After the first day of Notre Dame’s fall camp the belief seemed to be that Brian Kelly was going to officially name the starting quarterback after Thursday’s practice. That wound up not being the case though as it’ll be at least a few more days before he makes that decision.
“We’re really, really close,” Kelly said. “Really, really, really close. We’re not going to do it here today, but we have an idea who it’s going to be and we want to talk to the kids, probably this weekend. My guess is we’ll have an announcement for you at the start of next week.” – Brian Kelly
The battle is between graduate-transfer Jack Coan, formerly of Wisconsin, and sophomore Drew Pyne, who moved to second on the depth chart last season after an knee injury to Brendon Clark.
It seems like from his words that Kelly’s mind is pretty much made up but that he wants to have a conversation with both quarterbacks beforehand.
I would continue to assume that it’s Coan’s job but as we mentioned multiple times since spring, you can’t help but get some Ian Book type vibes from Pyne in that no matter how much some want to push him to the side and forget about him, he’s still battling for a spot few expected he’d be able to actually compete for.