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Notre Dame's Coaching Dilemma: Freeman's Uncertain Future
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9/11/2024
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I know I'm certainly interested in some Notre Dame coaching conversations, because for me,
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Notre Dame in week two had a result that very likely seals Marcus Freeman's fate.
00:16
A loss as a 28.5 point favorite at home to a Mac football team in Northern Illinois sees
00:24
the fifth ranked Notre Dame fighting Irish fall to one and one.
00:31
And there are a few names who I think could be interesting to take over for Marcus Freeman.
00:37
Now firstly, let me just say in terms of, could I be overreacting?
00:43
Could Marcus Freeman keep this job?
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Well, Marcus Freeman would very likely need to win at least 10 games this year to keep
00:55
that job.
00:58
If he loses to Purdue next week, or Miami of Ohio the following week, I think he's done
01:05
right there.
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And they let offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock coach the rest of the season.
01:12
So he's got two more games.
01:15
If he wins those, then he probably gets the rest of the season.
01:25
Probably though, no guarantees.
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They still then have to host Louisville, who they lost to last year.
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Then they would hit their bye week.
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If they lose to Louisville at home, who is currently ranked inside the top 20 and has
01:43
a bye week and then home against Georgia Tech before playing Notre Dame, meaning Louisville
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should very likely be one of the 15 or so best teams probably by the rankings when that
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game shows up.
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But is that game going to potentially put Marcus Freeman on the hot seat?
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One of these games will.
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And again, for Marcus Freeman, the A&M win, the USC win, the Clemson win, they get canceled
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out when you lose to Northern Illinois, Marshall, Stanford, it just does.
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It's embarrassing.
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It's kind of funny, but Notre Dame would have been much better off if you flipped the results
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of their first two games.
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As good of a win as that was at Texas A&M, closing as an underdog of a field goal, right?
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Notre Dame could have lost that game ugly.
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They could have scored 13 points the way A&M did.
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And if they would have showed up next week and beat Northern Illinois, we wouldn't be
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sat here being like, oof, hot seat, season over.
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But sometimes the losses outweigh the wins.
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The question then when trying to find the head coach for Notre Dame is how do you get
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a coach in this building where when you see Northern Illinois, Miami of Ohio, Stanford,
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we know those are wins.
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And a guy that you then have confidence can step up and beat big teams.
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And I think for Notre Dame, they went with an in-house elevation and Marcus Freeman.
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Maybe they were somewhat surprised by Brian Kelly leaving for LSU, weren't prepared.
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But I think Notre Dame will look for a big name hire.
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I don't think this team elevates Mike Denbrough.
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I think that this team is going to look, I don't know if Jamie Chadwell is a big enough
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name for Notre Dame, even if you think Jamie Chadwell is a great coach.
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I think Notre Dame is going to be looking for a star head coach, a name that you know,
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a name that mostly anyone knows.
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