Marcus Freeman named Dick Corbett Head Football Coach

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So glad this man is our head coach. The way he carries himself, his enthusiasm, the way recruits and player are drawn to him speak volumes. There isn't another coach in the country I'd rather see on our sideline. He has brought a energy back to the program that I haven't seen anyone else be able to do like he has. Cannot wait to see him holding a national championship trophy in the near future
 
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FU BK said:
So glad this man is our head coach. The way he carries himself, his enthusiasm, the way recruits and player are drawn to him speak volumes. There isn't another coach in the country I'd rather see on our sideline. He has brought an energy back to the program that I haven't seen anyone else be able to do like he has. Cannot wait to see him holding a national championship trophy in the near future
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To lead it, and be able to effectively sell it to other coaches, players, recruits, you have to get it. It’s bigger than the individual, and you have to really love it. Been a while since we had someone who had the coaching chops and understood ND. It’s a beautiful time.
 
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The major difference is that people outside of ND (which is rare because you typically either love or hate ND) are officially taking notice of how fun this program is under MFMF. With BK, we had to constantly defend or make excuses for the program. People saw the screaming and yelling from early on in his tenure, and as much as BK 2.0/3.0 tried to rebrand that image, nobody outside of this program took notice or recognized it, and looking back, it felt fake. I think his LSU antics show that it was definitely a facade.
 
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Some Irish Bloke said:
The major difference is that people outside of ND (which is rare because you typically either love or hate ND) are officially taking notice of how fun this program is under MFMF. With BK, we had to constantly defend or make excuses for the program. People saw the screaming and yelling from early on in his tenure, and as much as BK 2.0/3.0 tried to rebrand that image, nobody outside of this program took notice or recognized it, and looking back, it felt fake. I think his LSU antics show that it was definitely a facade.
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Notre Dame needs to be "cool" about once every 10-20 years to maintain it's place in the sport. MF has been doing that.
 
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GrangerIrish24 said:
My wife got me this for my birthday. Found out my sister-in-law has a connection. She got Marcus to sign this program from the year I was born.
One step closer to our inevitable friendship.
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I suffered the tragedy of growing up in the Faust era but delighted in the joy of growing up in the Allen Pinkett era. He’s ND’s most recent offensive skill position superstar who doesn’t have career highlights posted anywhere on the net, which is a damn shame because he’s the closest thing ND’s ever had to a Barry Sanders.

As a freshman in 1982, he led ND to an upset of #1 Pitt. As a sophomore, he was named first team All-American by the Sporting News after running for 1,394 yards, leading the team in receptions, and setting a school TD record with 18. After that, he had nagging injuries (in an era where splitting carries was sacrilege and the forward pass was a trick play) but still ran for 1,100+ yards in each of his final two years, tying his TD record as a junior and finishing 8th in Heisman voting as a senior. He shattered ND’s all-time records for career rushing yards, rushing TDs, and total TDs, and he still holds the latter two records.

Though ND sucked in the Faust years, the talent was outstanding. Studs were buried on the depth chart behind Pinkett, including Greg Bell, who was two years Pinkett’s senior. Bell was a well-built track star who was a first round NFL pick despite running for a combined 292 yards over his final two seasons at ND. He only had four remotely healthy pro seasons due to turf-related injuries and medical malpractice, but he made the Pro Bowl as a rookie and led the NFL in rushing TDs in consecutive seasons later in his career, which nobody had done previously without landing in the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, this caused him to hold out for a new contract, which led to him getting traded to the Raiders, who then had the most loaded backfield in NFL history, headlined by Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen. CFB HOFer Napolean McCallum was 7th on that team in rushing. Even in the middle of Bell’s four-year gimpy era, he was the featured player in a trade package for Eric Dickerson.

The greatest ND player I ever saw was Tim Brown (basically Ismail with better size and far better WR skills), but he was a relative nobody his first couple years, playing in Pinkett’s shadow.

Tony Furjanic didn’t tackle ballcarriers so much as he manhandled them.

Mike Larkin had injury problems but was probably ND’s first real athlete at LB. His younger, skinnier brothers included baseball HOFer Barry Larkin, fellow Cincinnati Red Stephen Larkin, and college basketball All-American Byron Larkin, who is the all-time leading scorer for Xavier. Ken Griffey Sr., whose sons attended Cincinnati Moeller with the Larkins, once told Deion Sanders he might not be the best DB on the Reds, and Barry might not be the best DB in his own family. (Barry was more sought after as a QB, while Byron was a Parade All-American DB. Moeller leads all high schools in all-time All-American football players, including RB/DB Hiawatha Francisco, the first recruit I was told to get excited about but who wound up riding the pine behind Pinkett (he would have 15 knee surgeries), and his little brother D’Juan, who played DB/RB sparingly at ND before being drafted by the Cowboys and falling victim to knee injuries himself. In 1988 preseason camp, Holtz told reporters “(Rocket) Ismail thinks he's fast, and (Ricky) Watters thinks he's fast, and (Tony) Brooks thinks he's fast, but D'Juan Francisco knows he's fast.”

Tim Scannell was an All-American OG who was a GA on that 1988 championship team.
 
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SportsingHard said:
I suffered the tragedy of growing up in the Faust era but delighted in the joy of growing up in the Allen Pinkett era. He’s ND’s most recent offensive skill position superstar who doesn’t have career highlights posted anywhere on the internet, which is a damn shame because he’s the closest thing ND’s ever had to a Barry Sanders.

As a freshman in 1982, he led ND to an upset of #1 Pitt. As a sophomore, he was named first team All-American by the Sporting News after running for 1,394 yards, leading the team in receptions, and setting a school TD record with 18. After that, he had nagging injuries (in an era where splitting carries was sacrilege) but still ran for 1,100+ yards in each of his final two years, tying his TD record as a junior and finishing 8th in Heisman voting as a senior. He shattered ND’s all-time records for career rushing yards, rushing TDs, and total TDs, and he still holds the latter two records.

Though ND sucked in the Faust years, the talent was outstanding. Studs were buried on the depth chart behind Pinkett, including Greg Bell, who was two years Pinkett’s senior. Bell was a well-built track star who was a first round NFL pick despite running for a combined 292 yards over his final two seasons at ND. He only had four remotely healthy pro seasons due to turf-related injuries and medical malpractice, but he made the Pro Bowl as a rookie and led the NFL in rushing TDs in consecutive seasons later in his career, which nobody had done previously without landing in the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, this caused him to hold out for a new contract, which led to him getting traded to the Raiders, who then had the most loaded backfield in NFL history, headlined by Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen. CFB HOFer Napolean McCallum was 7th on that team in rushing. Even in the middle of Bell’s four-year gimpy era, he was the featured player in a trade package for Eric Dickerson.

The greatest ND player I ever saw was Tim Brown (basically Ismail with better size and far better WR skills), but he was a relative nobody his first couple years, playing in Pinkett’s shadow.

Tony Furjanic didn’t tackle ballcarriers so much as he manhandled them.

Mike Larkin had injury problems but was probably ND’s first real athlete at LB. His younger, skinnier brothers included baseball HOFer Barry Larkin, fellow Cincinnati Red Stephen Larkin, and college basketball All-American Byron Larkin, who is the all-time leading scorer for Xavier. Ken Griffey Sr., whose sons attended Cincinnati Moeller with the Larkins, once told Deion Sanders he might not be the best DB on the Reds, and Barry might not be the best DB in his own family. (Barry was more sought after as a QB, while Byron was a Parade All-American DB. Moeller leads all high schools in all-time All-American football players, including RB/DB Hiawatha Francisco, the first recruit I was told to get excited about but who wound up riding the pine behind Pinkett (he would have 15 knee surgeries), and his little brother D’Juan, who played DB/RB sparingly at ND before being drafted by the Cowboys and falling victim to knee injuries himself. In 1988 preseason camp, Holtz told reporters “(Rocket) Ismail thinks he's fast, and (Ricky) Watters thinks he's fast, and (Tony) Brooks thinks he's fast, but D'Juan Francisco knows he's fast.”

Tim Scannell was an All-American OG who was a GA on that 1988 championship team.
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This is great. I did have to look up info on Larkin.
 
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SportsingHard said:
I suffered the tragedy of growing up in the Faust era but delighted in the joy of growing up in the Allen Pinkett era. He’s ND’s most recent offensive skill position superstar who doesn’t have career highlights posted anywhere on the net, which is a damn shame because he’s the closest thing ND’s ever had to a Barry Sanders.

As a freshman in 1982, he led ND to an upset of #1 Pitt. As a sophomore, he was named first team All-American by the Sporting News after running for 1,394 yards, leading the team in receptions, and setting a school TD record with 18. After that, he had nagging injuries (in an era where splitting carries was sacrilege and the forward pass was a trick play) but still ran for 1,100+ yards in each of his final two years, tying his TD record as a junior and finishing 8th in Heisman voting as a senior. He shattered ND’s all-time records for career rushing yards, rushing TDs, and total TDs, and he still holds the latter two records.

Though ND sucked in the Faust years, the talent was outstanding. Studs were buried on the depth chart behind Pinkett, including Greg Bell, who was two years Pinkett’s senior. Bell was a well-built track star who was a first round NFL pick despite running for a combined 292 yards over his final two seasons at ND. He only had four remotely healthy pro seasons due to turf-related injuries and medical malpractice, but he made the Pro Bowl as a rookie and led the NFL in rushing TDs in consecutive seasons later in his career, which nobody had done previously without landing in the Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, this caused him to hold out for a new contract, which led to him getting traded to the Raiders, who then had the most loaded backfield in NFL history, headlined by Bo Jackson and Marcus Allen. CFB HOFer Napolean McCallum was 7th on that team in rushing. Even in the middle of Bell’s four-year gimpy era, he was the featured player in a trade package for Eric Dickerson.

The greatest ND player I ever saw was Tim Brown (basically Ismail with better size and far better WR skills), but he was a relative nobody his first couple years, playing in Pinkett’s shadow.

Tony Furjanic didn’t tackle ballcarriers so much as he manhandled them.

Mike Larkin had injury problems but was probably ND’s first real athlete at LB. His younger, skinnier brothers included baseball HOFer Barry Larkin, fellow Cincinnati Red Stephen Larkin, and college basketball All-American Byron Larkin, who is the all-time leading scorer for Xavier. Ken Griffey Sr., whose sons attended Cincinnati Moeller with the Larkins, once told Deion Sanders he might not be the best DB on the Reds, and Barry might not be the best DB in his own family. (Barry was more sought after as a QB, while Byron was a Parade All-American DB. Moeller leads all high schools in all-time All-American football players, including RB/DB Hiawatha Francisco, the first recruit I was told to get excited about but who wound up riding the pine behind Pinkett (he would have 15 knee surgeries), and his little brother D’Juan, who played DB/RB sparingly at ND before being drafted by the Cowboys and falling victim to knee injuries himself. In 1988 preseason camp, Holtz told reporters “(Rocket) Ismail thinks he's fast, and (Ricky) Watters thinks he's fast, and (Tony) Brooks thinks he's fast, but D'Juan Francisco knows he's fast.”

Tim Scannell was an All-American OG who was a GA on that 1988 championship team.
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Pinkett, Pinkett, Pinkett, Punt.

Used to pile up pillows on the bed and dive over like a Pinkett TD.
 
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