So Notre Dame Purdue game obviously is a, it's a very important game for Notre Dame.

I'm not going to rehash that a whole lot.

We did talk about this yesterday. And it's just a game that Notre Dame. I'm not going to rehash that a whole lot. We did talk about this

yesterday. And it's just a game that Notre Dame, it's a must win for Notre Dame. And for all

the reasons we explained yesterday, I don't know that this program can recover under its current

leadership if you lose a second straight game to an opponent that is just

not on your level.

I don't know how you, in year three, I don't know how you can recover from that.

A win is not everything is fixed, everything is awesome, but at least it gets you back on track

because games like Saturday

against Northern Illinois can be just devastating to your program if you don't handle it well.

And we're going to find out if this team handles that well. One thing we have seen from Marcus

Freeman. So there are trends that are clear of Marcus Freeman. Some are good and some are not so good.

One of the not so good trends, and I wrote an article about this on Sunday, is they just occasionally

don't show up for games. And I don't understand why. I don't know why. I'm not at practice,

so I can't put my finger on it. They gave us very little access to fall camp.

So clearly there's things that I couldn't see in fall camp that maybe could have allowed us to have a sense that maybe something like this was coming.

But I doubt it because what we would have seen in fall camp would have been the same team that went out and beat Texas A&M.

It's just we saw it against Marshall.

We saw it against Stanford.

We saw it against second half against Navy in 2022.

We saw it last year against Louisville.

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