Notre Dame is set to have three scholarship quarterbacks on their roster to start the 2024 season.
Steve Angeli would be the perceived starter while Kenny Minchey would likely be QB-2 and incoming freshman CJ Carr would be the third. Having just three scholarship quarterbacks on the roster isn’t something Marcus Freeman is too high on, however.
“As I told Steve (Angeli) and Kenny (Minchey), who’s done a really good job in practice, is that we owe it to this program to try to put four quarterbacks on scholarship. That’s the number we have allotted for. We have three right now, but we’ve had since I became a head coach and before, the number being four. If somebody transfers and then all sudden, you’re down to three, but we want to try to always have four guys on scholarship but that has nothing to do in my beliefs and [autotag]Steve Angeli[/autotag] and [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag]. Both of those guys are extremely talented, and I can see being the leader of our program as we move forward.”
Marcus Freeman on Nov. 13, 2023
It’s not at all surprising that Freeman and Notre Dame plan to go to the portal for another scholarship quarterback next season. It’s not the that though, it’s more the type that I’m interested in knowing about.
Certainly it depends on who ends up becoming available but from the onset the biggest question is this – are they looking to simply add depth or are they hoping to add someone who will genuinely compete for, if not enter 2024 as the favorite for the starting job?
It seems like Notre Dame is caught between a rock and a hard place a bit at quarterback. They want to develop their own product to have for more than just a year or two but they also don’t want to start a quarterback without starting experience.
We’ll have plenty more of this here at Fighting Irish Wire up until the next newest Fighting Irish quarterback is here so stay tuned.