2024 QB Anthony Rezac Explains Notre Dame Choice

Last week was an eventful one for Anthony Rezac‍ as the 2024 Nebraska quarterback helped Westside High School to a state championship, was named the state’s Mr. Football and announced his commitment to Notre Dame.

Of course, those events were actually culminations of efforts that started long before.

In fact, Rezac informed the Irish he was accepting their offer to join the program as a preferred walk-on during a trip to South Bend for the USC game last month, but waited until after his senior season was complete to announce it publicly.   

“I told Coach (Marcus) Freeman first,” Rezac explained. “I had a meeting with him at the end and I let him know, 'I want to commit.' He stood up, dapped me up, gave me a hug, and then went out and told Coach (Chad) Bowden, Coach Gino (Giudugli), Coach (Gerad) Parker and everyone else. It was a cool experience.

“They were definitely pretty excited. They were pumped up. I think getting me and Teddy both was pretty cool.”

Rezac is joining his twin brother, Teddy, who committed to Notre Dame as a linebacker last spring.

“It's definitely a pretty cool feeling,” Anthony said of continuing to play with his brother at the next level. 

“We both knew how hard it was to go Division-I, so going to the same school wasn't necessarily always in the plan, but working out like that, it's pretty cool and I'm grateful for it.”

But Anthony had to come to his own decision to choose Notre Dame over scholarship offers from other Division-I programs.

“It's got to be the academics and athletics,” he said. “The combo of those two is just unbeatable.

“It was definitely a hard process narrowing it down because I built a lot of great relationships with a lot of great coaches. Figuring that out and navigating through that experience was definitely difficult, but I think I'm better from it, so it was a really good process.”

It will certainly make Fall planning smoother for Rezac’s parents over the next four years.

“It'll definitely make it easier on them being able to just go to South Bend on Saturdays and trying to figure out how to work on the schedule,” he said. “They were both pretty happy when I told them.”

Rezac is excited to help the program wherever he can. 

“They expect me to just work my butt off every single day, carve out a role however I can, whether it's at the beginning, just helping out, being scrappy during practice, pushing dudes, actually getting into the game and helping,” he said. “However it is. However I can help the team is what I want to do.

“I think what I'll be able to bring is definitely the athleticism that I have; being able to extend plays and make plays when something might've gone wrong or broken. Then, just being a competitor and wanting to win. I'm not going to give up. If something's bad, always seeing the glass as half-full. I'm not a half-empty kind of guy.”

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