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Most of these Watch Lists won't come out until late July/early August.

Here's a rundown of the award from Fighting Irish Media:

Graduate student defensive lineman Howard Cross III and junior cornerback Benjamin Morrison were named candidates for the 2024 Lott IMPACT Trophy this week.

The Lott IMPACT Trophy annually goes to the Defensive IMPACT Player of the Year, a player who has had the biggest impact on his team both on and off the field. IMPACT stands for Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity. The award is named for NFL Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott during his illustrious playing career.

Morrison and Cross III join a watch list comprised of 42 candidates including 18 defensive backs, 13 defensive linemen and 11 linebackers.

Cross III was a quarterfinalist for the award in 2023, and earned Lott Trophy Player of the Week honors for his performance against Duke that season. In 2023, he earned Second Team All-America honors from FWAA, Walter Camp, the Associated Press and The Sporting News. He was a semifinalist for the Bednarik Award, starting all 13 games for Notre Dame. He piled up 66 stops in 2023, which ranked second among all Power 5 front-four defensive lineman.

In 2023, Morrison was a semifinalist for the Thorpe Award, and earned Freshman All-America honors in 2022. He led the Irish with 10 pass breakups in 2023, recording 31 tackles (25 solo). Morrison also intercepted three passes on the season, a mainstay on a defense that led all FBS teams in pass efficiency defense in 2023 (97.09).

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o won the Lott Trophy in 2012, and is the only Notre Dame player to have won the award.

The annual winner is selected by a national voter panel, consisting of former winners, members of the media, coaches, and members of the Board of Directors of The IMPACT Foundation.

The winner will be announced at a gala, black-tie event at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach, California on December 8.

We'll give this another refresh in a few days when we get updated heights and weights. Not a lot of movement since the last update in terms up ups and downs. I still expect Aamil Wagner to overtake Tosh Baker in August, for example, but am leaving Baker at the top for now. The Rocco Spindler/Pat Coogan battle will be interesting. I know the Irish are going to hive freshman Brauntae Johnson a look as a backup nickel, so that might be a move that sticks, and I included that for now. I'm also fairly confident we'll get announcements of some medical retirements very soon that will get ND down to 85 scholarships.

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JonAnthony Hall from Fishers High near Indy reports 17 offers, and has visited Northwestern officially. He has officials scheduled in June to Indiana, Purdue and Stanford.

Hall is set to compete in the Indiana state track and field meet Saturday in the long jump and 4x100 relay. He's the fourth seed int he long jump and finished fourth as a sophomore in last year's meet. Notre Dame incoming freshman safety Brauntae Johnson is competing in the same two events for Fort Wayne North High.

Lots of interesting stuff today from a small media gathering with head coach Marcus Freeman. I still have a notebook coming tonight ... will update the depth chart in the morning and get into some big picture stuff tomorrow afternoon. If I miss your questions today, I'll scoop them up tomorrow and answer them.

It's the Heisman Trophy for men's lacrosse. The award has been given annually since 2001 (sans 2000). Irish goalie Liam Entenmann was also one of the five finalists this year. I'll have a full story up later tonight.

Five 2025 Notre Dame commit highlight Sunday's Irish Invasion visitors/participants list. I'll have a full preview Thursday afternoon. These are the most notable players. The list is a lot longer and is subject to change. We'll be adding to it as the week goes on.

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Notre Dame Football’s matchup on October 26, 2024 at Metlife Stadium (East Rutherford, N.J.) will kick off at Noon ET. The game will be broadcast on either ABC or ESPN. Network designation will be made at a later date.

Hi, is there a podcast this week. If there is I missed the thread

New Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest movers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-24
Adam Gorney's position-by-position thoughts: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-breaking-down-the-new-rivals250-for-2025

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football, WBB, W soccer, M lacrosse, M fencing, W Fencing . co-ed fencing Are there any others?

There's been some news in the last couple of weeks on the Rivals national analyst front that I wanted to bring to your attention.

Sam Spiegelman has returned to Rivals after a stint with On3. He's our national recruiting analyst with a focus in the Southeast. His state responsibilities include Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina. That will allow fellow national recruiting analyst John Garcia Jr. to focus solely on Florida.

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Adam Friedman, who's been our national recruiting analyst focused on the East Coast, has now become a transfer portal analyst. He'll continue to our rankings director with a hand in both high school and transfer portal rankings. North Carolina was one of the states Friedman oversaw, so Spiegelman will have that covered.

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Rivals will announce in June an analyst who will be covering the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (basically everything north of North Carolina in the east).

If you haven't been keeping track, these are our other national recruiting analysts and their primary coverage areas ...

Greg Smith - Midwest
Marshall Levenson - Mid-South
Adam Gorney - West

ESPN lacrosse analyst Paul Carcaterra interviewed Kevin Corrigan & the Kavanagh brothers shortly after Notre Dame dominated Maryland 15-5 to win their 2nd consecutive NCAA National Championship in lacrosse. ☘️ 🥍🥍☘️

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We'll be continuing to update our expected visitors list for Sunday's Irish Invasion (which can always be found in the running visitors list thread) throughout the week.

@Eric Hansen will be doing much of the preview work as I'm taking a few days away later this week to start packing for a move later this month, but I'll be back to cover Sunday's camp.

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Make those chants of “S-E-C! S-E-C!” loud, and make them clear when Texas A&M plays Notre Dame. Your team's playoff spot might depend on the outcome.

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I've been working on nailing down the official visit dates for Notre Dame's 2025 commits. I expect them all to be on campus in June, but I haven't confirmed all their dates yet. Some didn't know for sure when I asked them either. Here's what I've learned so far.

June 7-9
RB Daniel Anderson
TE James Flanigan
CB Dallas Golden
VYP Dominik Hulak
LB Ko'o Kia
DE Joseph Reiff
LB Anthony Sacca
CB Cree Thomas
CB Mark Zackery

June 14-16
OL Matty Augustine
WR Jerome Bettis Jr.
OT Will Black
DE Christopher Burgess Jr.
DT Davion Dixon
QB Deuce Knight
S Ethan Long
OT Owen Strebig
S Ivan Taylor
RB Justin Thurman

I'll add the others when I get clarification.

Notre Dame DBs coach Mike Mickens and WRs coach Mike Brown were in Cincinnati today to watch the Bengals first OTA. Other than the obvious Al Golden connection to that coaching staff, former Notre Dame defensive analyst Ronnie Regula is now a defensive assistant for the Bengals.

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1 seed NOTRE DAME (15-1) vs. 7 seed MARYLAND (11-5)
Location: Philadelphia | Lincoln Financial Field
Schedule: May 27 — Noon ET
TV: ESPN
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