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Marcus Freeman's Remarkable 3-Year Journey at Notre Dame
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1/10/2025
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What do you think of this guy, Marcus Freeman, what he's accomplished in three years in South Bend?
00:05
I mean, he's done a great job. You listen to him on the side, you watch him on the sideline.
00:10
It's almost like he's young enough where he's carefree, he's relaxed.
00:14
I remember when I was at Auburn, 36-year-old head coach, you don't even know all the bad things that can happen.
00:20
You just get, you're motivated. I think he's been a great inspiration to this team.
00:24
I think he, they feed off of him. There's a great relationship.
00:29
I think it's a special, I think this team right here, Notre Dame, I was never picking them in the finals.
00:34
The two teams playing tonight were two of my top four, but Notre Dame has something special.
00:39
They got a quarterback that has it. I'm not, my dad used to say, I don't know what it is about him, but he's got it.
00:45
I think their quarterback has it. He make the right play at the right time to give them something.
00:50
Then their quarter, their team has great chemistry this year.
00:53
Don't know how the other two teams tonight are going to be the ones with the most talent.
00:57
But Notre Dame now has got themselves in a position where I say, you know what?
01:00
This team finds a way to win.
01:03
Coach, you're a guy that's been in a million big games.
01:08
What's it like having that stress in your life that they put you under, the media, the fans,
01:18
everything that piles on a guy through the years?
01:22
How did you deal with the stress of it all?
01:25
Because I would have keeled over.
01:26
I would have been tucked in a ball like I was in my mother's womb with a bottle of scotch.
01:33
How did you deal with it?
01:34
Nothing worse than a Saturday night game.
01:36
You're in that hotel room all day.
01:38
That's where the distress comes.
01:41
Now, once the ball's kicked off, you're working too hard to have any of it.
01:45
And there's no stress during the game.
01:46
It's just there's too much to do.
01:48
And of course, I call plays and some of these guys are involved with their scheme.
01:52
It's all before the game and preparation of the game.
01:55
And you know who the pressure's on right now?
01:57
Ron Day.
01:58
At Ohio State, there's only two goals.
02:01
You win the conference, you beat Michigan, or you win the national championship.
02:05
He's like 0-4 right now versus Michigan.
02:07
And there shouldn't be.
02:08
I'm not sure it's legitimate, but they've been riding him pretty hard.
02:12
And he needs a win probably more than anybody out there just because of how much they've lost
02:16
to Michigan the last four weeks, the fourth season.
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