2022 QB Steve Angeli Enjoys "Awesome" Weekend At Notre Dame

Steve Angeli‍ showed up for his official visit to South Bend this weekend ready to recruit, but the 2022 Notre Dame quarterback commit got a sneak peek of his future home as well.

“It was awesome,” the New Jersey native said of the trip. “It was great. My family loved it. I absolutely loved it. Meeting all the commits and the group of recruits we had and the players and then everything they did for us. It was an awesome weekend.”

The Bergen Catholic standout was hosted by Irish quarterback Drew Pyne.

“I was with Drew for a lot of the time,” Angeli said. “I was also with Tyler Buchner a lot. I was with Mike Mayer and a couple other guys.

“It was awesome. Those guys were great. They're great leaders, obviously great teammates and they showed me and the commits and the recruits and especially my family a great time. It was really a great weekend with them.”

Angeli also enjoyed his meetings with head coach Brian Kelly and offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach Tommy Rees.

“From the opening speech Coach Kelly gave to everybody, we were hooked from there,” he said. “He said a lot of great stuff that I truly believe in and how I've been raised from my mother and my dad and how my brothers have been raised.

“Everything he said was exactly what I believe in and what I strongly feel is right. Being able to hear that for him just reinforced my decision. It was awesome.”

He called his family’s meeting with Rees “awesome as well.”

“We talked a good amount about a lot of the mental qualities of quarterbacks and the off-field stuff,” said Angeli. “Obviously, everybody in that room is going to be gifted physically and be able to do all the things physically, but the mental part of the game is what's going to set others apart.

“Meeting with him and having my family there was really awesome. We covered a lot and got to continue to build that relationship.”

But as the quarterback of the Irish’s 2022 class, Angeli has been a deputy recruiting coordinator of sorts for months now and certainly embraced that role this weekend. He felt as if the Irish helped themselves with just about everybody on campus.

“Pretty much all of them on the offensive side,” he said specifically. “Aamil Wagner‍, Nicholas Singleton‍, Nicholas Anderson‍, Elic Ayomanor‍, Carson Hinzman‍, Joe Brunner‍, all those guys I felt like we made a lot of good progress.

“They were a great group of guys along with the commits. We had a great time. They're definitely dudes that I'm going to continue to recruit and stay on. They're really considering Notre Dame and obviously I'd love to add them to this class and be teammates with them. They're great guys. Their families were amazing. It was just such a special group and I really enjoyed the time with them.”

And Angeli believed Notre Dame helped itself with his Bergen Catholic teammate, cornerback Jayden Bellamy‍ as well.

“Jayden loved it. Jayden really liked it a lot. I felt that he really got the sense of the Notre Dame family as well as the recruits. Pretty much everybody got the sense of the brotherhood and the Notre Dame family that they had to offer. I know Jayden's parents, talking to his mom, she really enjoyed it as well. Notre Dame did a really good job with him this weekend. I thought they made really big steps in his recruitment as well.”