Wimbush hopes to fend off other Notre Dame QBs
For the Notre Dame football fan base, an early glimpse of heralded freshman quarterback Phil Jurkovec can’t come quickly enough.
The Pennsylvania high school star most likely won’t see action in the challenging season-opener against Michigan (Sept. 1 in South Bend), but a week later against Ball State his taking the field is almost a guarantee to occur.
The recently passed NCAA rule that allows players to compete in four games yet still maintain a redshirt season will almost assure that Jurkovec is on the field for that entire allotment; however, it probably won’t be more than that because Notre Dame coaches are fully expecting veterans Brandon Wimbush and/or Ian Book to be the primary quarterbacks throughout the fall.
— Will the next great Big 12 quarterback please stand up?
For the first time in quite some time, there is a lack of elite signal callers in the college football league that has helped build its offensive repu- tation on the arms of stars like Vince Young, Sam Bradford, Robert Griffin III, Colt McCoy and Jason White.
Don’t forget recent throwers like Oklahoma State’s Mason Rudolph and Baker Mayfield, who led Oklahoma to within one good half of winning a national championship in his Heisman Trophy campaign last season.
“There have been some great quarterbacks come through the Big 12,” said TCU sophomore quarterback Shawn Robinson. “That’s one of the primary reasons I’m here today. I’m trying to be one of them eventually.”
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