Notre Dame looked to the other side of the country for one of their defensive back offers. In doing so, they returned to familiar recruiting grounds. Tyson Cisrow, DB, 6-1, 190, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Fort Lauderdale, FL hails from the same school as 2014 Notre Dame commit Corey Holmes. In fact, it was while looking at Holmes, that the Irish also began to recruit Cisrow.
“One of my good friends and teammates, Corey Holmes is going up there,” Cisrow shared. “That’s when I first started looking into them. Then during the season I heard Coach (Tony) Alford was looking at me and recruiting me. After the season I got in contact with him and we’ve been talking here and there. Notre Dame has always been a top program and Coach (Brian) Kelly has the team running nice. It’s always been one of my favorites.”
When Cisrow spoke with Alford a few weeks ago, he told the Irish Recruiting Coordinator that he hoped to make it up for the Spring Game or the summer. The Florida speedster is very interested in learning more about Notre Dame.
“I just want to see that home atmosphere,” he said. “I just want to go up there and see how the football is. Corey’s told me there’s nowhere else like Notre Dame. It’s just a great program that I should look into, that’s what Corey said.”
Holmes will join Florida transfer Cody Riggs as former St. Thomas Aquinas players in South Bend. Cisrow really isn’t surprised that so many former Raiders have ended up at Notre Dame.
“We’re a Catholic private school,” he explained. “Notre Dame is like that. They take their education very seriously up there like St. Thomas. They relate to each other.”
Cisrow currently holds offers from Penn State, West Virginia, Illinois, Cincinnati, South Florida and others. Clearly he feels genuinely grateful for the attention.
“It’s a blessing first of all,” he said about the offers. “It feels like all my hard work is kind of paying off. It’s like a dream come true. I’m glad people have given me recognition early.”
Cisrow, who has been clocked at 4.45 in the forty credits his off the field work with his on the field success.
“I put in a lot of time in the film room,” he said. “When I take it to the field I already know what’s going to happen. The biggest aspect of my game is making plays on the ball; that’s what I love doing.”
Cisrow has already been to Miami and plans to see South Florida and Georgia Tech soon. He also plans to make it to Notre Dame. He knows what he’s going to be looking for on his visits.
“Definitely education and, like I said, feeling comfortable,” he said. “For the football picture, going in and being able to get playing time and being comfortable around the team.”
Cisrow hopes to have a decision by summer, but if he can’t decide in that time frame, at the very least he wants to get it out of the way before the start of his senior season so that he can concentrate on bringing another state championship to St. Thomas Aquinas.