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Notre Dame Suffers Rare Recruiting Loss to West Virginia

That streak ended Friday evening as West Virginia got a big win over Notre Dame. At least in terms of recruiting.

Perhaps the West Virginia Mountaineers football program was just due to get a victory over Notre Dame. Since the teams first met in the 1989 Fiesta Bowl, the Fighting Irish have won all four contests the teams have played on the field.

That streak ended Friday evening as West Virginia got a big win over Notre Dame. At least in terms of recruiting.

Wyatt Milum, an offensive tackle rated as a top 25 player in the entire 2021 recruiting class by 247Sports announced Friday that’d he be taking his talents to West Virginia next year.

Notre Dame has a strong start in recruiting for 2021 but this one no-doubt stings. It’s one thing to lose out on prospects to Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson or LSU. It’s another when West Virginia wins the services of players you so badly want.

It may seem odd but it’s hard to knock a young man for staying home. I can relate as I always thought I wanted to go a huge school far from home…and then I wound up at a tiny one an hour away.

Either way the push for a second offensive tackle in this class now becomes a bigger concern. Landon Tengwell of Maryland and Nolan Rucci of Pennsylvania are just two of several possibilities there.

If there is a silver lining in this it’s that at least it happened now and not down the road when Notre Dame’s staff was thinking a commitment was certainly coming and time was instead wasted.

Either way, Jeff Quinn (OL Coach) will need to do his best Mariano Rivera impression soon and close another one of these tackles commitments out to join Avon, Indiana’s four star Blake Fisher.

Wisconsin’s top five remaining targets in class of 2021

With Wisconsin’s 2020 recruiting class finished for the most part, here’s a look at its top remaining targets in the next class.

Wisconsin’s 2020 recruiting class is just about finished after it signed 19 players on the first day of the Early Signing Period on Wednesday, though the Badgers are still hoping to add a running back to the group before National Signing Day in February.

With the 2020 class locked up, Wisconsin can fully set its sights on a 2021 group that is already off to a phenomenal start with seven players committed: three-star inside linebacker Bryan Sanborn (Lake Zurich, Ill.), three-star defensive end/outside linebacker Ayo Adebogun (Thiensville, Wis.), four-star offensive tackles JP Benzschawel (Grafton, Wis.) and Riley Mahlman (Lakeville, Minn.), three-star running backs Jackson Acker (Verona, Wis.) and Loyal Crawford (Eau Claire, Wis.) and three-star quarterback Deacon Hill (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

While the Badgers have already landed some of their top targets in the class, there is obviously much work still to be done. Here are the top five players still left on their board.

Hunter Wohler – Safety

A four-star safety from Muskego, Wohler was the first in-state player the Badgers offered in this recruiting cycle.

Wisconsin was the first school to offer the 6-1, 180-pounder back in January, but he’s since become a hot commodity nationally: now considered the No. 241 overall player in the country per the 247Sports composite, Wohler holds other offers from Notre Dame, Ohio State, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Iowa State, Michigan, Michigan State and Minnesota.

At this point, the Badgers have to be considered the favorites here. Like many in-state kids Wisconsin targets, Wohler grew up a Badger fan, and the staff has made it clear he’s arguably their top priority in the entire class. However, the Buckeyes and Fighting Irish could make Bucky sweat a little.

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