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The Jim Rome Podcast

322 - Marcus Freeman - 7/17/2024

The Jim Rome Podcast

Audacy

Sports, Football

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman on how his father's military background inspired his coaching career, his goals for year 1 of the 12-team Playoff, why he recruits players who 'choose hard,' how he got his teeth knocked out by Cam Heyward and much more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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here he comes to give me a chest bump and I'm like man this guy is going way too fast and all sudden

0:04.9

his helmet collides right with my teeth. I'm like oh no so I lost about two teeth in that incident and

0:10.5

I'll never forget I think it was Luke Stickle at the time who was the deepest

0:14.2

coordinator I was like hey I don't care about your teeth man we got a job to do and so I

0:17.3

had to coach the rescue and I was in the first half I know one tooth was gone

0:20.5

one teeth was chip. What's going on?

0:24.0

What's going on?

0:27.0

Welcome to the Jim Malone Podcast.

0:29.0

We're up to episode number 322.

0:31.0

That, by the way, is a big time number and this week I've got a big time guest because my

0:37.3

guest this week has one of the most prestigious jobs in all of sports he is the head football coach at Notre Dame. That's right, my guest. This

0:45.9

week is none other than Marcus Freeman. Marcus is entering his third season leading the Irish

0:52.1

after he of course was promoted from

0:54.0

de-coordinator back in 2021 he is coming off a 10-win second season with a

0:58.9

bowl win and a top 15 finish in the AP poll also one heck of a player in his own right,

1:04.7

we will talk about that.

1:05.9

My guy was a two-time second team, all big 10 linebacker

1:09.6

at Ohio State.

1:10.6

He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fifth round back in 2009.

1:15.0

Needless to say, for a 38-year-old Marcus has already had a pretty remarkable career and an amazing football life already and the most exciting part is he

1:26.0

really is only just getting started which is why I jumped at the chance to spend some extended

1:31.4

time with him right here on the original side hustles.

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