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Notre Dame football: Should Irish be worried about prized QB recruit C.J. Carr?

On a scale of 1-10, how worried are you about CJ Carr potentially looking elsewhere?

Before leaving Notre Dame for Alabama, one thing former Irish offensive coordinator [autotag]Tommy Rees[/autotag] did was improve the talent in the quarterback room through recruiting. He helped land commitments from [autotag]Tyler Buchner[/autotag] and [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] in recent classes, as well as from transfer quarterback [autotag]Sam Hartman[/autotag].

The future for Notre Dame at the position however appears to have the potential to be as high as the career as 2024 quarterback [autotag]C.J. Carr[/autotag]. Carr, the grandson of (0.5) national championship Michigan head coach Lloyd Carr, committed to the Irish late last summer.  He has the highest recruiting ranking of any Notre Dame quarterback since 2015 (247Sports).

Could Carr be looking to take his talents elsewhere, though?

Technically, yes. But also no. I know that’s more than a bit confusing to read so work with me here.

According to Landyn Rosow of Rivals, Carr is going to visit Texas A&M this weekend.

Top 20 Recruit in 2024 CJ Carr (ND commit) will be visiting Texas A&M this weekend. #GigEm

What isn’t mentioned in Rosow’s tweet is that Carr’s 7-on-7 team is competing at Texas A&M this weekend, which is why he’ll be visiting the College Station campus. Just like he did recently when participating with the same team near the University of Washington.

Based off how aggressively Texas A&M approaches name, image and likeness issues they’re certainly a program that strikes a bit of fear when you hear they’re hosting a player. But again, context is everything here.

Carr declared to On3 that he was still locked in on his Notre Dame commitment shortly after Rees departed. If we’re to believe Carr (and what has he done to date to make anyone feel otherwise?) then Notre Dame shouldn’t have much to worry about here.

That’s not to say they don’t still have to make Carr feel special themselves, but that’s just the world of recruiting. I hate the difficulty in the task of trying to get in the mind of a 16 or 17 year old kid, but in order to know the answer that’s what one has to do.

Based off what we know and have heard from Carr, this certainly feels like a big to-do over what seems like a whole lot of nothing.

Now let’s just hope for the sake of the future of Notre Dame at quarterback it stays that way.

Check out a few highlights of Carr and why Notre Dame fans are so excited about him below!

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Meet Notre Dame’s Now Complete 2023 Recruiting Class

Meet Notre Dame’s 26 current commitments in what is a top-five class nationally.

After a whirlwind couple of years the 2023 recruiting class has officially been completed at Notre Dame.  What started out tremendously hit a few snags along the way.  It closed with one of the strangest signing day stories you’ll ever see when Peyton Bowen bailed on Notre Dame for Oregon, only to change his mind and bail on Oregon for Oklahoma just a day later.

In all, Notre Dame wound up with 24 signed commitments after the second signing period in February.  It didn’t finish in the top couple of spots nationally like we had hoped after it’s tremendous start but will continue to add to the overall talent for Notre Dame.

Here are the 24 newest members of the Notre Dame football team:

Where each 2023 Notre Dame signee landed on ESPN’s final recruiting class update

The Irish class is loaded with talent

The first full class for [autotag]Marcus Freeman[/autotag] should be viewed at as a booming success for [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] football. Not only did the Irish fill holes but they created a lot of depth across every position group. It was extremely impressive for the first-time head coach.

Today, ESPN released their final update to the 2023 recruiting cycle and there was plenty of Irish signees that were named on their list. Even though there weren’t any players ranked inside the top 50, Notre Dame players were still all around the list.

Find out below which Fighting Irish signees made ESPN’s final top 300 list.

See It: Notre Dame’s newest quarterback moves in

Welcome home!

The newest Notre Dame signal-caller has moved into his college dorm.  Quarterback [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] is one of 12 incoming freshman football players who enrolled early and who will participate in Notre Dame’s spring practices this year. Minchey was a longtime Pittsburgh commitment before visiting Notre Dame late in the regular season and flipping his commitment.

Minchey comes to Notre Dame from Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tennessee. If that school sounds familiar to Fighting Irish fans, it should. It’s also the high school that 2009 Belitnikoff Award winner [autotag]Golden Tate[/autotag] attended before donning the blue and gold.

Minchey’s mother captured a few photos from dropping her middle child off at college and posted them to Twitter. Check them out:

Classes for the second spring semester at Notre Dame are scheduled to start Tuesday morning.

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Watch: Highlight of Notre Dame signees at All-American Bowl

Plenty of future Irish stars in Texas this week

The Irish are very well represented at this years [autotag]All-American Bowl[/autotag]. In total there are nine [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] signees that were invited to the game but for three of them (offensive lineman [autotag]Charles Jagusah[/autotag], quarterback [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] and defensive end [autotag]Boubacar Traore[/autotag]) are out with injuries.

The majority of the healthy future Irish players are in San Antonio already but wide receiver [autotag]Rico Flores[/autotag] won’t arrive until tomorrow. There are still more than a few highlights that were shared on twitter of the soon-to-be Irish freshman. Check out the clips below of Notre Dame’s next stars.

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Report: UCLA signee QB Dante Moore says Notre Dame ‘was the school I was leaning toward’

The Irish were in it but Moore elected elsewhere

The courtship between [autotag]Notre Dame[/autotag] and Michigan quarterback [autotag]Dante Moore[/autotag] was well documented. At one point it looked as if Moore would end up in South Bend. Then the situation changed for both parties.

Moore committed to [autotag]Oregon[/autotag] before flipping very late in the process to [autotag]UCLA[/autotag], with which he signed. [autotag]Tom Loy[/autotag] of Irish Illustrated caught up with Moore and in an in-depth interview (insider) about his recruitment with the Irish, he went into detail how it all played out.

Moore claimed Notre Dame “was probably my No. 1 school really throughout the majority of the process.” A trip to Eugene changed his thinking and generated a commitment shortly after that.

He went on to tell Loy he was never a silent commit, but he was very open with the Irish staff about his status as a recruit.

Another part of the interview that stood out was Moore’s conversations with other recruits about Notre Dame. [autotag]Kenny Minchey[/autotag] (who signed with the Irish) went to him, as did [autotag]Avery Johnson[/autotag], Moore said nothing but good things about the Irish to both.

Moore was very complimentary toward offensive coordinator [autotag]Tommy Rees[/autotag], calling him a genius and saying he always enjoyed breaking down film with him. The interview was a great perspective on how Moore navigated the process, and he seems like a very fine young man.

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Where did the top quarterbacks sign in the 2023 recruiting class?

Jackson Arnold to Oklahoma and Arch Manning to Texas, but where did the rest of the top quarterback sign to play college ball in 2023?

From the high school level to the NFL, quarterback play has become the greatest contributor to winning in the game of football. Teams can certainly win without great quarterback play, but they must have an elite defense and running game to do so.

So when a team lands one of the top quarterbacks in a recruiting class, it’s a big deal.

The Oklahoma Sooners have had their fair share of great quarterbacks over the last 20 years. Sooner quarterbacks have won four Heisman trophies and earned more trips to New York as a finalist as well.

In the 2023 cycle, the Sooners signed [autotag]Jackson Arnold[/autotag]. A four-star player at the time of his commitment last January, he has skyrocketed over the last 11 months. From earning Elite 11 MVP honors in the summer to becoming a consensus five-star player, Arnold’s stock has seen incredible growth. He backed that up with an incredible senior season, during which he accounted for 4,400 total yards and 57 touchdowns to help Denton Guyer reach the Texas 6A state semifinals.

He’s the highest-ranked player in the Oklahoma Sooners recruiting class, according to 247Sports. Arnold was the second-longest tenured commitment in the class before signing with Oklahoma on the first day of the early signing period. Pulling the No. 1 player in the state of Texas and the No. 7 player in the class is a huge win for [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] and [autotag]Jeff Lebby[/autotag].

Arnold’s addition helped ease the loss of Malachi Nelson, who flipped to USC to follow Lincoln Riley last December. Signing Arnold also helped the Sooners answer the Arch Manning signing by Texas.

There are a lot of good quarterbacks out there going to a lot of different places. Let’s take a look at where the top signal-callers landed.

Notre Dame Football 2023 early signing day tracker

This class didn’t waste any time getting their signatures to South Bend

It is finally upon us, the hard work the Irish football staff has put in can finally but a “bow” on the 2023 recruiting cycle. Yes, there is still another point where recruits can sign, but Marcus Freeman and his staff have already maxed out the class with verbals and if everyone signs, they will be one over the normal allotment of 25 players.

A few of the verbals didn’t waste any time faxing their information over to South Bend but they should keep coming in as the day proceeds. Find out below which Irish commitments have made their Notre Dame pledges complete. (This list will be updated as the day goes on so make sure to return.)

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Where each Notre Dame ‘23 commit landed on 247Sports updated Top 247

This list is long and impressive for the Irish

The Irish have amassed one of the top recruiting classes for the 2023 cycle, it has been an impressive group in the little time that Marcus Freeman has been leading the program. Yes, the news on this front has not been the best in the recent weeks, but the work has still been put in and the results are fantastic.

Since 247Sports has now analyzed the play from the past high school season, they made one of their final class updated and released their latest Top 247 recruits. Plenty of future Irish stars made their list and you can find out below which ones did and where they ended up.

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Friday Night Notes: New QBs for Notre Dame and Florida State, Oregon eats their fill, plus more

In this edition of Friday Night Notes, Florida State and Notre Dame get commitments from QBs, Oregon loads up and Alabama has a big weekend.

USA TODAY High School Sports‘ Friday Night Notes is a weekly high school recruiting recap that looks at the latest news from around the country—from the Class of 2023 to ’24 and beyond.

Many of the best quarterbacks from the recruiting class of 2023 have already made their college commitments. However, there are still a few potential diamonds in the rough out there. This week, Florida State and Notre Dame both picked up commitments from highly ranked QB prospects.

Florida State: Brock Glenn

On Monday Florida State pulled off a recruiting coup by flipping four-star QB Brock Glenn from Ohio State. Glenn (6-foot-2, 195 pounds) is ranked No. 23 at his position and No. 12 in the state of Tennessee. As a Junior, Glenn threw for 1,576 yards, 23 touchdowns and nine picks. He committed to the Buckeyes back in late July but the Seminoles never gave up on him.

Glenn is the ninth blue-chip prospect overall for Florida State, now ranked No. 17 in this recruiting cycle – a few points behind Arkansas. Ohio State has dropped to No. 6 behind Texas.

Notre Dame: Kenny Minchey

The Fighting Irish also managed a QB flip of their own, of sorts. Last week Kenny Minchey decommitted from Pittsburgh, and it’s now clear he had Notre Dame in his sights when he made that decision. On Tuesday, Minchey announced his new commitment:

Minchey (6-foot-1, 207 pounds) is ranked No. 12 in his class at his position and No. 254 overall in the country.

While getting Minchey was big, Notre Dame still ranks No. 3 in the recruiting race, while Pitt is all the way down at No. 50.

Here’s what else is in the notebook. Let’s get to it…