Marcus Freeman named Dick Corbett Head Football Coach

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When you always open the season on the road and have been opening the season against good competition, you are susceptible to losing.
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Heard and understood. I don’t agree, however. Freeman’s teams always need a kick in the butt to get going.

Calm and collective is good for the long run. But this isn’t baseball. Freeman needs his boys rolling week 1 and week 12
 
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Irish2155 said:
Heard and understood. I don’t agree, however. Freeman’s teams always need a kick in the butt to get going.

Calm and collective is good for the long run. But this isn’t baseball. Freeman needs his boys rolling week 1 and week 12
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In a perfect world, yeah, I would agree. Unfortunately, our first time starting QB and unsettled DC had to play against two CFP teams last year.

I think 2026 could look much different.
 
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Some small sample size analysis being derived here. I’m not going to make any definitive conclusions off a calendar month where we only have 4 seasons of data and where we also typically have tougher competition. I’m aware of the trend, but not too concerned.

Three of the September losses were to Miami, A&M, and OSU @ The Shoe. I still can’t wrap my head around Marshall and NIU and not sure that I ever will be able to. So maybe the September hypothesis has legs, but again, aware but not yet concerned.

Freeman has also shown the ability to learn from his mistakes and adjust. I like to believe he will have this team ready to roll early. I almost worry about them getting too complacent this season and taking their foot off the gas.
 
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NumbersGuy0520 said:
Some small sample size analysis being derived here. I’m not going to make any definitive conclusions off a calendar month where we only have 4 seasons of data and where we also typically have tougher competition. I’m aware of the trend, but not too concerned.

Three of the September losses were to Miami, A&M, and OSU @ The Shoe. I still can’t wrap my head around Marshall and NIU and not sure that I ever will be able to. So maybe the September hypothesis has legs, but again, aware but not yet concerned.

Freeman has also shown the ability to learn from his mistakes and adjust. I like to believe he will have this team ready to roll early. I almost worry about them getting too complacent this season and taking their foot off the gas.
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FWIW, Freeman's going into his fifth season. That's getting to be a lengthy tenure by modern CFB standards. Only 25 coaches have been in their job longer. If he's still here in 2028 he'll practically be a greybeard.

Regardless, I don't know what it is with the early season stuff. It's Week One for both teams. Only last year did it really feel like they came out unprepared, and that was more on scheme and personnel decisions than the players themselves. The losses to NIU and Marshall were more about looking past an opponent, I think. Hopefully we've learned from that because there's no one in the early schedule this year who should be all that threatening.

Mostly though I just want to see us blow the doors off of Wisconsin. After 10 months of sitting around with a sour taste in everyone's mouth, I think that'd be good for the soul.
 
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FWIW, Freeman's going into his fifth season. That's getting to be a lengthy tenure by modern CFB standards. Only 25 coaches have been in their job longer. If he's still here in 2028 he'll practically be a greybeard.

Regardless, I don't know what it is with the early season stuff. It's Week One for both teams. Only last year did it really feel like they came out unprepared, and that was more on scheme and personnel decisions than the players themselves. The losses to NIU and Marshall were more about looking past an opponent, I think. Hopefully we've learned from that because there's no one in the early schedule this year who should be all that threatening.

Mostly though I just want to see us blow the doors off of Wisconsin. After 10 months of sitting around with a sour taste in everyone's mouth, I think that'd be good for the soul.
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Agree. Four seasons is a good amount. That’s 50+ games.

Restricting the four seasons to September, or the first two weeks, and trying to derive meaningful causality in that stretch gets much noisier.

Agree on Wisconsin. Hoping we cover the double digit spread. We should be ready to roll.
 
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Eh, while accurate the criticism comes off as a bit unfair to me. Freeman had never been a head coach before so I assumed growing pains. 10 men on the field, NIU, Marshall, even Stanford are particularly sharp pains, but still fall under that category. He also gets more grace from me because he has seemed to improved every year. The same can not be said of other coaches (looking at you Lincoln Riley). Even Brian Kelly didn't consistently beat the teams he was supposed to beat until 8 years into the program, over 25+ years into his head coaching career.
 
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Anyone else find irony in that the 2026 season relies mostly on a head coach who played at OSU and a QB who is Michigan royalty?
 
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Anyone else find irony in that the 2026 season relies mostly on a head coach who played at OSU and a QB who is Michigan royalty?
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And our best defensive player's father is a professor at Texas, while another starter's dad is the athletic director at LSU. But they all came to Notre Dame for reasons.
 
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Wow amazing quotes there. "No better opportunity" than coaching Notre Dame. Impossible not to love and cheer for this man leading our beloved Irish. Gives me some hope that maybe he stays long term.
 
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And our best defensive player's father is a professor at Texas, while another starter's dad is the athletic director at LSU. But they all came to Notre Dame for reasons.
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Only a handful of schools can probably pull that off lol
 
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And our best defensive player's father is a professor at Texas, while another starter's dad is the athletic director at LSU. But they all came to Notre Dame for reasons.
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Wait what?!
 
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Ryan Day has the personality of a vegetable. Why is he going to be on the TV lol
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Probably because they got like 5 guys who are going to go in the first round.

And they will ask him how he was able to lose with 5 first rounders, and arguably the best player in college football who isnt in the draft, on his team last season.
 
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Probably because they got like 5 guys who are going to go in the first round.

And they will ask him how he was able to lose with 5 first rounders, and arguably the best player in college football who isnt in the draft, on his team last season.
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I've never seen a coach do less with more than this guy. He's the reverse Kirk Ferentz.
 
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