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SOUTH BEND —Gino Guidugli, entering his third season of coaching quarterbacks for Notre Dame football, channeled Allen Iverson when pressed for reaction to some early training camp mistakes.
“It’s practice,” Guidugli said. “I don’t trip over practice.”
Those three interceptions CJ Carr threw in the opening round of his head-to-head battle with Kenny Minchey?
Practice.
Minchey’s pick over the middle into the waiting arms of Adon Shuler?
Practice.
“Sometimes in practice you have to figure out what you can and what you can’t do,” said Guidugli, a former quarterback himself. “Now, inside a quarterback competition, that’s got to be measured. But I’m always an advocate of figuring out: ‘Can I put that ball in that window? Can I make that throw vs. Cover 2?’ “
He gave another shrug.
“You’re going to have some mistakes in there,” he said, “but as long as we learn from those, we’re getting better.”
An abundance of patience
Two decades removed from a record-setting career at the University of Cincinnati, Guidugli has worked with Carr and Minchey in their understudy roles over the past two seasons.
Minchey enrolled in January of 2023, when Wake Forest graduate transfer Sam Hartman was just hitting town. Carr, the top-50 national recruit and Michigan legacy, got a head start on his transition by enrolling during Sun Bowl prep in December of 2023.
The two prodigies have come so far in that time, a polished backup like fourth-year man Steve Angeli took the hint and headed off to Syracuse as a spring transfer.
And yet, 10th-ranked Miami is right around the corner and the fifth-ranked Irish are still splitting first-team quarterback reps down the middle.
At what point, Guidugli was asked,…
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