Marcus Freeman named Dick Corbett Head Football Coach

[Te'o4Heisman]

The person that said “buckle up” responded to the poster who started the thread that said “buckle up” poster thinks freeman is leaving with “By me saying Buckle up?

JFC”

Buckle up inception

This hurt my brain to read. Can you clarify?

 

[tirishman505]

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Maybe odds respond to clickbait articles, but Freeman is the betting favorite on Kalshi now

Kalshi and Polymarket are completely fake. I wish they would stop quoting them as insights on the future. They’ve absolutely been rigged in the past and will become more and more rigged in the future until the betting public at large gets wise to the scam.

 

[greyhammer90]

This hurt my brain to read. Can you clarify?

Something something bedwetter something something switching to DT

 

[Rudy89]

NFL talking heads are going to do their thing. Nothing ND can do about that except announce an extension.

Real talk though, what can an extension actually do? We see coaches leave willy nilly all the time, can an extension really stop that? Someone who knows the ends & outs of coaching contracts educate me on that one.

 

[IRISHbluehen]

Real talk though, what can an extension actually do? We see coaches leave willy nilly all the time, can an extension really stop that? Someone who knows the ends & outs of coaching contracts educate me on that one.

Buyouts make it cost prohibitive to hire extended coaches, especially in the first couple years of a contract, the buyout usually gets lower the farther into the contract.

 

[stlnd01]

Real talk though, what can an extension actually do? We see coaches leave willy nilly all the time, can an extension really stop that? Someone who knows the ends & outs of coaching contracts educate me on that one.

You don’t sign an extension and then immediately leave. It would end the conversation for this cycle, and if there is a substantial buyout hopefully next year too.

 

[jprue24]

This is going to happen every offseason. The rooney rule is still a thing and MF is an easy "shoot your shot" box check.

 

[calvegas04]

Buyouts make it cost prohibitive to hire extended coaches, especially in the first couple years of a contract, the buyout usually gets lower the farther into the contract.

Mf could have a NFL opt out clause where the buy out is half or none.

 

[jpachuta33]

 

[Rudy89]

So again someone who knows more about the ins and outs of this sort of stuff answer me this question, would it be wise to have a short list of coaches in our back pocket if say Freeman does pursue the nfl or the osu job after next season? It always seems like everyone else has a better option ready to hire for HC than us when we get left out in the cold with a coach leaving or a termination. Obviously Freeman has worked out but (and I may be mistaken on this one) Weis & Kelly weren’t our first choices when it came to who we wanted to hire. With coaches leaving as often as they do these days I feel like it’s easy to get caught not being ready for it & it’s much harder to find stability these days. Which despite flaws in his coaching Freeman has given us some good consistency & stability since 2022.

 

[Dale]

That was by design. It was an emotional hedge. If the football gods told me “give us 3 grand and ND wins a nattie” I’d find a way to come up with the funds.

My point is you can’t be the “I’m just being realistic” guy when you also emotionally hedge the Syracuse game because of football gods

 

[ColinKSU]

If he were to leave now, he would lose a lot of respect from a lot people. Every message from
him becomes boring as coach speak.

And we would absolutely be fucked for next season and beyond. You wouldn’t be to find a coach worth a fuck.

All that said I don’t believe he is leaving.

I’ve thought a lot about how unbelievably fucked Notre Dame will be when Marcus eventually leaves.

Say he leaves and they don’t replace him with someone on staff. Say they lose their whole recruiting class (like Penn State). Say they lose a lot of current players to the portal.

What does ND do to fill all those holes? They’re not allowed to mine the portal unless they bring in 30 postgrad players. They can’t just completely flip the roster. The way they handle transfers would set the program back for years.

 

[irishandy]

So again someone who knows more about the ins and outs of this sort of stuff answer me this question, would it be wise to have a short list of coaches in our back pocket if say Freeman does pursue the nfl or the osu job after next season? It always seems like everyone else has a better option ready to hire for HC than us when we get left out in the cold with a coach leaving or a termination. Obviously Freeman has worked out but (and I may be mistaken on this one) Weis & Kelly weren’t our first choices when it came to who we wanted to hire. With coaches leaving as often as they do these days I feel like it’s easy to get caught not being ready for it & it’s much harder to find stability these days. Which despite flaws in his coaching Freeman has given us some good consistency & stability since 2022.

If ND wants to keep Freeman offer him to become the highest paid coach in college football. 10 years/150 million.

Are we speculating that Ohio St. is going to get rid of Day after 2026? If so why?

I don't think Freeman is NFL ready and I think he would make a better college coach than a NFL coach.

 

[Rudy89]

My point is you can’t be the “I’m just being realistic” guy when you also emotionally hedge the Syracuse game because of football gods

I feel like there’s room for both. Do I really think that Freeman is going to go? Prolly not. But I don’t feel like it’s a stone cold lock of the century that Freeman is staying because of just how the landscape has changed. It would be unrealistic to think that Marcus Freeman might leave ND to pursue a career in voice acting for cartoons, it’s realistic to think Freeman after being on the front line of some complete and utter bullshit corruption that kept him & his boys from having another opportunity to win a National Championship to think it might be better for him to go to the NFL.

Yes, I am a natural pessimist & yes I’m going to think about the bad & vent it online where it really means nothing when I think about it. But I do feel like there’s things now when it comes to Marcus worthy of an eyebrow raise and some concern. Especially now that “legit” outlets are talking about Marcus possibly making the jump rather than the real world equivalent of the Sports Jock & Chad show from the Royoke Diner in Arlen Texas.

 

[Rudy89]

If ND wants to keep Freeman offer him to become the highest paid coach in college football. 10 years/150 million.

Are we speculating that Ohio St. is going to get rid of Day after 2026? If so why?

I don't think Freeman is NFL ready and I think he would make a better college coach than a NFL coach.

I don’t think it’s so much that OSU will get rid of Day as much as if OSU is able to win another Nattie this year and make another great run in 2026 Day might be looking to try and see how he does in the NFL after accomplishing so much on the college level. There’s a lot of “what ifs” but it’s nothing incredibly out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Bluto]

That would be worst comes to worster, my friend.

Isn’t that a film with Marky Mark in it?

 

[Sea Turtle]

So again someone who knows more about the ins and outs of this sort of stuff answer me this question, would it be wise to have a short list of coaches in our back pocket if say Freeman does pursue the nfl or the osu job after next season? It always seems like everyone else has a better option ready to hire for HC than us when we get left out in the cold with a coach leaving or a termination. Obviously Freeman has worked out but (and I may be mistaken on this one) Weis & Kelly weren’t our first choices when it came to who we wanted to hire. With coaches leaving as often as they do these days I feel like it’s easy to get caught not being ready for it & it’s much harder to find stability these days. Which despite flaws in his coaching Freeman has given us some good consistency & stability since 2022.

Every AD should have a 'what if my coach gets run over by a bus' list.

Al Golden and Clark Lea are probably on ours. Maybe Tommy Rees and an elevation of Mickens as well.

 

[TorontoGold]

Real talk though, what can an extension actually do? We see coaches leave willy nilly all the time, can an extension really stop that? Someone who knows the ends & outs of coaching contracts educate me on that one.

More money = less likelihood of leaving.

 

[EvilleIrish]

My point is you can’t be the “I’m just being realistic” guy when you also emotionally hedge the Syracuse game because of football gods

Thanks Dale.

 

[Rudy89]

More money = less likelihood of leaving.

I do get after the Weis debacle how ND would be hesitant to sign someone to a big contract but unfortunately it seems to be the landscape of the game these days.

 

[IrishBryan77]

Charlie Weis Jr. 🤣

 

[benneboy]

Charlie Weis Jr. 🤣

Crazy he's making $2.5 mill as an OC

 

[calvegas04]

BK is available, Rees, Malik Zaire, Golic

 

[jprue24]

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[pumpdog20]

Watch... the playoff committee is going to force MFMF to the NFL because he doesn't think they operate in good faith.

 

[BoredIrish]

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The guy I would have at the top of my list to replace Freeman is also on this life... Anthony Weaver. Along with Tommy and Clark Lea.

 

[jprue24]

I just followed the links for a source to the "$40 to $50 million" buyout rumor. Four links to get to this from the sporting news,

"Since then, though, the actual number hasn't been reported.

It likely went up by a factor of as much as 10. The buyout of Luke Fickell at Wisconsin, for example, is $40 million."

This musing is sensationalized into a "rumored buyout" through 3 subsequent articles and is now,

"Then, the interested NFL team would have to navigate his rumored buyout of $40 million to $50 million in order to poach him from Notre Dame, and it would hope that Freeman can hire a good enough staff to help a rebuilding team."



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[FWIrish4]

"Then, the interested NFL team would have to navigate his rumored buyout of $40 million to $50 million in order to poach him from Notre Dame, and it would hope that Freeman can hire a good enough staff to help a rebuilding team."

Even if the NFL org could pay top dollar for his hypothetical staff, who would he even hire in the NFL?

McCullough to coach your RB’s? Cool, now try to find someone who can run a successful offense with a young QB. Good luck. The list is basically nonexistent.

 

[MacIrish75]

idk man I’m not even wasting my time worrying about this. If he leaves everything he basically ever said was a load of crap and if he stays it was genuine. That’s it.

 

[Bane]

idk man I’m not even wasting my time worrying about this. If he leaves everything he basically ever said was a load of crap and if he stays it was genuine. That’s it.

Yeah. And I mean if he did leave right now for the Giants, it would be my 2017 NFCCG moment. That loss by the Vikings to the Eagles just sort of broke me in a way that I have never cared about the NFL in the same way since. I still watch, but I don't really care one way or the other. When the Braves let franchise icon, clubhouse leader, and heir to Chipper Jones' place in Braves Nation, Freddie Freeman, walk over a few dollars I never cared about them the same way.

I just couldn't fathom caring about ND football in the same way Freeman left the best age of ND football since the early 90s for that dumpster fire in New York at this stage in the year. I would still be a fan, but I would be much less emotionally invested.