He is building a new house in Granger. And keeping the old house.
Marcus Freeman named Dick Corbett Head Football Coach
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ShamrockOnHelmet
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Maybe I’m naive, but I just assumed something is either already done or in the works, and they are just waiting until the season is over to announce it. With all the moving pieces in College Football to navigate right now, the LAST thing the new AD needs is to have to deal with a coaching search having lost a popular and generally successful and well liked young coach.
Yeah, I was just naming one that worked out. The rest is responding to comments questioning Carroll's rah rah cred. Rah, rah coaches almost never have more than a year or two of success in the NFL. Without success, I think they can turn into charlie brown's teacher
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Youre not naive.
Freeman's deal is pretty much done, but he's being smart and getting a little more out of it. Good for him.
I love him very much, but he isn't a pro coach at this point in his career. He's a great CFB coach right now, and he's working towards elite CFB HC status. No way he kicks the ladder away and tries to go somewhere else right now.
(I'm not sure if he'll ever be a pro coach. He's not that kinda guy)
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Has this been addressed? Can someone explain this to me a middle aged, white male?
Jiggafini19Deux
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He should sell the old house and use the money to recruit WR.
MacIrish75
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MFMF 🤝 Ryan DayHas this been addressed? Can someone explain this to me a middle aged, white male?
Don't know how to post the video of this. But it's an interview of Coach Freeman on the Outta Pocket pod with RGIII. Really great interview. And how Freeman goes about coaching his team. After watching this. Man. This dude can be very good.
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That doesn't sound real. I don't like the idea of Freeman being the same age as my brother. (Watching Oden and Conley beat Muncie Central in back-to-back state titles sucked.)
As the late great Smash Mouth said, "the years start coming and they don't stop coming...."
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He looked like a 50 year old man in high school.
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Looked 50 in the 7th grade, seen it first hand!
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He looked like that when he was drafted. LOL
Jiggafini19Deux
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"Five star"
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Not that I didn't already know it, but it was disheartening to hear the Irish Illustrated guys and Pete Sampson on the most recent podcast all strongly imply that Freeman would be unlikely to stay if OSU came calling. I guess we should all be Ryan Day fans if it doesn't have any detrimental effect on ND.
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If he has great success here (a championship) it's hard to think he'd leave, but anything short and I can only imagine you'd look at OSU and how much easier it could be to do it there and want to make the jump.
I'd tell Freeman to choose hard.
I wonder how really they are in touch with his actual thought process in regards to jumping to OSU or if they are just assuming he’d make that decision. Also I think it’d be worse for their credibility if they said he’d stay at ND and he jumps to OSU than if they said he’d leave and he ends up staying
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Play whatever is the reverse of slide whistle music.
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They have no idea what Freeman would do. I find it hard to believe he’d leave.
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It seemed to be their opinion that he would leave if it was OSU or that it would be much harder for him to stay at ND if it was OSU. Also, they made it sound like they had sources who had told them the same thing, and I wouldn't be surprised one bit to see him leave for his alma mater at some point.
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My impression of what they said was simply it would be a very difficult decision for MF to choose between ND and OSU. And you’re right, it was only their opinion (they were answering a mailbag question to put it into perspective).
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Of course it would be a very difficult decision and, imo, it would all depend on timing.
I couldn't see him leaving this year, but in 2-3, who knows?
The school has seemingly given him everything he's asked for and he appears to be completely bought in to Notre Dame.
The good news is that the administration is willing to play "football" with the big boys now, so replacing him wouldn't be as difficult as it would've been a few years ago.
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I think this is exactly right. For a few reasons (at least):
1) It was Sampson who suggested it would be very difficult for ND to keep him, but Sampson has no basis for this belief other than his intuition, which if fine. But there is no reason to believe MF, or anyone around him, confided in Pete Sampson regarding his future intentions.
2) There are plenty of reasons why a coach in MFs position would take the OSU job, but there are even more reasons why a person like MF would prefer to stay at ND. At the very least, it is fairly well understood that a National Championship at Notre Dame is more elusive, valuable, and confers more on a coach who attains one than at a football factory like OSU. So, if MF feel like he is close (which he is), he’ll stay at ND. OSU will always be there.
3) MF is the author of everything that is being achieved at ND right now. If ND wins it all —this year or in the near future — Marcus Freeman will own it completely. He is the architect. At OSU will simply be another program chairman. At ND he can be Elon Musk or Bill Gates, at OSU the best he can be is Sundar Pichai or Darren Woods. That type of legacy differential matters at this level, even to a young guy like MF.
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I hope we get to build a statue for Freeman. This year would be great. He's not getting a statue at OSU.
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I would be beyond shocked if he ever turned down pOSU to remain at ND. I'd set the odds at 25:1.
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They, and most of the media for that matter, have been way off on a lot of their assumptions. Especially since Rees left the program. I wouldn't put any more faith in what they say than most people on this board. Dude converted to Catholicism ffs. I think he wants to be here. Let's just hope the admin doesn't force him out by not fully supporting him.
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And Blake Barnett had an ND golf bag, which is almost the same level of commitment as converting to Catholicism.
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My favorite description of him pre draft was, "he looks like Bill Russell's older brother".