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Just go to indeed.com/bluewire right now and support our show by saying that you heard about Indeed on this podcast. That's indeed.com/bluewire, terms and conditions apply. And to hire, you need Indeed. Boom. So without further ado, let's break this thing down. Brian Brandon Logan, he is a technically a three star safety from Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne Snyder High School. So you know, kind of a local kid for the most for all for all intents and purposes. I mean, Fort Wayne has been good to Notre Dame in the past and it continues to be so and they went and won the state championship his senior year. He's a safety and, you know, was committed to Vanderbilt University to play baseball. And then he'd been committed for over two years really to play baseball Vanderbilt, yeah. Baseball is kind of crazy. You commit super early for baseball, it seems. And so he's been committed to Vanderbilt for a long time, decommitted last night in preparation basically to commit to Notre Dame for football today. And there's a lot to talk about here because as I mentioned, he's a three star safety. And you keep saying that he's three star public. I'm doing that on purpose publicly, but he's not a three star on the Irish breakdown. And that's that's the point that I'm trying to make. And so there's reasons for that and we'll get into that in his offer list obviously is not huge because he was a right because he was a baseball commit for the last two years. And so a lot of baseball football schools were just kind of like, well, he's obviously chosen baseball, so we're not really even going to go down that road. And so we'll we'll we'll break that down as well. But Brian, your initial thoughts on this commitment and kind of, and then we'll jump into the back story, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah. Well, just kind of big picture Vince, this is a good commitment for Notre Dame. It is. It's it's a it's a little bit of a lower floor than what they had before, right, with with Ivan Taylor. He's not Ivan Taylor right now. But you're talking about a kid that they're betting on the ceiling and they needed they wanted to get a third safety in this class. So it fits some numbers, right? Highly productive high school player at a very good program, as you mentioned, at one of the what are they, they five A or six A or I, well, they were five A and because they won the state championship, they are now six A this year. Okay. So they got bumped up because of the success factor, right? So, you know, comes from a very good program and a kid that's a two sport star and that's a big thing. He's he's an interesting player because as a sophomore, he's not a Notre Dame player at all. His junior film is good. And his junior film was like, I take a flyer on that guy. What really put it over the top for Brandon Logan was the job he did this summer at the Notre Dame's camp, which we'll get into here in a little bit. But basically, Vince, they they wanted to get a third safety. This is a kid that made a lot of sense. This is a kid that they've been on now for a couple months. That's why he was at Irish Invasion for the to begin with is because of, you know, some of the different things he did. But, you know, he was a kid that was, like you said, Vince just will kind of just slide into the back straight right away because those two things kind of go together. Fair enough. The backstory and kind of what this commitment means is this is a kid that just honestly wasn't a football recruit for a long time. I mean, he just he wasn't a guy. I mean, he's got Iowa and Indiana offers besides their name. That's it. Well, if Iowa and Notre Dame are offering a kid, you kind of think that some other schools would be in on them just because of those schools offering them because that lot of schools in the Midwest follow Phil Parker when it comes to offers of Midwestern kids. And so if anybody thought this kid was going to be a football recruit and it didn't really become a football recruit till Notre Dame got in the mix. If we're going to be honest about that, no, I don't think that he's flipping anywhere else to go play football. That's my understanding is that Notre Dame presented a unique opportunity for him to number one be part of a really good baseball program, you know, the college world series, what two seasons ago, right? And you know, and obviously it's a local program, high academics. It's also partly why he was a Vanderbilt because he's a very high academic kid and a guy that that, you know, now gets a chance to play both sports and and so had he decided to be a football commit recruit a year ago, he doesn't have Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama on his offer list, but it's a lot more impressive offer list than the one that he has now. But here's the thing I said to you today, Vince, if Phil Parker offers a Midwestern kid, I'm down. Yeah, right. You know what I mean? Like just just look at what what what's programs done a better job producing DB's up until the last year or two. The answer was Iowa, you know, when it started, and even this year their best corner went around to Notre Dame's best corner went around five and the only reason their best corner went around two is because he had a knee injury and couldn't, you know, and didn't get a chance plate combined. So, you know, this isn't a great opportunity and it's a huge win for Notre Dame in multiple fronts because for football, it's kind of like, okay, low floor, high ceiling kids, got some tools. I like them more than some some other people I know. I have a couple people that I that I whose football opinion I respect that I talked to. One guy talked to doesn't think very highly of Brandon Logan. The other loves Brandon Logan and started kind of talking to some, you know, I think this guy's better and I even tailor and I was okay, let's pump the brakes, you know, for now on that one, but there's a very wide varying opinion on him, but, you know, he's a kid that was a baseball commit, Notre Dame got on him. They liked this junior film. They were kind of talking to him about early on the initial conversation events was they were actually recruiting him to come and be a walk on on the football program. They had two safeties committed and they were trying to get Jane on Blair. So Notre Dame was actually trying to land Brandon Logan before they offered him a football scholarship. I don't know if that would have worked because the Vanderbilt baseball angle, especially it would have been even harder to get him to flip and be a walk on based on the new rules that are changing for scholarships because now baseball can give a lot more scholarships and more full scholarships, really, you know, at least, at least larger chunks of their scholarships at 30, they get 30 now and before they were well 11.7, yeah, about Vince, yeah. So it's making pretty much scholarship their whole team for the, for the most part, there's going to be a few more, but and I don't know if they have limits and I haven't looked into that, but lots more scholarships about to your point, right? Maybe they would have been able to get him to walk on for football and play baseball previously. Once Notre Dame stepped up with a football offer, it was kind of a matter of when not if, you know, Ryan did a story a couple of weeks ago with his dad and we had to chop out like half the comments that he gave to Ryan because they were just like, it's a done deal, you know, like, and we didn't want to take the kid's moment away, right? So Ryan and Ryan's like, I'm not sure how to write this because if I put all the dance quotes in there, people are just going to assume that he's going to commit the Notre Dame and we didn't want to take that moment from him. And so he actually had told Notre Dame that we, I'd have to ask Ryan when he wrote that article, I'm going to look that up because it was weeks ago that Ryan wrote that article and Brandon had already told Notre Dame, basically that he's going to come, but he kind of, there was some uncertainty about how to do it and because he had really built a great relationship with the Vanderbilt baseball staff and he had a very, to think about this, this kid's been committed to Vanderbilt for over two years. And he was going to tell that staff, sorry, and Brandon had a really tough time with that decision, but he's been committed to Notre Dame for at least, like, fully like it's done, no back and forth for two weeks, for over two weeks. It was just about the timing of when this all is done from what I'm told, from what I'm told. So, you know, that that was kind of the hang up was really just, I think him, he knew what he wanted to do, but it's telling the Vanderbilt baseball staff that as well. This is also a huge pickup for the baseball program because this is a top baseball player. I think, I think Ryan had in his stats events through three years of high school baseball. He's a 450 hitter for his career in baseball. And he's a very, I mean, you watch his, his clips in Europe, but your former high school baseball coach will go watch his clips of him at different showcases in him swinging. He's got a great swing, very fast swing, very powerful lower body. So this is a huge pickup for the baseball program at Notre Dame as well. This is actually a bigger pickup for the baseball team of what we know of Brandon Logan right now than it even is for the football program. But I do like Brandon's upside and I do, I like this pickup for the football program. I do, but it's an even bigger one for the baseball program for sure. It really is. And as we've seen Notre Dame has no problem with guys playing multiple sports, no problem, especially skilled players. Yeah, it's a little tougher for bigger guys, but, but for skilled players, it's just not something that they worry about, you know, they had guys on the baseball team. So I think that, you know, Drake Bowen, obviously on the baseball team this year, you had Jordan Faison, Tyler Buckner and Sam Asaf on the lacrosse team. So Notre Dame has been very supportive of that. And this, this goes back previous to Marcus Freeman, Brian Kelly, also was great about that as well. I mean, you had Cole come in on the baseball team. You had Tori Hunter Jr. played on baseball team. Tori Pride was on the Notre Dame track team. So Pat Conanten was a baseball and a basketball player. So this is something that Notre Dame has always been supportive of and Brandon Logan is simply just the latest example of that. So a huge pickup for the baseball team really like the football team too. So let's talk about how the offer came about Vince. Okay. As I mentioned, he was a kid that Notre Dame had their eye on for a few, for a little bit now as a guy that they were like, hey, you know, trying to find because they, you know, how it is like with Jordan Faison and Luke Talbot's like, look, we got our scholarship guys, but we're not going to stop recruiting good football players. And if this is a baseball guy, you know, we get the baseball team to give him some baseball money and then we can get him to walk on and be a part of what we're doing here because they really liked him as a football player. That started to change this summer, Vince. He camped at Notre Dame's Irish invasion this summer and he was one of their most impressive players. I didn't see him going through the testing period, but I saw him go through the, like the position drills and he was very impressive player. I mean, I liked how he moved around. He moves even better on there than he did on film. In my opinion, as far as like change of direction and things like that, because on film, we'll see when he get into film, he's just pretty much a downhill player on film. And you know, but when you saw him at the drills, you saw him, you know, he can, he can turn and run a little bit better than I thought he was going to based on film and he was an impressive player, but what really caught Notre Dame's attention, Vince, on top of being a very good player because I'll, I'll give you a little, a little story, right? So when we get the roster from Notre Dame, they have prospects broken into groups. Certain colors are, you know, hey, these guys are, are top players and, and all those type of things. So, you know, they had him in a group where it was like, it was clearly, he wasn't a top target at the camp. But the way he performed, he became one because of how he, how he performed Vince. And he went, came at the, at the event I'm trying to find his name in this sheet. Now he, he tested, he checked in at five, 11 and a half, 186 pounds, had 32 and a corner inch arms, which was pretty good arm length for a five, 11 guy. He had, he ran a four, he did two forties. He ran a four, four, four, four, and a four, four, seven for context Ivan Taylor the year before. He was, you know, year younger, but Ivan Taylor ran a four, five, nine and a four, seven flat at Notre Dame's Irish invasion the previous year. He had a 124 inch broad jump, which is over 10 feet and he had a 416 in the pro shuttle. So his testing numbers were excellent. He tied for the third highest, you know, 40 yard dash at the event. So athletically he checked all the boxes, right? And, and the thing that, that, that's what kind of, yeah, the drills are great, but when he went out there and ran that, that's something that really impressed the staff for, for context, there's a 20, 26 safety that Notre Dame is in on big time. Let me find them here, uh, Braylon Womack, who's considered a top 30 player nationally and he's a dude, right? He's a dude, uh, Braylon Womack would be a huge pickup for Notre Dame next year, but Braylon checked in at six foot 200 and 200 pounds, he had 31 and a quarter inch arms. So Brandon Logan's a full inch longer from an arm length standpoint. He ran a four, five flat and a four, five, nine. He had a 117 inch best broad jump in his pro shuttles for three. And that's a guy that we're all talking about being like a dude. There was a player who's a two years younger than Brandon Logan. So, so keep that in mind. That's Larry Moon, Larry Moon checked in at six foot 177 29 and three quarters inch arms, ran a four, six flat and a four, two, seven and a three cone shuttle. So like athletically his numbers were significantly better than those guys. And that's what really popped for the staff was, okay, this guy athletically checks all the boxes. Then he went out and drills and looked great. Then he immediately became a, okay, if we like the talk was walk on, because they still had Ivan Taylor, they were fighting to keep Ivan Taylor in the class and they knew they were going to get Jade on Blair. Once Ivan Taylor left, it was a no brainer. This is, this is, this is where they were going and actually offered him before Ivan Taylor left the class, but they knew they felt that they didn't know they're so battling, but they had a feeling that Ivan Taylor was going to leave the class when they officially offered him a football scholarship. So as soon as Ivan Taylor left the class, there was a, there was, there was no conversation about, well, what do we do now? It was, okay, let's offer Brandon and when, and, and get him, try to convince him to complete football and turn down baseball. The other wrinkle to this too, in this is a conversation that his, his dad was having with Ryan was the Major League Baseball draft came up and there was some talk that Brandon might get drafted and how high he got drafted might impact his decision. And I don't, I don't know that he got drafted. I don't think he got drafted because the draft is way fewer rounds now than it used to be. Remember it used to be, it's like a quarter of a 20 now, right? I think it might even be less than that, to be honest with you. So, but it, it was, it was, you know, that was kind of part of it too. So once the draft got through and he didn't go, you know, high, it was like, okay, now it's time to, to really ramp things up with him for football. So that's kind of how this whole thing came to be events. And there's a very interesting, very interesting recruitment, just because you're talking about trying to convince a kid who wasn't a football recruit to play football, who was committed to a program. I mean, we've talked about this, Vince, you and I, a Vanderbilt baseball, I think they, their most recent national title was what, like 2019, 2021, was that they were runners up in 2021. They won the World Series in 14 and 19. They were runners up in 2015 and 21. And they've made college World Series appearances in 11, 14, 15, 19 and 21. And you know, so it's like, it's one of those things we're looking at and you're like, this is kind of like Clemson, going to Clemson for football, but pretend that Clemson has like a good academic program. You know what I mean? Like, that's kind of what this, what this one, you know, what this one, you know, it was, is that that's kind of how this commitment was. So now, now that they've got him in the class, what kind of impact he's the third safety. He's got a lot of tools, right? And you know, I'm guessing that he is a bit of a, a bit of a project from a football standpoint from a getting on the field playing safety standpoint. So what is his impact to the class? Well, I mean, right there, you said it, right? Like that's the big thing right there is, is he is a, he's that third safety in the class. They've got two different types of safeties right now in the class, eat the longest sort of that rangey play over the top cover guy that can come down and tackle. But he's a cover to tackle guy covered, cover to run support guy, Jay Don Blair's we broke him down six, four, 200 pounds, he'll be over 200 by the time he's in the name downhill dynamic playmaker can play over the top can just do everything. He was a top 50 recruit for us. Right now Brandon Logan is sort of that a Don Schuller type of guy. He's right now on film bench. You watch him. He'll keep everything in front of you and explode to the football, you know, pick things off, jump in front of throws, come downhill, stick people and play with a lot of great range downhill. Compare him last year's class. He's a lot like Kennedy or lacquer in that regard, although he shows a lot more playmaking ability in the past game than Kennedy showed. They just, we didn't see a whole lot of Kennedy in coverage. We see a lot more of Brandon in coverage or at least playing zone stuff. So he's sort of that downhill, you know, do a lot of what DJ Brown did last year, you know, play that, you know, that, that, that middle robber come downhill, sometimes line up in the box, be a good run tackler, be a guy that jumps tight ends, be a guy that jumps overs, you know, play sort of that intermediate zone. That's what he shows on film right now. That's what he adds to the class. So you get that third safety in the class, you got three last year, you completely restocked your safety depth chart. And he's not a guy that's going to scare off the studs in next year's class. He's not going to scare off Blaine Bradford. He's not going to scare off Braylon, Wal-Mac. He's not going to scare off the top safeties, the sec forts and the other guys that, you know, the long list of safeties they're on. He's not a guy that's going to scare them off where, where maybe Ivan Taylor and Jaydon Blair might have been like, yeah, you got three guys, guys that are top 250 recruits, like I'm going to go over here and be that number one dude. That's not going to be the case now with him. So he adds value, but he doesn't, he doesn't have that same potential negative impact on next year's safety class either. And then he adds speed. And that's something Notre Dame needs more of a safety bench. You and I see it, right? Like there's, there's good football players there, but there's not a lot of guys running 444 outside of maybe Bronte, but Bronte didn't run that a 444 at Notre Dame's camp either. He was more high for four fours low four fives at Notre Dame's camp. So this is a kid that gives you an infusion of speed and power at a position where you need an infusion of speed and power. That's, that's kind of what his game is about. And that's what he brings at a table. So impact the class numbers wise, but also impacts the class from a skill set that they're looking to have more of. And you know, one of the great things about having Ivan Taylor, Jay Don Blair and Ethan Long was that they could play together. And this group can do that as well. Like I could even see Brandon Logan even being a bit of a, when you want to go three safety looks, he can be down in the box as well and like playing that nickel spot, you know, when you're trying to get more of a tackler zone guy down there. So I certainly could see something because he's five, he's already 511 and a half, 186 is a rising senior in high school. He's got a very impressive frame and he's going to be 195 to 200 pounds. Pretty quickly, I would imagine, he'll never get super big because of baseball. Like he'll, he'll never get like, Oh, he's going to be a rover something. I don't think that'll ever happen because of baseball. Baseball is always going to keep them, you know, on the 200 to 205 at the most range at the most, if even if he gets to that, but he's a good sized kid with, with power that can do a lot of things. So you can line, but you can also line him up as the, the field safety and Jaydon is the sort of the nickel safety and then Ethan can be the boundary over top safety. You can put Jaydon, you can flip those two guys in the back, you can put, you know, Brandon down and down on level two and put Jaydon and Ethan on level three. So you can still, you still have a comp, a complimentary group. I don't think he compliments the other two quite as well as Ivan Taylor did based on what we see on film. Ivan was more of a cover guy that could, could do some things against the run. Brandon's more of a run guy that's going to have to learn to pass. So it's a little bit different, but there's still that, that aspect where these three guys can play together. And that's a very important piece of this puzzle. So yeah, that's how it impacts the class. This episode is brought to you by our good friends at NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. I'm sure by now you've all got back into your Sunday routines, but they could be even better. With NFL Sunday ticket and YouTube TV, you get the most live NFL games all in one place every game every Sunday. And you can even watch up to four different games at once with multi view, one of my favorite inventions of this decade. It's exactly what you need to catch all the action, make your Sundays more magical. And also, YouTube TV is great. I got it this year. It's awesome. Sign up now at youtube.com/bsdevice and content restrictions apply local and national games on YouTube TV and a false Sunday ticket for out of market games excludes digital only games. Well, it's that time where we dive into the film. We can kind of show what we're talking about when it comes to his tools and what he's able to do and, and all of those fun things. One of my favorite parts of the show where we get to dive into the film together. And you know, his film is good. There's no doubt about it. And you'll see some clips of him playing in the state championship game at Luke soil stadium and, you know, all those different things. And so again, he comes from Fort Wayne, so you're going to see some Fort Wayne schools on there and a lot of things jumped out of me when I watched his film, Brian, and we'll kind of get to those as we watch it. But there's a lot of things to like here that that's for sure. There, there's some things he's got to learn, right? Some areas he's going to have to prove. He's basically just getting by on God given ability. But again, this is a guy that's never focused on football the way that he will be moving forward. Right. And I'm really curious to see how his senior film looks because I see a good athlete on his junior film. I don't see four four four on his junior film. So I'm curious, like, was there a jump there or is it just because he's still not as comfortable playing football yet that he didn't play that way? But the numbers were phenomenal, Vince. I think it was 94 tackles and six interceptions last year. Wow. And a pretty good level of Indiana football. Yeah. You know what I mean? Fort Wayne's got some athletes. And that's- It goes Indy and then Fort Wayne. I mean, as far as the best football in the state, I mean, there's no, there's no doubt about that. And they'll be, you know, they won the five A state championship last year. Now they're getting bumped up to six A and they're going to be just as competitive in six A as they were in five A. I mean, it's just a perennial program at Snyder and, you know, they're going to be good. They're going to be really good. Yeah. So I mean, you look at their, you look at their schedule last year, Vince in 2023. They beat Warren central 42 to 20. You know, they beat Carroll 2724. They did lose to Homestead and overtime 2320. They beat Bishop Dwayneger 3313. They beat Wayne 37 nothing. They beat Northside 4214 in the, I think that was a postseason game. Beat Mission walk in 1918 beat Merrillville 28 nothing and then beat Decatur central in the state title game 33 to six. So it's a good football team. It's a good football team. And, and he was obviously their most productive defensive player. So let's pop on the film, Vince and take a peek at what Brandon has to offer. And you guys will get a chance to kind of see what we're talking about from, from Brandon Snyder. And the very first play is going to be exactly what we're talking about. I do love that fact. I can't dismiss that 46 interceptions four of them. He returns for touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. But you're going to see that kind of get started right away on the film. So very, very talented football player. But you're going to see again, he's, he's a, he's number four on the film. He's all his plays that we see. I don't remember if we see any really a lot of clips of him kind of flipping his hips, but I love that right there. Good collision. He keeps his eyes downhill, light on his feet, doesn't get flat footed, doesn't get kind of rerouted. Keeps that guy in front of him. He never gets threatened vertically. He reads the receiver very well. The receiver never says, Hey, I'm running by ya, right? Everything about the receiver is like, I'm, I'm, I'm trying to make a move. He's patient with it. And then plays with a good inside out angle, steps in front of the ball and picks it off and touchdown numero Uno or Mr. Logan. Yeah, I like, I like his nose for the football. He, he did a good job of staying in the hip pocket of the receiver there until it was time to break on the football and then just stepped in front of it. He kind of baited the quarterback a little bit and did a good job getting that interception. Yeah. That's just a bad throw. Yeah. I mean, that's just, that's just a bad ball, but he'll see good athleticism there, right? I mean, this is one of the few times we really kind of see him open up a little bit to that nice little back pedal there. I mean, he's basically down at line back or depth or almost D line depth right there, but, you know, but then you see him get the ball and you see him show some so soft, so off some athleticism out runs the offense to the, to the end zone. That's one of the few plays where you start to see the speed kind of like, Oh, okay. That pops a little bit. This is more impressive part about this play is what he did after he caught it. It was actually some defensive confusion. You had two guys in the same zone. I mean, that's not how they draw it up. Right. This is another one. Again, you see a lot of this, you know, light on his feet understands where he has help. So he doesn't overreact to the play, keeps his eyes on the quarterback and then, you know, finds the football. So we're going to get to some stuff here in a second where it's like, Oh, he didn't return for a touchdown. That doesn't happen very often. Is this, is this Lawrence? No, that's not who this is. That's a nice play right here. This is playing center field and you see him jump that ball. This is one of the few times we see this fence. This little pedal technique is not good here. Right. Then some, he's kind of staying tall, but you see good foot quickness and then he reads it. I mean, he doesn't play a lot of center field in a lot of these clips. He's usually more of the strong safety down in the box kind of a guy. This is more of him playing center field and rolling over, but I mean, he reads the ball perfectly. I points it, but you're right, his technique is not good. And that's one of the things he's a, that's why I said earlier, he's a project. I love the read. Watch how quickly as soon as the, I mean, he, he's read. That quarterback wells that quarterback turns and throws and he breaks on that ball in a hurry. Right. Because initially the quarterback sees him beating the linebacker. He's like, Oh, this is going to be a touchdown. And then all of a sudden safety comes over and robs it. Yep. Absolutely. Is it, is that the drone? Yes. Okay. You know, I was wondering, I was like, what the heck is, yeah, they're unique, very unique angle for sure. Yes. Very unique. You, you, and this is a really smooth planting, planting drive right here. Fence. Right. Again, technique is not great, but boom, plants gets downhill, nice, easy movements. And then you see him stick that's, this is where the highlight tape did not show as much of this as I would want to see this play right here is one of them. I want to see more of this on his highlight tape, because when he comes up, he can stick my skides, like to jump into a defensive player, that's just nice, right? Just not smart. But look, he comes to balance, right? He's not out of control. Comes to balance. Nice shifty feet. Look how long his arms though, this is an example where you can see how long he is because of his gloves. Yes. Exactly. Exactly. He's a very long athlete, which is going to help him be a very good tackler. So I, and there's, there's plenty of clips in here where the tackles aren't great, but he puts himself in position to make the play. You know what I mean? His feet and feel are really good, right? As he learns the technical part of things, he's going to be a lot better, but this is a nice read here. Who, is this a homestead, right, Vince? Yes. Okay. So I thought that field looked familiar. The problem is Snyder doesn't have a home field, so some of their home fields, they're kind of all over the place. Gotcha. But they're their true routine here. Gotcha. I didn't know that they didn't have a home field. Yeah. Makes sense. They're going anyway. So they try to. I get that. Go elsewhere. Here we go. Like look, Vince comes to balance. Nice, good base. Doesn't come out of control, not looking to knock people out. Like he's physical, but not like an out of control. Oh, I want to take everybody's head off kind of guy. And that's something that I like for safety. Yeah. If you get a chance to light somebody up, light somebody up, but he's got good power. This is another one. Look like patience. He's got outside help. He understands like this one says his field, he doesn't have to over pursue because he's got a corner outside as the or actually that would be another safety as the support player outside or he can he can play inside out good patience. And then once he realizes that guy's got nowhere to go, you see him turn on the speed and he chases him to the sideline. So the athletic skills I like, he's just got a lot to learn technically. He's long though. He's a long football player. That's nice pursuit right there, that's like, that's real nice speed right there. That's against Dwinger, right? Yep. Sure is. You'll see another one where you can see the the midfield. Okay. Yeah, there we go. Bishop Dwinger. I'm assuming the BD in the cross is would have made that a give away. Yeah, a little bit. That's not a shout out to me. That sucks. This pointed in a little Dwingers could be again, patience fence, right? Like not out of control. He's not he's not the he's not the perimeter support player. So he doesn't have to fly out of there out of control. He's got a nice inside out angle and actually kind of still goes a little far, but he kind of has to because of the wash. This is a good. It's a good play. This kid's got nice nimble feet. You see also see there there's a little hip tightness there, right? He's got a little bit of that. He's not a he's not a super clean flip and run guy, but it's not bad, but you can see a little bit of tightness there. He stays patient on this very patient play, which I like. He's got good instincts, Vince, absolutely, he's not just some athlete out there playing football. He is technically, but when it comes to his his feel for the game, he's a he's a pretty instinctive kid. He really is and he's not he's not a he's a willing tackler. He's not afraid to stick his nose in. There's no doubt about that. The only thing that he just needs to clean up some of his technique and stuff like that. That's the biggest thing. He's in the right place a lot and he likes to thump like that last one that he caused a fumble, you know, but he also didn't wrap up either. He just kind of dropped his shoulder. So like there there's some technique stuff that needs to be cleaned up and he needs to get some a little bit more of that armor on him, right? I mean, but he didn't do that because of baseball, which I get, right? But now that he's focused on football, here we go hit that weight room a little harder. Real quick question, Vince, it's only state title games that are played at Lucas Oil, right? Correct. Well, they do some indie teams play there during the regular season. No, I mean in the play like this would only be a post season game. Yes, 100% championship game. That's good stuff right there. That's a good size running back and he stands them up and gets under like this. He gets low, right? Nice base gets low and then he hits that guy and I'm stronger than you. That's what it comes down to. This is a state title game. So you're playing against a good football team. I'd be very curious who that running back is. He looks like it's really good size or was that the quarterback? The quarterback's big guy, a little scrape over top. There's a little pedal getting over. He's got, man, his length is really impressive. He's a really long athlete. He really is. There's a lot of tackles on there that aren't on his highlight tape, Vince, and I would have liked to have seen. I know, right? Because that kid made 94 tackles last year. So he's going to get after, but you guys see the skill, right? You guys see the length. You guys see the feel for the game, right? He's not just some athlete that they're going to have to teach how to play defense. You know what I mean? There's a lot of technical work that's needed. To your point, the strength is going to need to come. The good news is, is the strength program in college baseball is a little different than the high school baseball. Right. So, you know, he'll be good there, but I don't know what kind of baseball program Snyder has, Vince. I don't, you know, I honestly don't know either because we never, it never came up when I was coaching. I only had to go into Fort Wayne or anything like that. Okay. So I was curious about that, but you know, again, this is a, this is a football player, man. This is a kid that's, that's going to need some time. He's, he's not. He's got good. You see this. You see good speed on film. I don't see four, four, four. That's something I'm very much looking forward to seeing this season is, is what is his, his, this is speed pop a little bit more this season. Right. That's something I'm very, very much looking forward to, you know, kind of seeing this year. It looks like their baseball team's not great. I kind of figured, but I didn't want to throw any shade, but he's very good. Yeah. He's very good. They, they got knocked. They had a losing record got me by Carol and the playoffs 14 to one. So Carol's a good. Yes. Yeah. But according to, to Max Preps, and I don't, you know, I don't know how many games they have him having played last year, but according to Max Preps, he hit 441 last year. Actually, I'm going to see if I can, no, that's basketball. Come on. Give me his football stats. I don't care. Or baseball stats. I don't care about basketball. It is interesting. He's a three sport player though. Yeah. 441 last year hit 473 as a sophomore and hit 436 as a freshman and they have down is playing seven, 77 career games, Vince. So it looks like, you know, it looks like, so it looks like they got a lot of his, a lot of his games on here. So it sounds like he was a full time guy on varsity as a freshman because yeah, because he played 25 games about 25 games of year, 28 depending on he had a hundred bats. Okay. So he's a freshman. Yeah. He, uh, he's struck out in three years, 26 times 10 of those were his freshman year. And he's walked 64 times, according to these statistics. He's been hit by pitches 13 times. So that's a kid that is not afraid to, to lean into one. So there's no doubt about that. I'm curious about this. And he stole 26 bases last year and 77 games. He stole 54 bases. So that's, I like that. Yeah, it's not bad at all. Not bad at all. 26 steals in, in a season. I mean, that's, that's about one of game, I mean, more or less. So that means he's getting on base and he's getting around the basis. So he's pitched nine and two thirds innings in his career has seven walks and 12 strikeouts. So not a lot of control, but he must throw hard because he's a, I believe he's a corner out fielder. And so he probably has an arm. Yeah. He's done. Yeah. So well, so coach Stiffler is going to do what, what, you know, what some other sports have done for, to coach Freeman. He's going to owe Marcus Freeman a fruit basket here here when we get closer to football season. He just sat back and just got one of the better recruits in the country. Like, I mean, I'm sure he did something, but this was obviously driven by football and he was the nice recipient of a heck of a recruit for the baseball team. So, you know, congratulations to the baseball program. I'm getting a heck of a recruit and, you know, and obviously congratulations to the young man on committing the Notre Dame. That's awesome. Yeah. So absolutely. It's a good pickup for Notre Dame. That's for sure. Absolutely. A nice solid pickup for Notre Dame. So that's going to do it for our breakdown of the Brandon Logan commitment, the safety out of Fort Wayne Snyder. And so he is in the class of 2025 and becomes the third safety commit to this class. And I would imagine that they are done with safety in this class, Brian, at this point. I don't want to go out on a limb, but I assume three is what they were aiming for in this class. And so that is that for safety. 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