I haven't been able to figure out what ND's doing in QB recruiting, in general, for a long time now. Making a no-brainer, of course you do that call like accepting Carr's verbal even threw me off. I figured they were just going to keep waiting until Dante went to Oregon to do anything in 2023 or 2024.
All they've done is land consistent 4-5 star QBs over the past decade; whose fault do you think it is that that hardly any of them panned out? (hint, he now fakes a southern accent and does cringy videos grinding on his recruits).
Ignoring Crist, Keil, Golson, Zaire etc: for the sake of time on an already lengthy post, we can start with Wimbush.
Highly rated, top 50 player. Never got comfortable throwing the ball in this system. Sign (Almost) 5 star Phil, who knew he wouldn't want to compete for a job (even though he would've had two full seasons regardless of said competition) with a guy who ascended to the all-time winningest QB in program history, Ian Book?
Then we sign a consensus five star QB in Tyler Buchner, who didn't get to play his senior season, coupled with BK doing BK things and messing with the kid's mechanics, and his rating drops to a 97 after a camp circuit. Buchner is only a RS Freshman, and flashed at times. If you are so concerned about TB12, go look at Clausen and Quinn's freshman seasons and let me know who had the worst campaigns of the three. I think the staff did the right thing having a veteran like Coan and picking their spots with Buchner. If you were expecting him to be Johnny Manziel at 18 years old, we need to have a conversation about the unrealistic expectations some posters have.
Oh, and we recently landed a consensus five star in Carr ('23 or '24, to be determined).
QB recruiting has been just fine. Development? Not so much. However, Rees had his hands all over Book, so take that for what it's worth. People saying we NEED a five star every year (because real life is a video game, after all, and we can do it on NCAA 14!), again...I think we need to have a conversation about realistic expectations.
Sorry gentlemen, back on track. I've got a killer homemade sloppy joe recipe if anyone is interested.