Who Will Be the Third String QB Next Season?

It’s a safe bet that, barring any unforeseen turn of events, Jimmy Clausen will be the No. 1 quarterback for the Fighting Irish. He came on strong at the end of last year, highlighted by an awesome bowl game win in Hawaii. Dayne Crist, a hot recruit a year ago, will be his understudy.  But who will be third on the Notre Dame quarterback depth chart? A reporter asked head coach Charlie Weis about this the other day, and Weis came with this, which we took from the Official Notre Dame transcript of the press conference:

“Well, first of all, I’d go to (Nate) Montana on just the regular things here, first of all. But if we were going to run an expanded version of our offense, it would be John Goodman.

If we were going to be an isolated version of the offense, it would probably, because E.J. Banks’s in italics right now, it would probably be Danny McCarthy, to tell you the truth.

If I was going to take a defensive guy and give him some offense, it would not be the whole offense, so I want to let Goodman have an opportunity to compete at wide receiver because I think he can do that. Then later in the spring we’ll worry about sprinkling in those guys and getting them a little time. But it would defend on who it is to how much of the package we can do that in.”

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