Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part III
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Let's get into part two of today's. |
| 0:18.6 | Let's get into part two of today's Irish Breakdown Mailbag, brought to you by a fan duel, |
| 0:24.0 | and we're going to kick things off with a super chat from Andrew Burke. |
| 0:28.2 | Thank you, Andrew. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you, Andrew. |
| 0:31.1 | Pick one. |
| 0:32.2 | Notre Dame wins a natty next year, but Marcus Freeman leaves after, or Marcus Freeman stays for the next eight years, |
| 0:39.0 | no guarantee championships and see how it plays out. |
| 0:42.9 | Like obviously, I don't want Marcus Freeman to leave until he's ready to retire, but if those |
| 0:47.0 | are my two options, give me the title next year. |
| 0:50.5 | I mean, yes, give me the title. |
| 0:53.6 | Because if he proves you can win a championship, he makes the jobs. |
| 0:58.0 | If Marcus Freeman leads their aim to a title next year and then leaves for the NFL, |
| 1:03.1 | he has shown the rest of the world that it is possible to build an elite team consistently in Notre Dame. |
| 1:10.0 | In a three-year stretch, we were national title runners up, |
| 1:14.5 | had the hottest team in college football going into the end of the season, |
| 1:17.2 | got screwed out of the playoffs, and then won a title. |
| 1:19.9 | So now, of a sudden, the job is a lot more attractive |
| 1:22.2 | to whoever the next person is going to be. |
| 1:25.5 | But yes, give me the title. |
| 1:27.3 | Because if you're not guaranteed championships, then we don't know, you know, if he's going to win any, give me that if I knew that it was going to result in a title next year. Give me that. And again, that's going with your, I'm trying to respect your question and not, well, how about you win a title next year? And then he stays and you try to win a couple more. |
| 1:48.6 | That's obviously what we would all want. But in your premise, I would give me the title, |
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