When Kenny Minchey lost the starting quarterback competition to redshirt freshman CJ Carr, Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman didn’t offer comfort—he offered perspective.
Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman during his Monday press conference ahead of the Boston College matchup, revealed a conversation he had with backup quarterback Kenny Minchey that speaks about the culture the Irish program has built under his leadership.
Redshirt freshman quarterback CJ Carr was named the starter last week after winning an extremely close position battle with redshirt sophomore Kenny Minchey.
Given the year, team and position, how many of these first-year defensive standouts since the 2000 season can you name in five minutes?
Notre Dame is full speed ahead with CJ Carr as its new starting quarterback as the Fighting Irish prepare for Sunday’s season opener against the Miami Hurricanes.
It seems that anything that happens involving the Notre Dame Football program, whether it be positive or negative news, gets amplified 10x nationally. Why?
Notre Dame football now has their starting quarterback, announcing on Tuesday that redshirt freshman CJ Carr has won the job over Kenny Minchey. That battle has been all anyone has wanted to talk about all off-season, and it is great to finally have some resolution.
The Athletic's Pete Sampson provided more detail as to what might have led to Marcus Freeman waiting to name CJ Carr the starter.
The grandson of a former Michigan Wolverines head coach is taking over as quarterback at a rival school.
Notre Dame has finally made a decision on its starting quarterback for the 2025 season, announcing that redshirt freshman CJ Carr has won the starting quarterback battle and will open up for the Irish in the season opener against Miami (Fla.) on August 31.
The quarterback competition that at times felt like it was never going to end at Notre Dame, has ended. That is, of course, unless it hasn't. Head coach Marcus Freeman said on Sunday that he would be the one to ultimately choose who Notre Dame's starting quarterback would be.
Notre Dame's fall camp is always a spectacle. The Irish fan base and media contingent spend all summer pontificating what if this, what if that? Then, after an arduous journey through the dog days of summer, the calendar changes to August and football makes its glorious return.
Quarterback, of course, is the most important individual position in all of sports. This position, more than any other, dictates whether a team wins or loses.
Did you know that Notre Dame is in the middle of a quarterback battle? You mean people haven’t been talking about that enough? Obviously those questions are built off of sarcasm with the names CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey being the ultimate SEO hacks right now.
Unless you've been living under a rock, you are very well aware of Notre Dame's ongoing QB battle between CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey to claim the starting role for the Irish in 2025.
It has become a somewhat exhausting conversation, but the Notre Dame quarterback battle is incredibly important for head coach Marcus Freeman and the program's hopes of making a National Championship run in 2025.
CJ Carr may have been viewed as the default favorite to be named the starting quarterback for Notre Dame this coming football season , but the race between he and Kenny Minchey may be much closer than most have expected.
The quarterback battle for Notre Dame is set to come to an end shortly.
For the first time in quite a while, Notre Dame fans have to deal with a legitimate quarterback battle heading into the 2025 college football season. In one corner, you have redshirt freshman CJ Carr, once considered a borderline five-star player in the 2024 recruiting class, and considered the “golden child” by some.
The Notre Dame football season begins in less than three weeks, and it is starting with a bang. The Fighting Irish will hit the road in Week 1 for a rivalry matchup against Miami.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know that Notre Dame football is in the middle of a heated quarterback battle. In one corner, we have redshirt freshman CJ Carr.
Notre Dame football is two days into fall camp and the quarterback competition is only picking up steam. Thursday's opening practice was bit shaky as candidates CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey combined to throw four interceptions.
The Fighting Irish opened up training camp on Thursday, marking the first day of Notre Dame's quarterback competition between Kenny Minchey and CJ Carr.
It's going to be an interesting season for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and head coach Marcus Freeman.
Marcus Freeman plans to waste no time getting his starting quarterback prepared to lead Notre Dame against Miami at Hard Rock Stadium on Aug. 31. The fourth-year head coach wants to get CJ Carr and Kenny Minchey up to speed in training camp before starting the season against the Hurricanes and Texas A&M.
Notre Dame is going through its first real quarterback battle since 2018, and rising junior Kenny Minchey is part of that competition. Minchey finally gets his shot to win the job, and he has the talent to battle with CJ Carr for the position.
Kenny Minchey might not be able to throw a football over a mountain but the big right arm the Notre Dame quarterback possesses can throw that sphere with enough accuracy and distance to make that feat actually feel like a possibility.
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