For the first offseason in what seems like forever, Notre Dame has no semblance of a quarterback controversy. That can always change via some combination of starter Ian Book regressing and sophomore Phil Jurkovec progressing, but it would necessitate both.
It really has not been forever, let it be noted. Just two years ago, Brandon Wimbush was clearly the Irish starter after DeShone Kizer declared for the NFL. Then again, the phrase used above was “quarterback controversy,” and one certainly, yet unnecessarily, arose around Kizer’s draft readiness or lack thereof. Beyond that idiocy and then moving past all things pertaining to Kizer and Malik Zaire, Notre Dame had an unquestioned starter heading into the 2014 season with Everett Golson returning from an academic suspension.