Notre Dame Loves The Potential of James Flanigan

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00:03 So if you're looking at, why did Notre Dame go after James Flanagan?

00:07 It had everything to do with the fact that of his fit in the class,

00:10 which I'll get into, and his talent, which I'll get into.

00:12 But they had to convince him of that and make sure that he understood that,

00:16 that hey, we're not recruiting you because who your dad was.

00:18 Yes, that's cool, that's a great story, but

00:20 we're recruiting you because you're really talented.

00:23 Notre Dame's staff made it very clear to him, look,

00:25 we're trying to win championships here and we're not gonna do that.

00:28 By just recruiting a bunch of legacy players, players of legacies and

00:32 hoping that their kids will be as good as they were.

00:36 No, they're recruiting those kids cuz they think those players are very talented.

00:40 That's why they recruited Bryce Young, it's why they're recruiting James Flanagan.

00:44 And so obviously, this is a guy that they had to convince of that, and

00:46 Jared Parker did a great job of this.

00:48 I mean, you talk to James and those around him, and they'll tell you Jared Parker was

00:53 very influential and instrumental in making this happen.

00:57 And like we said, he took a lot of visits.

01:00 He had been close to maybe committing to Notre Dame a couple times, but

01:03 he really wanted to take his time.

01:04 He really wanted to be sure, almost committed in the spring.

01:08 I believe it was during the Blue Gold game, but wanted to hold off cuz he really

01:12 wanted to make sure that he was making the decision for the right reasons.

01:16 And of course, Notre Dame was able to really close the deal on him

01:20 during his last most recent visit, which came during the USC game.

01:23 So it was shortly after the USC game that James gave Coach Freeman a call and

01:28 let him know that Notre Dame is where he wants to be.

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