SOUTH BEND – Random thoughts while watching the Notre Dame football spring scrimmage (the real spring game) Saturday and wondering if there might be one or two or eight parking tickets on the windshield by the workday’s end ...
- It still feels like the 2024 season ended days and not months ago. It may feel that way right up to the 2025 opener August 31 back down in South Florida.
- Nine practices to date weren’t enough, and nine more likely still won’t be, to decide a starting quarterback. The guy who starts that first game might not be the guy who starts the sixth. Might be one of those deals. And seasons.
- Weird to watch Notre Dame football spring practice and not see a clear-cut No. 1 at quarterback. Even when Riley Leonard was scootering through stretch lines last April, you knew he was the guy.
- Is a Notre Dame football practice/game official if we don’t see tailback Jeremiyah Love hurdle someone? Anyone? If so, Saturday’s 60-play scrimmage never happened after the junior was shelved early when he tweaked his right hamstring.
- Bubble wrap J-Love now. No need to see him do anything until August.
- Those 60 plays included more quarterback scrambles than anyone ever needs to see.
- When his group gets healthy, offensive line coach Joe Rudolph will have something every position coach covets — options. Maybe plenty of them.
- Same holds true for linebackers coach Max Bullough, who may have six capable/ready/worthy ‘backers for two available spots.
- Sophomore C.J. Carr worked with the No. 1 offense on Saturday. Don’t read too much (really, anything) into that.
- None of the quarterbacks did anything that said he should be the guy. Rhythm for the offense Saturday was a rumor.
- The roles of captains/leaders will sort themselves out of the next few months but expect the next wave to come from a group that includes the three quarterbacks (Steve Angeli, Carr, Kenny Minchey), offensive lineman Charles Jagusah, linebackers Drayk Bowen and Jaylen Sneed and safety Adon Shuler. Marcus Freeman even threw sophomore corner Leonard Moore into that mix. He’s been that good this early.
- Sneed made one play — a ...
