I wouldn't be surprised if Pyne stuck around, particularly if he is just short of getting his degree. He'd still have 2 years of eligibility after next year because of the COVID year and he redshirted last year.
Reminds me a lot of Jimmy Clausen in that regard.
Hopefully, for Arch's sake, his teams are better at defense than Clausen's were.
Yep and since he was a EE in 2020 he should have his degree by the spring. It would be great if he could somehow get his degree next month so he could take part in spring ball. Jalen Hurts was able to do that when he went to Oklahoma.
It kind of feels like whoever our QB is next year, they should be here for spring ball. Makes a huge difference.
Card is clearly very talented. I wouldn’t complain but I would be a little surprised because I think he is also less of a finished product than the other QBs that have been discussed around here.
Yep. The portal is fine to plug a hole but we really don't want to be relying on it annually. Especially since we basically can't take undergrads. We're left sorting among one-year rentals who mostly aren't starting on their current team. Frankly we got pretty lucky with Coan.
Seems to be working for these teams - some of the most improved. I think it is going to be the norm like the NIL. If the Irish can't take advantage of JUCO transfers, they should at least be looking at the portal every year. No offense to your post - just IMO.
There’s a non-zero chance that the QB room has six scholarship players next year, which is kind of crazy. Pyne might transfer if he has his degree in hand, but I’m not sure what you do with RP3.
USC is kind of a unique case. They hired a coach and he brought his all-world QB with him.
Ed O with Joe cool too.
I get this is a QB thread... and I get your response too. But there are other positions I believe the portal would benefit the Irish. I didn't mean my response/post to be only the QB position nor did I mean for the response to 'build' a team strictly through the portal. But the Irish would/could benefit from the portal players that could start 'Day One' since JUCO is and has been out of the equation....
Additionally - Weis was supposed to be the 'Schematic King' and 'BK the QB Creator King'... IMO MF could the the 'Team Builder King' with the portal.
Why cant ND yank RP3's schollie and give his dad a matching raise?
For sure. And we've had some good transfers come in and do that (including Coan). But I do think, unless/until we change our approach to undergrad transfers, we're going to be limited in how much use we can make of the portal.
It’s a much better problem to have then we had this season. Imagine if we had Caleb Williams instead of USC. And imagine USC without Caleb Williams.
Agree. Pyne is 3rd string at best and Buchner is inaccurate and unreliable. We 100% need a transfer. Sounds like the staff agrees with that. I’d be fine with a QB room of:
Eh, I trust Angeli having a year in the system would be serviceable at least. If we're rolling with Minchey then Buchner being an injury threat isn't as much of a concern, and visversa. At the end of the day we've still got Pyne to fall back on too with arguably more talent at all the skill positions next year except TE (But will still be pretty damn good). Just saying between those 4 guys, a hopefully serviceable OL or better, and a fair defense or better we should have no trouble winning a lot of games with that QB room. The only way I'm taking a transfer in that scenario is if he's above and beyond those 4 guys in talent...but the likelihood such an individual exists and isn't already getting drafted is unlikely.
The major difference between what you describe and this year's team is Minchey. And while I'm on the Minchey train too, I don't want to rely on a true freshman to walk in and be our QB (especially one who, I'd note, missed much of his senior year of HS with an injury).
No chance
Driskell talked about this the other day and said there's no shot that there are 6 scholarship QB's on the roster next year.
