South Bend – James Blanchard, credited like the engine of the resurgence of Texas Tech on the recruitment track, could go next to Our Lady soccer.
According to several national recruitment sites, including On3.com and Texasfootball.com, Blanchard has become the main candidate to replace the former Irish managing director Chad BowdenWho left for the USC archrival last weekend.
Since the arrival of Blanchard in November 2021, the Red raiders Signed their very first five -star prospect (2024 Wideout Micah Hudson) and managed to attract the USC ball carrier, Quenten Joyner to Sleepy Lubbock, Texas.
According to coach Joey McGuire, Texas Tech posted three consecutive winning seasons and two recruitment courses in the top-30 in the past three years, according to 247 composite sports. The recruitment site classifies the transfer course of 17 Texas Tech players as the third best at the national level this offseason.
Last July, in the middle of the USC openings, Blanchard would have signed a two -year $ 800,000 contract to stay in Texas Tech. His annual salary had previously spent the Big 12 school from $ 185,000 to $ 220,000.
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Bowden would earn $ 1 million a year with the Trojan horsesAlmost four times his basic salary reported to Notre Dame.
Blanchard, graduated in 2008 of the Stark High School in West Orange, Texas, previously passed two seasons to the recruitment / staff team in Baylor. In 2021, he worked in Waco with the former Irish recipient coach Chansi Stuckey.
After following Baylor coach Matt Rhule, at the NFL Carolina Panthers, Blanchard spent the 2020 NFL season as a professional scout.
Father of five children with wife Kiara, Blanchard started his own football recruitment service in 2014. Rhule, now in Nebraska, hired him as a recruitment director of Baylor in March 2019.
Mike Berardino covers Notre Dame football for the South Bend Tribune and Ndinsider.com. Follow him on social networks @Mikeberardino.
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