2025 Fall Practice Thread

[FightingIrishLover7]

Love and Price both returning kickoffs??? Or is Hansen just on one

It means Love wants that Heisman lol

 

[calvegas04]

I just want all the QBs to have fun

 

[2013Irish]

This means that not a single heir apparent QB recruited by the Kelly and/or Rees regime won and kept that starting job

Rees recruited Minchey. I wasn't aware that there was a monarchical succession plan in place appointing Carr as QB for 2025. Stop listening to Sampson and concocting narratives from the spring game.

I'm frankly thrilled that we have a QB who has a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

I just want all the QBs to have fun

just like Malik and Deshone!

 

[Dale]

Surprised and definitely screams Freeman thinks he can grind out two wins with Minchey playing a certain style more than he wants to risk two losses with Carr

 

[CANONIZEFATHERSORIN]

Honestly though why don’t we just give j love the ball 30 times each against Miami and TAMU and then sit him the next 3 games

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

"All is well"
-Sea Turtle

 

[AvesEvo]

Love and Price both returning kickoffs??? Or is Hansen just on one

Seems way too risky for my liking.

 

[Rizzophil]

Surprised and definitely screams Freeman thinks he can grind out two wins with Minchey playing a certain style more than he wants to risk two losses with Carr

This

and if ND is down at half, they bring in Carr and let him sling it. Not as much pressure

better than having Minch come in at halftime and try to sling it

 

[NotKoon]

Rees recruited Minchey. I wasn't aware that there was a monarchical succession plan in place appointing Carr as QB for 2025. Stop listening to Sampson and concocting narratives from the spring game.

I'm frankly thrilled that we have a QB who has a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

Minchey was a pivot point QB after Moore fell through. He was not the "this guy is the future" recruit that Carr was. Doesn't say anything bad about him at all. Says something about Kelly and his protégé's ability to evaluate their future QB plans though

 

[SeekNDestroy]

Why am I so disappointed?

 

[Dale]

Totally reasonable given how awful he was being treated here.

Looks like merck straight up nuked his profile. Lmao

Or is now @Spartacus88 and gone incognito

Merck nuking his profile is incredible IE drama lmao.

I like the dude and am extremely grateful for his posts and insight, but he does have some strange reactions at times, lol.

Edit: I take this mostly back if he didn't really delete his profile.

*Hold your tongue Dale hold your tongue….*

 

[Dale]

I think this all is stemming from one poster on 247 and we're all just running with it

Two plus a “not a denial” from O’Malley basically

 

[irishnd31]

What am I so disappointed?

How am I so disappointed?

 

[Dale]

I also got a text a few minutes ago that confirmed this. My source was alerted of this last night.

Are we thinking like the team was told level done?

 

[NDisme]

Denbrock does have a good record with somewhat mobile QBs.

Then Noah Grubbs being in the class seems like a waste

 

[NDVirginia19]

Are we thinking like the team was told level done?

I think once the team is told, we would get way more smoke out of the beat reporter cartel

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

Honestly though why don’t we just give j love the ball 30 times each against Miami and TAMU and then sit him the next 3 games

Because we have Price and Aneyas too? We should and will run the ball a lot.

 

[arrowryan]

Dang maybe the picture of J Love playing CFB 26 with Minchey as the QB was the biggest hint of them all

 

[NDisme]

2011 he won the job and was almost instantly benched.

Well he ”won” it in 2010 technically but no one was going to challenge that

 

[NDPhilly]

Surprised and definitely screams Freeman thinks he can grind out two wins with Minchey playing a certain style more than he wants to risk two losses with Carr

Totally Agree - for all his deficiencies as a passer, Riley only turned the ball over 9 times (ints + fumbles) over 16 games last year, which allowed us to suffocate most teams with our defense and run game.

Have to wonder if we started the season differently (like a FCS team) if the choice would be different.

 

[NDVirginia19]

Dang maybe the picture of J Love playing CFB 26 with Minchey as the QB was the biggest hint of them all

That was like a month ago, if the team knew that Kenny was the guy back then, then they certainly have wasted a lot of time giving CJ 1st team reps

 

[NDpendent]

At this point it is still not clear who the starting QB will be

but what is clear is that @Zanzibar will be in the background following it all

 

[Dale]

Idk if the beat would leak it knowing they meet with Freeman tomorrow or Sunday

 

[InKellyWeTrust]

Totally Agree - for all his deficiencies as a passer, Riley only turned the ball over 9 times (ints + fumbles) over 16 games last year, which allowed us to suffocate most teams with our defense and run game.

Have to wonder if we started the season differently (like a FCS team) if the choice would be different.

This isnthe most logical take on the situation. Carr may still eventually win the job this year but the conservative plan is often the best in these big early season matchups.

 

[SoIll]

Then Noah Grubbs being in the class seems like a waste

Boom.

 

[2013Irish]

Minchey was a pivot point QB after Moore fell through. He was not the "this guy is the future" recruit that Carr was. Doesn't say anything bad about him at all. Says something about Kelly and his protégé's ability to evaluate their future QB plans though

They wouldn't take a recruit at that position if they didn't think he could compete for the starting job down the line, particularly when they took the commitment when he was as far along in his development as he was (November of his senior year). His recruitment was different than CJ's and didn't take on the same fanfare because his grandpa isn't a famous coach at a rival school. Outside of that, I don't see a big difference between the two in terms of background.

 

[Dale]

I think every single OC in the world prefers mobile to immobile I don’t really get the line of thinking here with Grubbs. It’s that mobile QBs generally correlate with not having the arm talent of less mobile QBs. It’s what is best combined. Grubbs has more arm talent than Marcel Reed for example, is it good enough is the question.

Has Carr been a gap better at throwing that is bigger than Minchey’s legs advantage? Evidently not

 

[calvegas04]

Dang maybe the picture of J Love playing CFB 26 with Minchey as the QB was the biggest hint of them all

You didn't even need to go to a practice

 

[GrangerIrish24]

Why am I so disappointed?

This is how my father starts every phone call with me.