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Notre Dame football is back.
Spring practice for the Irish began Thursday, and third-year head coach Marcus Freeman has plenty to sift through with an experienced roster where starting jobs are up for grabs.
The one overarching theme of his first meeting with the media was that time is not of the essence in South Bend.
“I loved the efficiency of practice,” Freeman said after the Irish’s first spring practice on Thursday morning. “The guys did a great job of executing.”
Here are three takeaways from Marcus Freeman’s first press conference of the spring football season.
The best part of the quarterback room
After having Sam Hartman for one year, Notre Dame has to fill Hartman’s shoes with a new starting quarterback.
Duke transfer Riley Leonard, highly rated freshman CJ Carr and Sun Bowl starter Steve Angeli make up the major players in that room, which is a good place to be for the Irish.
There’s experience in Angeli and Leonard, plus there’s promise in Carr, a four-star quarterback recruit plucked from the depth of Michigan territory.
“I’ve been impressed with Riley,” Freeman said. “And that entire room.”
Freeman noted the best part of the Notre Dame quarterback room, out of all its factors, is that there’s no rush to decide who the starting quarterback is.
There’s time to undergo a lengthy competition in spring to see who emerges, and Freeman wants that competition to make each quarterback better.
Freeman knows there’s a preconceived notion about who has the upper hand in the quarterback competition. Landing one of the top transfer quarterbacks in the portal for the second-straight year, this year in Leonard, leads to the idea that he’ll be the quarterback to beat in the competition.
Still, that’s why there’s a competition.
“You have an opinion based on what you’ve seen in the past,” Freeman said. “You still have to make it…
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Publish date : 2024-03-07 17:34:48
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