Next step on road back from injuries takes Notre Dame guard Robby Carmody to transfer portal
Robby Carmody did not end his basketball career after three serious and season-ending injuries. His goal after each was to return to action, which he did for a few fleeting moments for Notre Dame this season and on 2022 Senior Day. Mission accomplished. But apparently not finished.
Carmody intends to play a sixth season of college basketball. If he turns a few cameo appearances in 2022-23 into more consistent minutes in 2023-24, though, it will likely be somewhere else.
Carmody, a 6-foot-4 grad student guard, entered the transfer portal Monday, BlueandGold.com has confirmed. He was the first Notre Dame player to enter the portal since the end of the season and since Mike Brey stepped aside as head coach following the final game. Freshman guard JJ Starling and freshman forward Dom Campbell followed him later Monday morning.
A career that once looked promising on the court became a story of perseverance just to return to it. Carmody’s freshman season ended after nine games due to a torn labrum in his left shoulder. He tore his ACL in the seventh game of the next season. He missed all of 2020-21 with a fractured kneecap suffered in the preseason. He did not step on the floor again until a March 5, 2022 win over Pittsburgh, when Brey put him in for the final 6 seconds with his fellow seniors.
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One wondered if that would be it for him. Would three straight major injuries allow him to do anything more? The answer was yes. Carmody returned for a fifth season in 2022-23 and played in six games. He totaled 19 minutes and even saw some first-half action. He grabbed 2 rebounds and scored 1 point.
That was success for Carmody after the string of injuries. It was, though, still the opposite of where his career once looked like it would go.
Carmody arrived at Notre Dame from Mars Area (Pa.) High School in 2018 as a top-100 recruit and the reigning Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year. He became the first Irish true freshman to start a season opener since Torin Francis in 2002. He started two of the nine games he played in 2018-19, averaging 3.7 points in 10 minutes per game. He returned from the shoulder injury and averaged 5.4 points and 1.6 rebounds in seven games as a sophomore. He played seven games the last two seasons.
