Notre Dame will have a first quarter-back leaving for the opening of next season in Miami.
Thursday afternoon, this became certain when the reports surfaced that the quarter-Arrière Steve Angeli would enter the transfer portal during the spring window, which opened its doors on Wednesday. Angeli, who started Sun Bowl a year ago and played a role in Notre Dame’s victory against Penn State in Orange Bowl in January, will leave as a graduate transfer.
This means that Notre Dame will turn to CJ Carr or Kenny Minchey as next quarter-back leaving, a tandem that each took four shots last season, while eruption of Purdue in mid-September. The opening of the 2025 season in Miami, then against Texas A&M in the first home game, will be a massive jump for one or the other quarter. He is a jumping coach Marcus Freeman wanted to take according to the moment of Angeli’s departure.
After Our Lady’s spring match last weekend, Freeman said he preferred if the quarter competition was reduced to two at the top of the summer and to the training camp, both for the sake of efficiency and leaving the offensive to find a direction. Now it happened.
“We will talk about it and have discussions to move forward. You would like to be able to go to the fall with a two -quarter battle,” said Freeman before the news on Thursday. “It’s really difficult to really have a three -quarter battle. But we have to sit down and have conversations on what is best for our program, which is best for our quarters, and we will make these decisions in the future.”
If the spring match was a referendum on which slipped where in the quarter, it is not clear if Angeli lost the departure post, but he certainly did not win it. The junior went 8 out of 11 for 108 yards and a hit, shaking a slow start to hit his last seven passes. Carr went 14 out of 19 for 170 yards, two affected and interception. Miméy went 6 out of 14 for 106 yards and also ran for a touchdown.
If Notre Dame went with Angeli, it would be considered the safe choice, given her experience of support both Sam Hartman and Riley Leonard in the past two seasons. But it would also be a conservation, since Notre Dame brought Hartman and Leonard as transfers in part because he did not like what he had on the list.
Freeman did not take this route this off -season after Carr was healthy after the neck injury last season and Milchey’s ability to become the offense. Now, Notre Dame will see how the two have developed since there is no Angeli to support them.
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