ESPN reported early Sunday that Zach Frazer has been given permission to seek a transfer from Notre Dame after he ended the Spring as the odd man out in Notre Dame’s quarterback race.
Notre Dame quarterback Zach Frazer has been granted permission to seek a transfer and intends to leave the school, according to two people familiar with his plans.
Frazer plans to visit up to five schools as early as this week. Among the schools with mutual interest are Rutgers, UConn, Miami, Louisville and East Carolina.
Several MAC programs have also inquired about the strong-armed, 6-foot-5, 226 pound redshirt freshman.
Eric Hansen, however, reported in the South Bend Tribune Sunday that Frazer has not yet been given release from his scholarship and that he is not 100% sure he is transferring.
Zach Frazer has not asked for or been granted his release at this point. What the ND athletic department has granted the QB is permission to contact other schools and vice versa.
“Notre Dame has been working very well with us,” David Frazer said. “Charlie Weis has been very cooperative and, I believe, is looking out for the best interests of Zach. And Charlie has even said, he’s not doing anything to push Zach out the door. If Zach wants to stay he’d love to have him.”
frank,
1. we all know that eric is correct and that, as usual, the espn( of the good, the bad, and the espn) is knowingly disseminating false information about notre dame to drive away recruits.
2. while quite a few athletes have requested transfers from usc and transferred from usc, the school that certain people at espn.com illegally promote with disney corporate funds and with false information, the espn does not report those transfers and the hell that pete carroll and his staff put them through.
3. we personnally hope that zach remembers how deep joe montana was buried on the depth chart and stays at notre dame. zach certainly has the ability and he knows his teammates. the cut this may is, by no means, the cut for this season or coming seasons, as history demonstrates.
with so many new players on this nd team, even though no one wants any injuries or other problems,they are statistically much more likely to happen than in other seasons. just ask ron powlus and arnaz battle and carlyle holiday.
4. zach has seen the stats on which the may cut was based. he certainly knows where he needs to improve and there is no better place to improve those stats than at notre dame.
zach knows, charlie knows, and we know that zach does not lack the raw ability. he simply needs to improve certain areas of his game.
if he stays and does that, he has just as much of a chance to come off the bench at nd, as joe montana did, and achieve greatness as he does if he transfers to a school where he knows no one.
things did not work out well for the last 2 nd qbs who transferred to indiana and virginia.
5. if zach does transfer, louisville would seem the best shot for playing time with brohm graduating next year. however, zach might well end up never playing there either, as happened with the nd wr who transferred to louisville a few years ago for entirely different reasons- academic inadequacies.
6. whatever zach decides to do, we will always be rooting for him and praying for him. having zach leave would be a great loss for the nd community.
we all remember how zach persevered through his high school senior year when the surrounding cast from his dynamite junior year graduated and left zach looking not that great.
7. charlie and nd knew that the dropoff in stats was not zach’s fault and stuck with zach, when the espn and other jerks panned zach.
8. we know that charlie sincerely would love to have zach stay at nd as would the nd community. we also understand that zach needs to choose his own path. we wish him well whatever he decides to do and hope that he stays at nd. zach did not choose nd just for football, but for all the other reasons that are still there, but are not at other schools.
9. any football career can be ended with an injury on any single play- in a game or in practice or off the field. the other things, including honesty and integrity, that come with graduating from nd and being a part of that worldwide community will always be there for a lifetime.
erin go braugh,
robert t. gilleran