Bring in a 4-5* QB every cycle if you can. That’s usually the best you can do.
2016: Ian Book
2017: Avery Davis
2018: Phil Jurkovec
2019: Brendon Clark
2020: Drew Pyne
2021: Tyler Buchner
2022: ???
I think the staff has done a solid job of always keeping the cupboards full. When that happens, you don’t have to rely on a FR or youngster to immediately the job from a leaving starter. When Book leaves (likely after this season), you’ll have 3rd year Phil Jurkovec, RS FR Brendon Clark and incoming FR Drew Pyne. At that point you’ll have 2 QB’s with experience and knowledge of the playbook and a QB who enrolls early so the QB job will be competed on in the spring, summer and fall with a full complement of QB’s. As long as they continue to recruit at a high level, I’m confident they’ll find someone who can play QB well. I think Phil Jurkovec will be a fine QB in his 3rd year at ND. Hopefully he gets a lot of minutes this fall.