He was giving Rick Mirer legit competition for the starting job after Tony Rice graduated. His collarbone was broken in the Blue-Gold game and he never got another chance at the job.

He had a pretty good senior season as QB at West Virginia, including an upset of the Miami Hurricanes with a last minute TD pass. Played in the CFL for a bit I think.

Football League over 3 seasons.

He did play briefly in the CFL and then in the WLAF for a while. I remember seeing an interview with a European fan who was asked why he liked the Barcelona Dragons, and he responded that he liked them because of Tony Rice and Notre Dame.

into a factoid about Jake Kelchner?

I always followed Kelchner and Powlus closer than most as they grew up in the town next to mine.

They just take up a spot that an “athlete” needs

LoVecchio(?!), Keil, Crist, the pre-med fellow, Golson, etc. have not done so well after transferring. It’s a much longer list...

last point up. Jalen Hurts did pretty darn well for himself too, in my opinion.

Also, one thing that might make a difference here for Phil Jurkovec is he has had less time for Kelly to mess him up compared to the others.

But I do agree that 1 year, particularly as wonky as this one has no doubt been with spring and fall, probably isn't enough time to get PJ looking like Burrows out there.

I suspect he'll look great against ND on some plays, and terrible on most others. I hope long term though he'll be good just for his own sake.