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The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

Notre Dame hires Marcus Freeman as new head coach

The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Athletic

Sports News, Sports, News, Football

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Pete Sampson and Matt Fortuna react to the hiring of Marcus Freeman as Notre Dame's new head coach. Does hiring Freeman make Notre Dame part of the "cool kids table"? Is there a risk in hiring a first-time head coach? What is Freeman's vision?

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0:00.0

Welcome back to yet another somewhat emergency edition of the shamrock.

0:18.1

I'm Pete Sampson joined again by Matt Fortuna. Man, I feel like we just

0:23.4

talked last night. It was this morning. It was this morning. Okay. Is anything new with you or

0:29.1

what's happening? It was this morning and we're talking earlier tonight than we have been on

0:34.7

previous nights, which means like, shoot, like, I may be able to watch like a TV show before I fall asleep tonight if all hell doesn't break loose.

0:43.3

Yeah, it was, I mean, I think when we last joined you, dear listeners, 12 hours ago, we had a feeling that there could be some resolution today.

0:53.5

It's at the one yard line as far as head coach resolution, which was largely predicated

0:59.7

on Tommy Reese opting in to be the offense coordinator again for the Marcus Freeman

1:06.0

regime.

1:06.7

And he did it.

1:07.9

He did it in a way that I'm sure everyone saw the video.

1:13.8

And as someone who was in that room called me up right after and said,

1:17.5

so what did you think of that video after the one that around this morning for Brian Kelly's address?

1:24.2

The players reacting in some way, shape, or form was definitely a contrast to Brian

1:29.6

Kelly's appearance in that same room.

1:33.1

That, I tweeted this.

1:34.2

Like, that's the Tommy Reese that like the guys who really knew him at Nerderdame, the guys who really know him that play for him.

1:40.7

Yeah.

1:40.9

Like, you know, when you're the quarterback in our game and when you went through hell

1:45.1

the way he did as a player.

1:47.6

And when you're a, you know, 30 year old and 18 year old's body as he essentially was

1:51.4

as a player, you get to be very media savvy.

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