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Watch: Highlights of newest Notre Dame commit Rocco Spindler

Notre Dame just beefed up their offensive line in the years to come as Rocco Spindler, a prized guard in the ’21 class announed.

Notre Dame landed one of the biggest fish in the 2021 recruiting class on Saturday when offensive guard Rocco Spindler announced his decision to join the Fighting Irish ahead of other finalists Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State and LSU.

Spindler is regarded as one of the best offensive guards in this entire class and is in the second highest rated offensive line recruit Brian Kelly has ever brought to Notre Dame.  The surprising part of that is that no, it’s not Quenton Nelson that the honor goes to but instead still current Fighting Irish tackle, Tommy Kraemer.

We could write about the excitement the commitment from Spindler brings, especially on a day that it felt like we were headed towards a doomsday for college football in 2020.

However, instead of reading all about it, let’s watch the player Notre Dame just picked up a commitment from and who will help continue to build upon the legacy of O-Line U.

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Top Notre Dame target in no hurry to make commitment

Rocco Spindler is one of Notre Dames biggest remaining targets in the 21 recruiting class. He said Thursday a commitment wont happen soon.

If you follow the college football recruiting world at all, specifically Notre Dame’s recruiting efforts, you’re aware of the name Rocco Spindler.

Spindler is the son of former Detroit Lion and Pitt Panther, Marc Spindler who spent nine seasons in the NFL.  Spinder is also about as big of remaining target as Notre Dame has in it’s 2021 recruiting class.

The four-star offensive guard has Notre Dame listed as one of his finalists along with Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and LSU.  Spinder announced on Twitter on the morning of June 11 that he won’t be making a commitment anytime soon.

With the state of things we have no idea when visits will again be allowed to be made so it’s going to be a while before anyone gets an answer on Spindler’s ultimate destination.

For what it’s worth, the recruiting experts at 247Sports have it as a two horse race between Notre Dame and Michigan for the Clarkston, Michigan star guard.

Notre Dame Football: Top Offensive Line Target to Cut List to Five

Rocco Spindler is a coveted offensive guard. Notre Dame will see how well they stand with Spindler when he cuts his schools to five May 22.

Notre Dame has been in hot-pursuit of offensive guard Rocco Spindler of the 2021 recruiting class.  The Irish sit with 10 current commitments in the 2021 class, two of which make their homes on the offensive line in tackle Blake Fisher and guard Pat Coogan.

Notre Dame will find out if they’re in the running to add a third lineman to that list as big-time target Rocco Spindler has announced he’ll be cutting his list of potential schools from 10 to five on May 22.

Spinder, a 6-4.5, 295 pound offensive guard from Clarkston, Michigan comes with a four-star grade.  He’s received offers from plenty of the big players including Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma and plenty more.

Spindler is the son of Marc, who played defensive tackle at Pitt before spending his nine year NFL career with the Detroit Lions and New York Jets.

You may recall Spindler was the Notre Dame target that had a chance encounter with Lou Holtz while vacationing in Mexico.

Keep it locked to Fighting Irish Wire as we’ll have all the details on Spindler and anything else regarding Notre Dame recruiting.

Big Time Notre Dame Target’s Mexican Encounter with Big Time Former Irish Coach

Here’s to hoping Brian Kelly doesn’t suffer the same fate with a Spindler over two decades later.

You ever find yourself walking and you stumble into something that means an incredible amount to you and you alone but probably means nothing to anyone else?

If so you may have wondered what it meant and if it was some kind of sign.

One of the nations most desired players in the 2021 recruiting class recently found himself wondering exactly that after a random Mexican run-in with former Notre Dame head coach Lou Holtz.

Rocco Spindler is one of the most coveted players in the 2021 class as 247Sports ranks him the second best guard in the country and a top 50 player overall.

If the Spindler name sounds familiar it’s because Rocco’s father (Marc) is a former All-American defensive lineman for Pitt who played nine seasons in the NFL for the Lions and eventually the Jets.

Spindler mentions it possibly being a sign that he ran into Lou but also asks in the same tweet if it’d be a “like father, like son” situation. In that case then he wouldn’t end up at Notre Dame, correct?

OK, that’s reading far too into the tweet of a youngster who had a cool run-in with an all-time college football coach. Whether he ends up at Notre Dame or if he ends up at one of their biggest rivals it’s still a cool story to come across.

I’d love to hear Lou share stories on recruiting Spindler’s father though as he was the USA TODAY’s high school football defensive player of the year in 1986.

I’m guessing that miss didn’t sit well with Holtz.

Here’s to hoping Brian Kelly doesn’t suffer the same fate with a Spindler over two decades later.