In the videos above I was emotional.
I wasn’t thinking clearly.
I was lashing out at everyone in the wake of one of the WORST losses in Notre Dame history.
That first loss to Navy was bad.
The Charlie Weis loss to UConn felt like absolute rock bottom.
Then Notre Dame lost to Marshall, a 3-9 Stanford team, and Northern Illinois at home.
Those last three losses are all under Marcus Freeman
Now I want to say I really like Marcus Freeman.
He seems like a good dude.
A great family man.
I think he works hard.
His players seem to like him.
I would LOVE it if Marcus Freeman were my neighbor.
I am not sure I want him to be my head football coach at this time.
We are in year 3 of Freeman and things are most certainly worse than they were under Brian Kelly.
He made Notre Dame genuinely relevant again.
Solid recruiting with genuine development.
It felt like Notre Dame had a plan and they had an identity.
The produced ELITE NFL talent on the offensive line and at TE.
They really good talent at every position except for the quarterback position, but their formula worked.
That’s why they never really dropped games as big favorites under Kelly.
The only part of that identity that Freeman has seemingly retained is issues at the quarterback position.
It does feel like the biggest loss for ND is actually offensive line coach, Harry Hiestand.
Tommy Rees brought Hiestand back in 2022 and then Hiestand retired.
Yes, Notre Dame is very young upfront, but that never really mattered before.
They largely kept their identity.
Even against Northern Illinois.
I hate the fact that NIU and Miami OH are even on the schedule to begin with.
Do you feel good about beating Purdue this weekend?
The idea of beating USC on the road feels impossible at this point.
The recruiting hasn’t improved under Freeman and development certainly seems worse.
I don’t know what the answer is, but the way it’s going isn’t good enough.
I hate the transfer portal.
I don’t think you’ve got the option to really stop gap a program like Notre Dame.
They haven’t been able to recruit, keep, and develop WRs or QBs.
The O-Line isn’t the pipeline it was.
Notre Dame doesn’t have an identity under Freeman.
The defense was saved by Howard Cross, Rylie Mills, and Xavier Watts delaying their NFL careers.
I want to believe.
I want him to be the guy to take Notre Dame back to the mountaintop.
There’s just not any evidence to say that this group is on the right path.
I think Notre Dame will end up going like 9-3.
Can Freeman learn and improve?
Does the new AD want to wait to find out?
