Notre Dame and Niuafe Tuihalamaka just needed to wait for the pandemic-induced dead period to end.
But he waited to visit South Bend last weekend before making his decision, choosing Notre Dame over Texas, Stanford and Arizona State on Saturday afternoon.
That exhaustive search and extensive offer list, despite Tuihalamaka’s junior season being delayed to the spring due to the pandemic, comes because as a sophomore, he already had a frame ready for the next level.
Tuihalamaka is the 15th commit in the class of 2022 and the eighth defender, led by consensus four-star defensive end Tyson Ford , the No.