2024 Vyper Target Sterling Dixon Calls Notre Dame Offer "Blessing"

He was told to give the Notre Dame coaches a call last week and Sterling Dixon‍ is glad he did.

“I FaceTimed them and they told me that they was going to offer me and they offered me,” the 2024 Vyper prospect from Alabama said.

Dixon spoke with Irish defensive line coach Al Washington first before Washington put head coach Marcus Freeman on the phone to give him the news.

“It was crazy,” Dixon continued. “It's just a blessing to get an offer from such a prestigious school and it's definitely a school that I'm going to consider. I was just shocked more than anything.”

Notre Dame joins a list that already included schools like Georgia, Tennessee, Florida State, Ole Miss, USC and Oregon among others.

Notre Dame is certainly intriguing.

“Just the academics part and they're one of the winningest teams,” Dixon explained. “They're always in the hunt for a national championship.”

The Mobile Christian School star said he recently reconnected with the Irish.

“I was talking to Coach Lance Taylor before he left and offered me at Louisville,” said Dixon. “Then the Director of Recruiting started talking to me from Notre Dame and then after that, they just offered.”

The 6-foot-3, 211-pounder’s initial impressions of Washington are positive.

“He's just humble,” Dixon said of Washington. “I love how he treated me on the phone. I just can't wait to get up there to just get a better feel for him. I can tell that he knows the game.”

Dixon doesn’t have a date to visit South Bend yet, but said he’ll “probably” be there this spring or summer.

“I just want to see what kind of defense they run,” he said. “I just want to see how they're going to treat me when I get there, get to talk to some of the players and see how it is it on a daily basis, what they do and stuff like that.”

Dixon has taken recent trips to Clemson, South Carolina and South Alabama and is scheduled to be at LSU and Florida soon.

He’ll have his eye on his long-term football future when choosing a college.

“If they can provide my three-year plan. I want to be able to make it to The League in three years, which means me leaving my junior year and academics most definitely.”

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