Marcus Freeman named Dick Corbett Head Football Coach

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Why are we even talking about this?
This type of worrying, defending, processing is very casual boomer facebook comment level stuff on here
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Pate is another I’ll never listen to his show again.. all the BS he said when BK left… he’s a clown
He owned the BK stuff. He actually put a clown nose on and read old transcripts of what he said about BK and ND.

I don't put a ton of stock into him but if the reason you don't listen is because of what he said in 2021/22 about Brian Kelly/ND, you may want to reconsider in light of his comical ownership (went far beyond what most of these types will do)
 
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Sports journalism is six feet under. It's been replaced by mouth breathing chuckleheads recklessly speculating for clicks. He said the same thing about Lincoln Riley in November.
The thing about decentralized "journalism" is the number of people with a platform and a need to fill the space has multiplied by orders of magnitude. I take all these dorks with many grains of salt. The only person I take as gospel is adam schefter lmao
 

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Sports journalism is six feet under. It's been replaced by mouth breathing chuckleheads recklessly speculating for clicks. He said the same thing about Lincoln Riley in November.
Yep. Frat boy dickheads pandering to an idiocrasy of sports fans. It's insufferable. What's worse right now is that ND fans are easy targets for their bullshit. Being snubbed out of the playoff, connecting Free to every job opening available, the fact that the industry is full of knuckle dragging slap dick chucklefucks is only amplified that much more.

Diego Pavia is going to be one sooner than later. Watch. It's all about douchebag caricatures. He's perfect.

Saban glazed Miami and Bama for weeks. They get in, ND doesn't, now he's carrying on about how Tulane and James Madison are Triple A baseball teams. Screw Little Nicky and his stupid analogy. None of that was part of his narrative leading up to the final 12. He lobbied for Miami and Alabama, now he gets to have it both ways? Sick of him and sick of people thinking what he says is important.

I really despise college football media right now more than ever before. This playoff garbage this season put me over the edge. Once this new contract is done, they can all eat it. The swill merchants will come back again next year with the same trash and people will dumpster dive for it.
 

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Yep. Frat boy dickheads pandering to an idiocrasy of sports fans. It's insufferable. What's worse right now is that ND fans are easy targets for their bullshit. Being snubbed out of the playoff, connecting Free to every job opening available, the fact that the industry is full of knuckle dragging slap dick chucklefucks is only amplified that much more.

Diego Pavia is going to be one sooner than later. Watch. It's all about douchebag caricatures. He's perfect.

I really despise college football media right now more than ever before. This playoff garbage this season put me over the edge. Once this new contract is done, they can all eat it. The swill merchants will come back again next year with the same trash and people will dumpster dive for it.
True.

But why has Freeman been essentially silent since the snub. Why not just come out and say "Guys I'm flattered, but I'm gonna finish what I started at ND"

And if he has, someone tell me as I've been checked out on sports since the snub. Didn't even know the Bama/OU game was tonight until at the barber today. I'm 95% certain MF will be back, so I'm not stressed just think he could handle the rumors better.
 

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Sports journalism is six feet under. It's been replaced by mouth breathing chuckleheads recklessly speculating for clicks. He said the same thing about Lincoln Riley in November.
He simply borrowed a page from the Colin Cowherd playbook which is to mention Notre Dame in a positive or negative light & let the engagement farming take it from there.
 

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True.

But why has Freeman been essentially silent since the snub. Why not just come out and say "Guys I'm flattered, but I'm gonna finish what I started at ND"

And if he has, someone tell me as I've been checked out on sports since the snub. Didn't even know the Bama/OU game was tonight until at the barber today. I'm 95% certain MF will be back, so I'm not stressed just think he could handle the rumors better.
I don't know. None of my fucking business as far as I'm concerned.

His team got snubbed out of the playoffs after having won ten on the bounce. He's working on getting new staff members in, working the Portal, who knows? I'm not entitled enough as a fan to demand or expect him to be saying anything right now. If he's negotiating a new deal, nobody should be spouting off any words until it's done.
 

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Yep. Frat boy dickheads pandering to an idiocrasy of sports fans. It's insufferable. What's worse right now is that ND fans are easy targets for their bullshit. Being snubbed out of the playoff, connecting Free to every job opening available, the fact that the industry is full of knuckle dragging slap dick chucklefucks is only amplified that much more.

Diego Pavia is going to be one sooner than later. Watch. It's all about douchebag caricatures. He's perfect.

Saban glazed Miami and Bama for weeks. They get in, ND doesn't, now he's carrying on about how Tulane and James Madison are Triple A baseball teams. Screw Little Nicky and his stupid analogy. None of that was part of his narrative leading up to the final 12. He lobbied for Miami and Alabama, now he gets to have it both ways? Sick of him and sick of people thinking what he says is important.

I really despise college football media right now more than ever before. This playoff garbage this season put me over the edge. Once this new contract is done, they can all eat it. The swill merchants will come back again next year with the same trash and people will dumpster dive for it.
Glad to hear someone else note the bolded. I had the same thought. Everything Saban did was orchestrated based on his loyalties:

Glaze Miami on the final day before the CCGs b/c Cristobal is one of my boys…Check

That leads to the chairperson of the CFP committee urging all members to re-watch the Miami-ND game before voting…Check

Glaze my former employer & conference where I was crowned the GOAT & made generational wealth…Check

Try to save face after the fact by getting in a few quotes how ND should be in…Check

”See I’m just an old school ball coach that knows good teams when I see them”

GTFOH
 

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True.

But why has Freeman been essentially silent since the snub. Why not just come out and say "Guys I'm flattered, but I'm gonna finish what I started at ND"

He did the same thing when PSU and Florida called (which they absolutely did). He said nothing, because it's a big nothingburger.

Real Gs move in silence like lasagna.
 

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True.

But why has Freeman been essentially silent since the snub. Why not just come out and say "Guys I'm flattered, but I'm gonna finish what I started at ND"

And if he has, someone tell me as I've been checked out on sports since the snub. Didn't even know the Bama/OU game was tonight until at the barber today. I'm 95% certain MF will be back, so I'm not stressed just think he could handle the rumors better.
I don't really think him doing a media blitz like Pete would have accomplished anything. Also, the rumors are partially of his own (agent's) creation. Not gonna put something to bed that you need to use as leverage.

Pete Sampson and John Brice are great for info on this kind of stuff and are both very confident, until they say otherwise I have no worries.
 

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Yep. Frat boy dickheads pandering to an idiocrasy of sports fans. It's insufferable. What's worse right now is that ND fans are easy targets for their bullshit. Being snubbed out of the playoff, connecting Free to every job opening available, the fact that the industry is full of knuckle dragging slap dick chucklefucks is only amplified that much more.

Diego Pavia is going to be one sooner than later. Watch. It's all about douchebag caricatures. He's perfect.

Saban glazed Miami and Bama for weeks. They get in, ND doesn't, now he's carrying on about how Tulane and James Madison are Triple A baseball teams. Screw Little Nicky and his stupid analogy. None of that was part of his narrative leading up to the final 12. He lobbied for Miami and Alabama, now he gets to have it both ways? Sick of him and sick of people thinking what he says is important.

I really despise college football media right now more than ever before. This playoff garbage this season put me over the edge. Once this new contract is done, they can all eat it. The swill merchants will come back again next year with the same trash and people will dumpster dive for it.
Preach! Couldn’t agree more.
 

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Why are we even talking about this?
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I think people are antsy because the window to get an extension done pre-NFL calendar is roughly the window of time that we are currently in. Everything I heard from people who would know basically said that this week pre-Christmas is when you would expect something to be signed / announced. This goes back to when ND was supposed to be in the playoffs and people were saying that a contract extension would get done between the end of the season and the first playoff game similar to last year. It's possible you still see something this weekend or next week. The longer this drags on, the more people are going to speculate and question whether there is some snag in the negotiations or if he wants to wait and see which NFL teams might be interested. Is what it is. I think it's most likely a case of neither side being in a rush and trying to hammer out specific clauses / language. But people are going to keeping wetting the bed until given a reason not to.

I also think that all of the writers going "oh it'll be any day now" are likely correct but also strictly basing this opinion on what the ND side is saying not anything from the Freeman end of things. I say this because they have been intentionally vague and many of them wrong for awhile now.
 

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I don't really think him doing a media blitz like Pete would have accomplished anything. Also, the rumors are partially of his own (agent's) creation. Not gonna put something to bed that you need to use as leverage.

Pete Sampson and John Brice are great for info on this kind of stuff and are both very confident, until they say otherwise I have no worries.
The vibe I've been hearing from some people in the know, is Freeman is all ND and to only worry if/when OSU opens up. And I know we all think that's pretty obvious, and I'm not sure how to read into it....like is it just obvious to everyone and that's why they say it or is it a known thing that if OSU opens up and they want him...he's gotta go. Which obviously nobody could blame him for that.

I even hang onto the fact everyone assumed Dabo was the heir apparent at Alabama and we all know how that played out.
 

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The thing about decentralized "journalism" is the number of people with a platform and a need to fill the space has multiplied by orders of magnitude. I take all these dorks with many grains of salt. The only person I take as gospel is adam schefter lmao

He is getting worse
 

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I don't really think him doing a media blitz like Pete would have accomplished anything. Also, the rumors are partially of his own (agent's) creation. Not gonna put something to bed that you need to use as leverage.

Pete Sampson and John Brice are great for info on this kind of stuff and are both very confident, until they say otherwise I have no worries.
Because they are actual reporters with real sources inside Notre Dame, not random assholes just running their mouth to fill a podcast and make social media clips.
 

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Because they are actual reporters with real sources inside Notre Dame, not random assholes just running their mouth to fill a podcast and make social media clips.
..and collect that sweet Bud Light High Noon/DraftKings lucre.
 

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The vibe I've been hearing from some people in the know, is Freeman is all ND and to only worry if/when OSU opens up. And I know we all think that's pretty obvious, and I'm not sure how to read into it....like is it just obvious to everyone and that's why they say it or is it a known thing that if OSU opens up and they want him...he's gotta go. Which obviously nobody could blame him for that.

I even hang onto the fact everyone assumed Dabo was the heir apparent at Alabama and we all know how that played out.
That’s what has me wondering what happens if Day wins another one? Regardless of what we as ND fans think about the guy, he’s & his family have probably put up w/ some stupid shit from Buckeyes fans. Whether he’s a fit for the NFL (I tend to think he’s not but they hired his old mentor multiple times & I didn’t think that was a good fit), that would have to be the next mountain to climb for him professionally, right? And NFL teams are desperate enough to do it b/c once the new flavor of the month wears off & they realize they hired an idiot, they can just fire him after a season or two & start over.
 

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He owned the BK stuff. He actually put a clown nose on and read old transcripts of what he said about BK and ND.

I don't put a ton of stock into him but if the reason you don't listen is because of what he said in 2021/22 about Brian Kelly/ND, you may want to reconsider in light of his comical ownership (went far beyond what most of these types will do)
I'm glad he dressed up as one, because Pate is a clown. He's just a ballwasher for the SEC. I also don't believe he has any real sources, he just posts a bunch of cryptic shit and then a story breaks he circles back and says that is what he was referencing before.
 

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What does that even mean, “Expected to be the top candidate.” ? Holy hedging…

I expect to be the top candidate to win the powerball, doesn’t mean it’s gonna happen.
 
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