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Notre Dame adds yet another star to 2023 recruiting class

Who is the Notre Dame corner you were most excited about when they committed to the Irish?

Notre Dame has been trying to put the finishing touches on their 2022 recruiting class in recent days as the early signing period is now just days away.  That doesn’t mean they haven’t been hard at work beyond 2022 however as the Irish received another significant commitment in next year’s class over the weekend.

Justyn Rhett is a 6-1, 192-pound cornerback from powerhouse Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas and committed to Notre Dame over the weekend.  Rhett is listed by 247Sports as the 10th best corner nationally in the 2023 class and 101st player overall.

Rhett and Bishop Gorman are fresh off another Class 5A Nevada state championship, the program’s 11th in the last 13 years.  If the high school sounds familiar for Notre Dame fans it may be because it’s produced a handful of Fighting Irish players in recent years such as Ronnie Stanley, Alize Mack, and Nicco Fertitta.

Rhett becomes the seventh commitment in Notre Dame’s 2023 class and chose the Irish over Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, and USC.

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‘Top Class’ docu-series on Sierra Canyon coming to Amazon February 26

LeBron James is listed as an Executive Producer on the project which is sure to feature his son, Bronny James.

There has been an unprecedented amount of media following Bronny James and the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers over the past couple of years, with massive crowds following them everywhere prior to the start of the coronavirus pandemic shutting down sanctioned high school sports in most of the country. But while there has been tons of coverage there was one caveat: no interviews with the players, especially Bronny. Now those who want to know what it was like on last year’s Sierra Canyon squad, the most famous high school team in the country, thanks to a documentary series executive produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter.

“Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers” will hit Amazon Prime Video’s free streaming service IMBdTV on February 26, according to a press release. IMDbTV also released a trailer to show viewers what they might see in the docu-series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMF5xEQl9CU&feature=youtu.be

The pressures, the attention, the classwork, and all the other drama that comes from trying to win a third straight state championship while having more attention than most NBA teams shines through in the trailer. We’ll see what LeBron and Maverick Carter learned from their own experience producing a documentary about LeBron’s final high school season, ‘More Than A Game’ (2009).

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Texas remains top Big 12 class in 2021 recruiting cycle

Texas remains the top class in the Big 12 for the 2021 recruiting class with six commits. WVU, ISU, Baylor, and KSU round out the top five.

Despite most of the sports world being shut down due to COVID-19, recruiting never sleeps and has continued on for Tom Herman. The pandemic has affected the 2021 cycle no doubt, but the same schools are at the top of the rankings again.

In the Big 12, Texas is still the top overall class in the conference. The Longhorns have six commits at the moment, all from inside the state of Texas. Here are the commits and their rating according to the 247Sports Composite:

To go along with these six players, Texas is also expected to land two highly rated brothers on the offensive line. Tommy Brockermeyer is a five-star offensive tackle, while his brother James comes in as a four-star center. Holding off a push from Alabama, the twins have a family history of playing on the Forty Acres.

Looking past the Longhorns, the top five in the Big 12 rounds out with West Virginia, Iowa State, Baylor, and Kansas State. A glaring omission is Oklahoma, who currently sit seventh in the conference.

From a national perspective, the Big 12 as a whole is struggling. Only two teams from the conference rank inside the top 20, with Texas being the highest at 16th overall. Some non-traditional big-time recruiting programs such as North Carolina, Minnesota, Maryland, Iowa, and Rutgers currently rank ahead of the entire Big 12.

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