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Notre Dame's unique QB recruitment strategy
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6/28/2025
Ryan Roberts discusses how Notre Dame's quarterback coach Gino Guidugli and offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock are using a unique tactic for recruiting QB's for the Fighting Irish
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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish are attempting a very unique quarterback recruiting strategy
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in the 2027 class.
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Let's talk about what makes it so unique, slightly risky, and talk about the players
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that you need to know early on.
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Ryan Roberts from A to Z Sports, breaking down everything Notre Dame football.
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Folks, want to talk a little recruiting strategy in the 2027 class for the Notre Dame Fighting
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Irish quarterback position, the most important position, not only in the game of football,
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but arguably in all of sports.
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And we've known that Notre Dame has done a really good job recruiting the quarterback
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position over the last few years.
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You talk about Kenny Minchie, CJ Carr, Noah Grubbs, Blake Heberts was obviously in the
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2025 class.
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So Notre Dame has done a really good job at that position, signal callers, particularly
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the last couple of years.
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They are trying, though, a slightly unorthodox and unique strategy in the 2027 class.
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So before this past weekend, Notre Dame had not offered a single quarterback in the 2027
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recruiting class.
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Then they were the only team.
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There was no power for team on in any of those four major conferences that had not offered
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a single quarterback in the 2027 class.
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Notre Dame was being very selective, a little bit picky, totally fine with that.
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And they had a wide and long search.
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This was a huge group effort, obviously, from offensive coordinator, Mike Denrock, quarterback,
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coach, Gino Gadulli.
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They were traveling all over the place, seeing these players throw, getting them on campus,
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talking to everyone about these quarterbacks.
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Now, this process, while selective, I think does have some positives to it.
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One, you're really finding out who are the players that you really want in this class.
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And after you've been recruiting the quarterback position so well, I understand being a little
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bit picky.
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I like that aspect of it.
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The other side, too, is that the fact that you have been recruiting so well, you don't
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really necessarily need to have a number one guy in this class and have any sort of desperation.
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You can take a gamble or two in this class, and you could potentially be very strategic
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with who you want to bring into that room.
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The negatives, or I should say maybe the potential risks involved, though, is that the fact that
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you are, even though you've been talking to these guys behind the scenes, recruiting them
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for a while, until they get that offer, things don't get quite real, right?
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Like, they're not a full option for you until they are officially offered by the team.
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And that means that you have less time from offer to potential commitments.
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Will that hurt them?
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Will it not?
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And then you also have to talk about the fact you're keeping a smaller quarterback board
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here, if you have to create a new board, add to the board, create more options, potentially,
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those players now know the next wave that they were not the first options, and they may
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have been players that you've been recruiting for a little bit of a while.
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So will that hurt you and your presence with those players long term?
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Those are the questions I have.
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Now, that being said, here are the two quarterbacks that have been offered so far, and we found
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about this over the last week.
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One is a very intriguing player out of the state of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana,
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Evangel Christian Academy quarterback, Peyton Houston.
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Now, some people are going to look at his profile and say, he's 5'11", 196 pounds.
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We don't want to go back that way, right?
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Like, we don't want any more Ian Books.
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We don't want any more Drew Pines.
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We don't want these undersized quarterbacks that maybe lack some physical traits in some
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capacity.
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That's not Peyton Houston.
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That's why I could not care less about how tall he is.
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He has one of the stronger arms that you're going to find in the 2027 recruiting class.
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This kid has arm talent for days.
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Now, an interesting one, because there was just a crystal ball put in on the rival network
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for him to land with Oklahoma.
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Now, some people I've talked to have said that's probably a little bit too early, right?
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Like, the process is still going to play out.
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He was on record at the rival's five-star camp that he wants to commit sometime in the
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middle of his junior season.
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So we're several months off from him making a decision.
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As of today, though, Notre Dame is not in that upper echelon of group.
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Now, they have several months to make up that ground.
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Maybe you get him on campus.
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Maybe CJ Carr, Kenny Minchie are airing the ball out all over the place.
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And potentially Peyton Houston might want to come and be a part of that.
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But right now, he's a little bit of a wait-and-see type of player.
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The other guy who I think Notre Dame is in a much better spot with today is Kennesaw,
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Georgia, North Cobb quarterback, Teddy Girard.
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Now, Teddy Girard is much more the prototype, 6'3", 200 pounds, good frame.
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He'll be 6'3", 215, 220 before too long.
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This kid has good pocket presence to him.
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It's a really accurate thrower.
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And I really do love the overall just mechanics and feel as a passer.
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And he has good enough athleticism.
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He's not an athlete like Peyton Houston, where he's going to run for 600 plus yards like
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Peyton Houston did as a sophomore in high school.
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But this is an extender, a guy that can throw in the run.
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I like a lot of what I've seen from Girard.
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He was actually at that quarterback event, the five-star for rivals, with Peyton Houston.
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And Girard was the one that won MVP, which I found very interesting.
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Now, this offseason, he's been blown up.
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He's got Georgia.
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He's got Ohio State.
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He's got Michigan.
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A source has told me that right now, he thinks that there's a top group, potentially
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with Notre Dame in it, of Notre Dame, Ohio State, and Georgia.
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Now, that's very interesting because, one, Georgia's the home state team.
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We'll see what happens there.
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Ohio State, though, has a quarterback commit in the 2027 class, and Brady Edmonds, a player
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that has been on campus at Notre Dame, actually, in the past as well.
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Now, that being said, we've seen a couple 2027 quarterback offers for Ohio State going
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out.
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So, is that some unsettlement with maybe if Brady Edmonds is going to end up in the class
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long-term?
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Does Ohio State want to continue to look at options if they choose that there is a better
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one out there?
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I don't know what that 100% means.
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But all I know is that Notre Dame is trending in a good direction with Teddy Gerrard.
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Now, if Payne Houston does go off the board and it becomes just Gerrard on the board, you
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probably do want to, you know, open that up a little bit, maybe get another guy or two
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potentially on the quarterback target board.
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But overall, I'm very happy with the two players that are on the board.
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But I want to hear from you guys.
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If you've had the chance to watch some huddle highlights, watch the Nike camp, whatever
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it is, Gerrard Houston.
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Put some comments in the chat.
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Want to hear in the comment section just your early thoughts on the players.
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If there's one that you prefer as of now, if there isn't a player that hasn't been offered
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yet out of those two, is there a player that you do want Notre Dame to offer at some point?
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Now, while you're doing that, make sure you hit that like button and subscribe on your
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way out.
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And as always, go Irish.
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