Next ND Offensive Coordinator - the search

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FDNYIrish1 said:
Hopefully Parker is a really good football coach who just hasn’t been in the right situation. We’ve got a lot of talent and Freeman pivoted real quick to him. Though the search has been confusing, we probably saved enough money to fix those ice tubs Driskell was talking about. We shall see soon enough.
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Fake! Driskell doesn't believe in bathing! He made a personal medical decision to abstain from showering in anything other than Mountain Dew baby.
 
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ND poised to have their best season since 1993. The QB coach/OC leaves as well as the OL coach. MF replaces them by promoting underwhelming Gerard Parker as OC, underwhelming Gino Guidugli as QB coach, and undeserving Chris Watt as OL coach.

Their only links are that they know Marcus Freeman.

Well done MF and Swarbrick, well done. The fanbase can't thank you enough.
 
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Huntr said:
I don't understand. This university has cachet. It has a shit ton of money. And this is the best you can do?
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That's what I keep saying as well.

This is what we get for sticking by this team after watching the best coach since Holtz look for, locate, and leave for greener pastures? This is the standard now?
 
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Well, hiring buddies worked pretty well for Dabo - hope MF gets the same results...
 
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FDNYIrish1 said:
Hopefully Parker is a really good football coach who just hasn’t been in the right situation. We’ve got a lot of talent and Freeman pivoted real quick to him. Though the search has been confusing, we probably saved enough money to fix those ice tubs Driskell was talking about. We shall see soon enough.
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You have a 2nd year head coach that knows next to nothing about the offense. So we hire a tight end coach with very minimal experience and a OL coach as a first timer. This could get ugly fast.
 
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I honestly feel like this is a nightmare and I will wake up soon. I mean basically an entire offensive staff that has no clue what they are doing what could go wrong... completely embarassing... might as well go join the Ivy League... I mean for real this may be the setup for that... I have no other explanation
 
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Dale said:
We would have crucified BK for this.
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You're right about that, Dale. I absolutely hated some of the BK nepotism hires. My hope is that this is a one-time thing because Swarbrick apparently wouldn't pay the money to get his main target(s). If it isn't, then I'll criticize Freeman as much as I criticized Kelly.
 
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I’m gonna hold out hope that this experiment takes footing. If not, it’s a heck of a lot of talent that’ll be walking out the door. Possibly a set back that ND may never overcome.
 
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WilliamWallace said:
I’m gonna hold out hope that this experiment takes footing. If not, it’s a heck of a lot of talent that’ll be walking out the door. Possibly a set back that ND may never overcome.
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It's okay, I went through the same level of coping when Matt Patricia was named OC of the Pats.

It'll wear off as soon as you hear stories from camp that the offense is disjointed and a mess. Then you'll regret ever having hope.
 
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Luckylucci said:
Brian Kelly didn't inherit a top 10 program and coach his first game at ND in a NY6 bowl. Brian Kelly took over a program that didn't even have training table. In the 3 seasons before Freeman took over, ND football won 32 games. In the 3 seasons before Brian Kelly took over, Notre Dame Football won 16 games. And, those buddies you speak of, had won a shit load of games for him as a HC, at every stop.

Marcus Freeman walked into an already exceptional situation for a first time HC. It's about as good as it gets, literally. What other first time HC has walked into a better situation than Freeman in the last 10 years? Kirby Smart and Ryan Day. That's likely it.


Again, completely devoid of reality. Brian Kelly was never given several millions dollars to buyout a coordinator's contract. So, all things equal this is no different. You just want it to be.

Kelly hired Elko and Freeman. They were two very good coordinator hires that did not require some obscene buyout. Nothing is stopping Freeman from doing the same other than himself. Saying that he's being hamstrung because a singular candidate is off the table is literally the dumbest fucking thing on planet earth. I'm sorry but just because the media says it, doesn't make it right or smart. They're just as dumb for repeating this idiotic narrative that "The Gug" wants you to repeat. But, as we can all see, it's clearly working. Marcus Freeman has no option but to hire Parker.
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Ignoring the clear holes that Kelly left on the roster for Freeman to fix.

There's a reason this team fell off in 2022 and it was due to Kelly's failures. Was it still better than what Kelly had inherited? Sure. But that's not the point. The notion that Freeman inherited a great situation is devoid of reality.

The other issue is the timing. Kelly never had to go looking for a new coordinator in the middle of February, a month out from Spring Practice. By this point, many of the hot commodities for OC were off the table. Many of the remaining ones, while still quality, had their own issues. Namely interest and fit.

Sean Lewis was a name for a while, but there were concerns about how his offense fit what Freeman wanted to do. Candle and Moorhead were names, but they're both head coaches, so it calls into question their interest. Candle was pursued by Miami twice and turned them down.

Ludwig was probably the one guy that was an ideal fit and him bringing his OL coach meant that ND had interest and fit with what Freeman wanted out of his offense. Instead, the admin pulled the rug from under him and made him waste all that time and effort recruiting Ludwig and getting him interested, only for them to say they're not paying the buyout. Now Freeman has to start all over. So a timeline that was already well behind schedule is even FURTHER behind schedule due to the ineptitude and unwillingness of the administration.

Spring practice is a month away. Freeman needs guys in place now so he can start prepping. That situation is infinitely more difficult if you have to instill an entirely different offense.

You can say that a single candidate being off the table is fucking dumb, but it's not just that. It's the time wasted and the fact that this was already really late in the process due to the timing of Rees' departure.
 
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Irish4life said:
He's got plenty of rea$$$$$$ons to stay
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Other schools have plenty of reason$$$$$$$$$$$ to get him to leave.

I don’t get how anyone thinks money will get him to stay. If someone isn’t confident in their QB position after spring and calls, you think they won’t have money? What if Bama calls?

I don’t think in the end Hartman leaves, but I 100% believe it’s possible.
 
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