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Notre Dame Week 3 highlight: Kenny Minchey gets first career TD

Notre Dame is winning by so much that a third-string QB can get his first career TD.

Notre Dame is dominating the Purdue Boilermakers so thoroughly that third-string quarterback Kenny Minchey is in the game.

He promptly finished off a 3-play, 31-yard touchdown drive with a 5-yard run. That put the Fighting Irish up 66-7 with 5:44 to play.

Talk about a response to the letdown against Northern Illinois.

The Fighting Irish still have a long road ahead if they want to make the College Football Playoff, but this game is a strong start. Notre Dame will still have little room for error going forward, but perhaps a rattled Irish team will get its confidence back following this blowout of the Boilermakers.

 

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Watch: Notre Dame football shares a minute-long clip of its first 2024 practice

The Irish have started fall camp, and the season is right around the corner

As many teams across the nation are doing, Notre Dame football opened up its fall camp on Wednesday morning.

The Irish rely on its fantastic social media team to produce top-level content, and once again they hit it out of the park. In a minute-long mashup of the first 2024 fall practice for Notre Dame, you can see many of the top returning players with some of the young guys mixed in.

What was interesting to see was that the clip ended with quarterback [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] throwing a great pass to wide receiver [autotag]Beaux Collins[/autotag] with cornerback [autotag]Chance Tucker[/autotag] in coverage. Our first real glimpse of the 2024 Irish football team is finally here.

Notre Dame opens its season on August 31st, as they travel to College Station to take on Texas A&M in a prime-time matchup.

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Notre Dame football lands their 2026 quarterback

The recruiting quarterback success continues for the Irish

The continued focus on landing high-level quarterbacks since Marcus Freeman took over the Notre Dame football program continued on Saturday.

[autotag]Noah Grubbs[/autotag], a 2026 Florida prospect, committed to the Irish, giving them a second commit of the cycle joining wide receiver Dylan Faison. The 6-foot, 4-inch and 188-pound quarterback is a 4-star as the nations No. 118 overall prospect and 10th rated at his position according to the 247Sports Composite Rankings.

Over the last three recruiting cycles, Notre Dame has brought in [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag], [autotag]CJ Carr[/autotag], along with commitments [autotag]Deuce Knight[/autotag] and now Grubbs. All of them are ranked as 4-stars, which shows that the Irish are stacking quarterbacks.

Now with a big-time quarterback prospect, the hope is that Grubbs will lure other elite players to join him in South Bend.

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Watch: Kenny Minchey finds Micah Gilbert for tying score in Notre Dame spring game

We could get used to Minchey to Gilbert

You have to give some credit to Notre Dame quarterback [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] for not letting an early interception deter the day.

It would have been very easy for him to turtle up and just go through the motions following an ill-advised throw in the first half. Minchey started to find his groove following the bad pass, and he make one of those highlight reel passes you love to see.

The second-year player found early enrolling true freshman wide receiver [autotag]Micah Gilbert[/autotag] along the right side on a beautiful throw over his right shoulder for a score. The impressive throw tied the game at 14 points midway through the third.

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Watch: Kenny Minchey runs it in for third score of Notre Dame’s spring game

The second-year quarterback finds the end zone

Although Notre Dame football’s second-year quarterback [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] threw an interception earlier in the Blue and Gold game, it didn’t put him in the dumps.

A few series following the errand throw, Minchey drove his Gold team down the field and into the red zone. He initially rolled out to his left looking to throw the ball, but when no one came open, he called his own number and powered his way into the end zone.

It does look like at this moment Minchey is most likely the third-string quarterback behind Riley Leonard and Steve Angeli, but putting points on the board must have felt great for him.

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Oklahoma’s five-star quarterback who almost chose Notre Dame

The dorm life at Notre Dame isn’t for everyone…

Oklahoma rising-sophomore quarterback [autotag]Jackson Arnold[/autotag] enrolled early and will enter 2024 as the starter in Norman.

Arnold was ranked a five-star quarterback and a top 10 player nationally in the 2023 recruiting class by 247Sports. He was heavily pursued by [autotag]Tommy Rees[/autotag] and Notre Dame.

Notre Dame almost landed Arnold, too, but something very specific about the campus didn’t sit well with him. Arnold was on the “Red Dirt Rambles” podcast and shared just how close he was to wearing blue and gold.

“If I wasn’t here, I’d probably be at Notre Dame right now,” Arnold said. “If (Jeff Lebby) didn’t get hired here or if it were a different coach other than Coach (Brent Venables), who knows where I’d be right now?”

Teammate and wide receiver target Nic Anderson co-hosts the podcast and shared how close he was to going to Notre Dame as well.

“I almost went to Notre Dame, but their dorms scared me away,” said Anderson, who also mentioned not being a fan of their public bathrooms. “That’s what scared me because I’m low key a germaphobe. … But it didn’t end up being the determining factor.”

Arnold started the Alamo Bowl in December against Arizona. He had ups and downs, completing 26 of 45 passes for 361 yards and two touchdowns while also throwing three interceptions in the loss.

After Arnold turned down Notre Dame, the Irish staff turned their focus elsewhere for a quarterback in the class, ultimately getting a commitment from [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag].

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Notre Dame Football 2024 Outlook: Quarterbacks (1.0)

How does Notre Dame look at quarterback entering 2024?

Notre Dame finished the 2023 football season with three-straight wins to go 10-3, wrapping with a dominating 40-8 win over Oregon State in the Sun Bowl.

A dominating defense remains largely intact as the page now turns to 2024 but what about the offense?

We will go position-by-position this January breaking down what is lost and who returns for the Fighting Irish in 2024 – and what it all means for the season to come.

Today we look at the quarterbacks as the Irish have to replace one of the most experienced signal callers in the history of college football.  Let’s take an initial look at how the quarterback situation shapes up entering 2024 – obviously this is all possible to change at a moment’s notice given the modern day transfer portal workings.

Notre Dame to search transfer portal for quarterback again in 2024

What kind of quarterback will Notre Dame be looking for?

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.

Notre Dame football offers 2026 Florida quarterback

The Irish are already focused on 2026 quarterback recruiting

If there has one significant recruiting difference for [autotag]Notre Dame football[/autotag] in the [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] era, it’s at quarterback.

The Irish are starting to build a room that looks like one of the best in the country, and it all starts with recruiting. During Freeman’s first “cycle” they signed [autotag]Steve Angeli[/autotag], who is currently that backup to [autotag]Sam Hartman[/autotag]. Last year it was [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag], a player who has already seen time on the field very early into his career.

The 2024 class has [autotag]CJ Carr[/autotag] committed while the 2025 class has [autotag]Deuce Knight[/autotag]. The focus is now on 2025 and the Irish offered Florida’s [autotag]Will Griffin[/autotag] on Wednesday.

The 6-foot, 3-inch and 215-pound quarterback is ranked as the No. 5 player at his position and 62nd nationally by the 247Sports Composite Rankings. The competition for Griffin’s signature will be fierce, but Notre Dame has now entered the picture.

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Marcus Freeman isn’t sure who will quarterback Notre Dame football next year

An interesting answer from Freeman on the who the Irish will turn to at quarterback next year

Two of the last three seasons, [autotag]Notre Dame football[/autotag] has used the transfer portal to find its starting quarterback.

Wisconsin transfer [autotag]Jack Coan[/autotag] and Wake Forest transfer and current Irish quarterback [autotag]Sam Hartman[/autotag] clearly were great options, but each of them only had one season in South Bend. Naturally, questions about who will take over next year will happen.

Irish head coach [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] was asked that question and his answer was fairly simple, he’s not sure. Multiple in-house options like [autotag]Steve Angeli[/autotag] and [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag], with [autotag]CJ Carr[/autotag] on the way, give Notre Dame credence not to look for a new starter in the portal. That doesn’t mean that Freeman won’t consider it.

It’s an answer that many would question, but considering the lack of experience currently behind Hartman, going into the portal to find another potential starter isn’t the worst idea. At this current moment, we have no idea which quarterbacks will look to move on, but Freeman keeping his options open is a very smart idea.

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