I understand Syracuse and Virginia Tech have reached out. He is up to 255 and a great student.
Former Notre Dame defensive lineman Aiden Gobaira enters NCAA transfer portal
by:
Tyler Horka•10/22/
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Former Notre Dame defensive end Aiden Gobaira. (Photo by Chad Weaver/BGI)
A former Notre Dame defensive lineman has entered the NCAA transfer portal according to a report from On3’s Pete Nakos.
Aiden Gobaira will look for another place to finish his college career.
In June, Notre Dame confirmed with Blue & Gold that Gobaira — and fellow class fo 2022 defensive line signee
Tyson Ford, who also entered the portal earlier this month — had been dismissed from the Fighting Irish program via a medical scholarship. Almost exactly four months to the day, Nakos broke the news that Gobaira is looking to get back into college football.
Gobaira tore his ACL in fall camp 2023 and missed the entire ensuing season plus 2024 spring practices. That amounted to valuable time lost in trying to assert himself as an option for position coach
Al Washington along the Notre Dame defensive line.
Gobaira arrived in South Bend as the No. 177 overall prospect and a four-star talent in the recruiting class of 2022. He was the No. 20 edge rusher in the class, according to the On3 Industry Ranking, and the No. 5 player from the state of Virginia.
In 2021, Gobaira was a Maxwell Football Club National High School Defensive Player of the Year Award semifinalist. He played in the spring that year because of COVID, and he had 16 sacks in eight games. He was the Regional Defensive Player of the Year for head coach
Sean Curry at Fairfax (Va.) Chantilly High School.