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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

1-on-1 with Marcus Freeman + Notre Dame’s BIGGEST question! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Marcus Freeman joins the show to discuss what Lou Holtz taught him, the “leave no doubt” mantra, why this is the best off-season of his career at Notre Dame, CJ Carr’s growth, the defensive line depth, the reason he is not worried about the running back room and so much more. Plus, McElroy looks at Notre Dame’s biggest spring questions: who plays where on the offensive line, will play makers step up at RB and WR and is this the best defense in the Freeman era? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's not that I don't think the office of line will be good.

0:02.0

I just don't know who's going to play where and what the continuity is going to look like.

0:06.0

So as you assess that group, kind of what's the mentality heading into the spring and hopefully coming out of the spring with what you want to have established along the front?

0:16.0

Yeah, it's like you've been in our building and in a couple meetings.

0:19.0

I don't know, man.

0:20.0

You know what we're talking about.

0:26.8

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy. We are so happy to

0:31.2

have you here with us today. We have been diving into our spring previews. We did the SEC last week, dove into all 16 teams,

0:41.0

and today just won. Today is Fighting Irish Day. We love Notre Dame here at Always College

0:48.2

football. We are going to dive deep into their roster, some of the spring questions, the mission that they are collectively

0:56.3

on en route to what might be their first national championship in nearly 40 years, an exciting

1:03.0

time right now surrounding South Bend, Indiana, and they have the roster to potentially make a

1:08.7

run. They have the quarterback. They have the weapons. They got great

1:12.1

depth along both lines of scrimmage, and we will break all that down today with their head

1:17.5

coach Marcus Freeman. This team is on a mission with the Leave No Doubt tour firmly established.

1:24.1

We'll ask them about their mentality heading into spring. Some of the goals they're trying to accomplish.

1:29.5

The continuity between their office coordinator and their quarterback.

1:32.9

How great it is to have a returning quarterback.

1:35.4

We'll talk about all those things with Marcus Freeman here momentarily.

1:39.2

And then we'll finish things up with our evaluation of some priorities that Notre Dame will be looking closely at over

1:47.7

the next 15 practices. Before we get into our conversation, kindly ask you to go ahead, subscribe

1:53.4

to the podcast. Wherever you get the podcast, doesn't matter where, just subscribe. It'll be in there

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