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Jourdan Blake previously worked in the recruiting department at Colorado for two seasons.Blake replaces Zaire Turner, who left Notre Dame to join USC.
SOUTH BEND —Jourdan Blake, who spent the past two seasons in the recruiting department at Colorado, has joined Notre Dame football as its new director of player personnel.
Notre Dame made the announcement on Tuesday evening. Blake replaces Zaire Turner, who followed former Notre Dame general manager Chad Bowden to USC in late January.
Also announced Tuesday were the additions of Myron Tagovailoa-Amosa as director of recruiting advancement and Ariella Ellis as director of on-campus recruiting. Tagovailoa-Amosa, a former Irish defensive lineman and team captain in 2021, spent last season as a graduate assistant at LSU.
Ellis, a 2021 Virginia State graduate, spent the past two years as football operations director at her alma mater, which competes at the Division II level.
A former reserve defensive back at Baylor (2014-17) and Southern Methodist (2018), Blake is the son of former Oklahoma coach John Blake, the first Black head coach in any sport for the Sooners.
We are excited to announce some updates and new additions to our football personnel staff 
Welcome to the Irish family, Jourdan and Ariella
Welcome home, Myron #GoIrish pic.twitter.com/XTnR0g2Z0R
— Notre Dame Football (@NDFootball) March 18, 2025
John Blake, who died of a heart attack at age 59 in July of 2020, was a former Sooners nose guard and assistant coach. Blake won two Super Bowl rings as a…
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