Illustrated for our annual Signing Day edition of our Tracking the Trail podcast. Deuce Knight is headed to Auburn. Derek Meadows is slated to play under Brian Kelly in Baton Rouge. Our sources strongly suggest that USC is on pace to cross the finish line in the Irish - Trojans race to win the Madden Faraimo sweepstakes. And after flirting with the idea of going to school in the Midwest, Jalen Wiggins will stick with his original Florida Gators pledge. On the other hand, although there lacks new news, Notre Dame earned important developments today. Perhaps the nation’s most promising left tackle headlines a trio of tackle signees standing no less than 6-foot-7. A former lesser-known three-star receiver commitment is now trending toward a shot at developing into one of the best pass-catchers signed with Freeman at the top of the program. And most notably, on paper and per the rankings, Notre Dame may have signed its best group of defensive backs of the modern recruiting era today, headlined by in-state phenom and two-sport superstar Mark Zackery. Discussing all of the above and more with Irish Illustrated today on Tracking the Trail is Tom Lemming. Be sure to tune in.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, as always, this podcast will be brought to you by Augie's locker room.
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0:36.6	Here for a signing day exclusive, I guess you could say, here with Eric Thomas.
0:41.6	As always, I'm Kevin Sinclair.
0:43.5	And joining us today is Tom Lemming.
0:45.8	We're recording this on Tuesday, the day before the early signing period kicking off.
0:52.0	We could see some surprises in the next 24 hours.
0:55.7	We won't be surprised, though, if we don't see any of the sort. You know, things are more unpredictable,
1:02.3	just as Eric and I were talking about just a few minutes ago, than ever. We should go ahead and
1:08.4	start with you, Mr. Leaming.
1:18.0	You've been covering this longer than all of us, you know, Eric and I combined and a few more that we could find, I'm sure.
1:33.0	The transfer portal, the increased movement there, the realignments of conferences, NIL. What are your thoughts on just how much things have changed sort of here in the last few years and the unpredictability of it all, I guess? Well, it's changed drastically.
1:39.8	So I was listening to Mack Brown, who at Mac actually came in my house to watch film as an assistant
1:44.8	coach at Iowa State back in 1979, so I've known Mac for a long time. And he said it's good
1:50.7	time to get out of it, just like Nick Saban said last year. Things are different now. Money
1:54.9	means everything. So it's professional football we're talking about, not college football as much.
2:00.4	The players want to get paid and now they've got
2:03.7	associates that are going out there and making, you know, deals with money and, and sometimes a ballplay will commit to one school just so that the other schools know what they've got to top money wise. So it's a different world now.
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