Blue and Gold Illustrated

February 2013

Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football

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football recruiting Top Running Back Target Joins Irish By Jason Sapp T he stage was set. The timing was just a little off. Cocoa (Fla.) High running back Tarean Folston had planned to use the setting of the nationally televised 2013 Under Armour All-America Game in St. Petersburg, Fla., as his announce- commitment profile tarean folston ment platform to let the country know where he would be going to college. The hats were purchased to represent the finalists for Folston's decision: Florida State, Notre Dame and Oregon. However, there was no hat game. The nation's No. 116 overall recruit was ready to make his choice be known sooner and reveled where he was headed on Jan. 2 instead of during the contest two days later. "I just committed to Notre Dame," the 5-9, 185-pound four-star running back told 247Sports national director of scouting Gerry Hamilton. "Notre Dame is just a home feeling. There are a lot of guys fighting for the same goal — to get to the championship and winning. I think these guys are going to succeed this year, and next year we'll come in and do it also." Folston joins fellow Florida native Greg Bryant of Delray Beach to form a potent running back tandem for Notre Dame's 2013 recruiting class. "I think Notre Dame got one of the Tarean Folston, the country's No. 116 overall player according to 247Sports, pledged to Notre Dame two days before taking part in the Under Armour All-America Game. photo courtesy 247sports best backs in the country, really two of the best backs with him and Bryant," 247Sports national recruiting director JC Shurburtt said. "It was fortunate that there was a lot of running back talent in the state of Florida this year. Both guys ended up being great op-

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