Tag: Tony Phillips Jr.

Illinois speedster will visit Notre Dame this weekend

The fast back will be in South Bend soon

The Irish are scouring all across the country for the best talent and just one state to the west they’ve found yet another. Running back Tony Phillips Jr. has announced via Twitter that he will be visiting South Bend this coming Saturday.

The extremely fast back has been a varsity starter since his freshman year at powerhouse Bishop McNamara and has already amassed a very solid offer list which includes Syracuse and Tennessee. Although Phillips Jr. is a bit on the smaller side, at five-foot-six-inches and 170-pounds, his speed plays all over the field. If he stays this size most likely Phillips Jr. won’t be an every down back, but can still very well have a very positive impact for an offense.

Phillips Jr. does not have an Irish offer but this visit could go a very long way for that to come to fruition. We will keep an eye on the visit as he will visit South Bend for the first time.

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Running back recruit will visit Notre Dame

Hope the Irish can land him.

Notre Dame never can have enough players at skill positions. That’s because you never know when you might find the next player to electrify crowds at Notre Dame Stadium. That surely is the reason the Irish staff is thrilled to see the below tweet from Tony Phillips Jr., a running back recruit from Bishop McNamara in Kankakee, Illinois:

Unless there’s something we don’t know about, Saturday stands to be a busy a day for Phillips because he already has tweeted about going to Illinois on the same day. He hasn’t tweeted about visiting the Illini since:

In March, Phillips also visited Purdue and Iowa, so it’s obvious that a lot of Big Ten programs are looking heavily at him. In January, he received offers from Massachusetts and Miami (Ohio). Those were on top of the offers he already had received from Syracuse, Tennessee and Florida Atlantic.

This kid will play somewhere with a fine reputation in college, and let’s hope it’s Notre Dame.

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