From Driskell’s article:
"They didn’t need much of a pitch to me honestly,” he said. "The school, brand, education and football speak for itself.”
Now leaving South Bend, there are tentative plans for Leonard to visit both Auburn and Ohio State.
Having been to all three, all three schools and towns are pretty different from one another.
Football aside, Notre Dame most resembles Duke, an environment he’s already familiar with.
Auburn-Opelika is obviously close to home, and he’s bound to know a ton of people and have friends there (I think I read his girlfriend attends Auburn?).
Ohio State is kind of the odd one out. However, they’ve produced the best quarterbacks of the three and have had the most recent success of the three.
I’m not sure if he’s even Catholic (or how much that comes into play), but the Gulf Coast region has a ton of Catholics.