Has Marcus Freeman Lived Up To Expectations So Far At Notre Dame - Part 2
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🗓️ 18 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go to this next one, Sean, and let's talk about hiring coaches. |
| 0:04.9 | Has Marcus Freeman met expectations on the whole when it comes to putting a staff together? |
| 0:14.1 | And I think now is the perfect time to have this conversation because he just went to an offseason |
| 0:19.7 | where he had to make a lot of very |
| 0:21.3 | important changes, you know, and really two years in a row, they've had to make some really |
| 0:26.8 | important changes to coaches who left. So let's evaluate that one, Sean. First of all, |
| 0:32.6 | let you start. What's your take? Well, once again, you know, you can't have this discussion without really looking at the level of difficulty. |
| 0:41.8 | He comes in and I think this goes to, you can have a plan that you think is going to serve you well, as well as Marcus Freeman well. |
| 0:50.9 | And I think that's what Jack Sportberg did when, you know, we, we saw the structure where he tried to surround. |
| 0:57.4 | I think he tried to insulate and surround Marcus Freeman with some things that would make the transition a little bit better. |
| 1:05.4 | And ultimately, moving forward, things didn't work out probably as he thought it would. |
| 1:14.6 | So you really can't, you know what, that's a, that's a blemish. |
| 1:21.0 | The wide receiver coach, his initial wide receiver coach, you can see that as a blemish. |
| 1:27.1 | But for the most part his coaching |
| 1:29.7 | hires defensively i think he has man hit the majority of things out of the part defensively for the |
| 1:39.6 | most part offensively let me let me stay on that for a second. Yeah, go ahead. |
| 1:45.7 | Chris Ashes to be determined. |
| 1:46.8 | Right. |
| 1:52.2 | Is there another defensive hire he's made that you would question at all? |
| 2:00.6 | I think initially not the actual coach, but maybe the position that were coaching initially. |
| 2:04.2 | There were some questions, but I don't think there's anything that I could step back and definitively say, oh, that's a bad hire. |
| 2:07.9 | Who would that be? |
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