Instant Reaction: Marcus Freeman will be the next head coach, with Tommy Rees staying on
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ย. 2024
- In the roughly 48 hours since the Brian Kelly news broke, Notre Dame fans, players, and recruits have been very vocal in expressing their wish that Marcus Freeman is the next head coach of the Fighting Irish. They are getting their wish.
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Instant Reaction: Marcus Freeman will be the next head coach, with Tommy Rees as OC
#NotreDame #GoIrish
It’s wild watching this in the year 2024
lol what were your takeaways from watching it
@ it’s still true. Need a QB which I think we have a lot better QB recruiting than Kelly but they need to use them and stop with the portal. Marcus has done great with Defense recruiting …
Marcus can win the big games! But needs to conquer the small school ND Curse
Kelly can’t win the big game still!!! And isn’t a players coach
Not sure I’ve seen a coach get this much support, ever really, love it, Rees etc too. #FreemanEra #GoIrish
You guys got a damn good coach!! The man is loyal. We really miss him at Cincinnati.
This feels different, it feels fresh, it feels good!
As a fan since the 80's this hire gives me a feeling I haven't had since Holts left......hope!!
You took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you for watching and commenting.
Lets GO Irish nation so happy congratulations to coach Freeman
Thank you for watching and commenting. Have a great time watching how this all plays out.
Thanks to all of you.
Throughly enjoyed your insight.
Thank you Hector for the support.
Great hire, freeman is a great recruiter and hopefully we get to keep all of our recruits for next year and beyond
Thank you for watching and being a part of the show. This is going to be a fun ride that is for sure.
Something is happening here. With everything that has happened over the last few days, something very special is coming alive.
Great hire! Go Irish! I’m all in with Marcus Freeman.
He is going to bring a new energy especially in how the program goes after it in recruiting.
Go Goolsby!!! Go Goolsby!!! Go!!!!!
I don't know if Freeman loves Notre Dame but I do know he loves and cares about his players. He understands what ND wants and needs and I'm confident he will do his best to accomplish that goal.
This is the most excited I have been about the ND football team , I remember when Jerome Bettis was a fullback even Allen Pinkett I can't wait to see how the player's respond and how far they are willing to go for coach Freeman? I really believe that coach Kelly did Notre Dame a huge favor because Freeman Is going to destroy the legacy that Kelly never could never create. Wait until Lsu gets a load of how he uses the QB position? Lol. And it was never a good gameplan so to speak well not good enough to even come close to winning a championship anyway so in my opinion it was nothing but a waste of time. Also I would love to see how the player's from LSU respond to getting a coach who basically abandoned these kids who he acted like he cared about ? I can tell you right now I wouldn't play for him , and I think Kelly is going to come and find out that move the way he went about his departure is going to come back and bite him on the ass. Because in my opinion honesty and respect goes a lot further than Kelly even realized when he decided to become a 2 faced coach and abandon his player's before even knowing if this team makes the playoffs??? Any player that play's hard for Kelly in my opinion after what he pulled with these young people doesn't understand humanity and the overall scheme of things. Let's go Irish.
That smile on Goolsby's face!!
Thank you for watching and supporter the show...smiles all around these days.
I think we are one step closer to breaking the 33 year drought.
Kelly got ND close, but when we all look back did he really put in the extra elbow grease to get the job done when it came to out recruiting programs? Thank you for watching and supporting the show.
Freeman a great hire I expect more top players to come and 5 stars and all
I would say expect less 5 stars. Notre Dame is just not in the arms race anymore.
@@brianblack3597 we rarely got 5 stars before, we have 4-5 coming in these next two years as of now, notre dame is back to being a power house dude, they LOVE freeman
@@wazoomay6910 that's because of the academic requirements. That is a big reason why he left Notre Dame. Also I think you will some decommits. ND avg 1.3 5 stars a year since 2011. They will not be a powerhouse anytime soon.
ND will get a 5 star each cycle I am quite sure, but it is always hard for ND to bring in as many the SEC does do to the academic qualifications. But rest assured Coach Freeman and the staff will be getting after it.
@@brianblack3597 Please explain how ND is not in the arms race anymore? You are saying with a top 5 class this year and for next year they are lining up an even better class of recruits. How is ND not a place players don't want to be at according to you? Thank you for watching and taking part in the discussion with us.
Good job guys. Thank you Jesus for Marcus
Thank you for watching and the compliment.
Great show
Thank you for watching and taking part in the show with us. We love the support.
Great recruiter, charismatic, phenomenal relationship builder with players, and above all else, CHARACTER. Something Brian "The Snake" Kelly NEVER had. That's a true Notre Dame man. I don't like the idea of a treacherous murderer being our head coach. Marcus Freeman is the man. I have faith in his ability to lead our boys on to do wonderful things.
When that avoidable tragedy happened when Declan Sullivan was killed, every at Notre Dame said they didn’t know the scissor lift limits in windy conditions, but I read one quote that I can’t find now, where Kelly personally yelled at Declan to get up there after Declan expressed his concerns. Either way, looking back , I can see Kelly had shown narcissistic, and sociopathic tendencies, and the way he was able to do what he just did, confirms it. The Irish will be much better without him. Go Irish ☘️
Thank you for watching and Coach Freeman is going to a relentless coach in pursuit of championships.
BK is officially the biggest op in SBI
He ain't from here, can't come here
What are they ranking when they come to the recruiting class
Greg, Koko B Ware was my favorite too! Here I thought I was the only one.
How soon can we get LSU scheduled
I bet within 2 years lol. I was thinking the same. We got Bama on the schedule in the near future back to back years.
Looks like ND just picked up a new rival!
Stick to Boston College and Purdue.
@@brianblack3597 lol. I personally want Michigan and M state back on the yearly schedule
@@AndrewEvenstar that would be way better maybe even some Penn State.
Very happy Irish people.
Everyone green with envy
I give Coach Kelly credit for turning this program around and getting us to where we are now. I have always known he couldn’t get us to the next step and would be a gatekeeper for the next step. I’m not a hater. This was meant to be. Thank you Coach Kelly! Go Irish!
Great comment and thank you for taking part in the show.
I'm wicked-psyched. (Bostonian-expression)
Go IRISH go CELTICS!
@@playafly131 Go Lakers!
Let’s play LSU let’s book it !!
Calm down.
Everything has it's place in time and ND vs. LSU will happen someday.
@@brianblack3597 Don't you find it funny that LSU hired the coach who was 0-2 vs. Alabama and 0-2 vs. Georgia yet went 2-0 vs. LSU.
The boys gonna be stoked. I would hate to be our next opponent, please please let it be Cincinnati.
Freeman's Hire as Head coach at ND Trump's LSU's hire of Bk That's all everyone has been talking about Twitter trend was all about #Freemanera ND has a Top 5 recruiting class LSU is at 15 So we are at the least 2 years ahead of LSU that we should keep winning !! and Win the National Championship Way before LSU does !! Let's Go Irish!!
Hahahaha!!! 😂 😂 😂 you guys are in such denial! .. but good luck. Still pulling for ND.
@@davidlindig Set the scene . Bama Loses Ok State loses ND In Rematch with Cincy then Take down the Giant's The Dawgs of Georgia ! Question? Has thier ever been a 1st yr head coach Coaching a team for the National Championship And Winning the Championship..taking over a program in less than a month? It's crazy !! And it's not out of the realm of possibility.
I'm a huge Notre Dame fan I love them always have always will and this is the best thing that's ever happened to them Kelly leaving now we have a chance to go on and win a national title I've been saying get him out of there for years
I don't like as much of the gripe talk from Goolsby but he is an Alumni he can do what he wants. Positivity let's go ND.
Great point in giving Goolsby the respect of his word as an alum. Remember he has been threw a new hire before and his experience and knowledge is great for us all to learn from. Thank you for watching and taking part in the show.
@@TimHydecoach solid point.
ND should of shown the money & gotten a coach that is a established proven winner. Like Dabo Swinney or Chris Petersen.
Dabo WAS Freeman back in the day. He became HC at Clemson directly from being a position coach
You realize Dabo was only the WR coach when he got promoted right?
Kelly will fit right in at LSU with his purple face, and yellow streak down his back. His LSU colors will show.
The Irish will do great with coaches and players who love Notre Dame and will build on and continue the great tradition of Irish football.
An if the new coach does great he will leave for the SEC also. The days of ND being a king is over unless they make some changes.
@@brianblack3597 Wrong -- a 30-year plan is investing big-time in the needed resources. Kelly was no longer wanted here.
@@brianblack3597 the Irish will always set the standard and those who belong will come and stay, and make the student athletes the best they can be. Notre Dame will never lower their bar to fit the national standards, they will lift student athletes up to the Notre Dame standard. Go Irish.
Disappointed at way BK left ND but, fully support Marcus Freeman as HC, glad Tommy Rees stays, the DOME is still GOld,
GO IRISH 111
14k views! Nice
Get LSU on the schedule
Freeman: no head coaching, true. But he's seen good head coaches as a player, as an intern, and as a subordinate; hope he's a good, fast study.
He has some good ball coaches around him and thank you for watching the show.
Rick Flair and the Four Horseman and The Road Warriors
Ahhhh love the wrestling talk I see hahaha. Thank you for watching the show.
Interested to see Rees without Kelly over his shoulder all the time.
This is going to be talked about quite a bit in the offseason I can guarantee you that. Thank you for watching the show.
Goolsby talking about Academics is hilarious and ironic.
Well, to be honest now class at ND is a lot different than going to class at LSU. Plus you only need the NCAA mandated 2.2 GPA to get into LSU and the other fine institutions in the SEC. Thank you for joining in the discussion with us.
When he says sec guys, he means dumb guys...
Everybody knows that I can rent and rave so I'm going to try to keep this short if I can. I was sickened by Kelly's press conference and his underlying implications about the University of Notre Dame. This just goes to show you exactly what I was saying about this guy. He implied that he had gone as far as he could go that he wanted to win championships and insinuated that that could not happen here I was discussed wanted to vomit when I heard the stuff because that is so far from the truth is unbelievable. The bottom line is is that if the university had not made the bad hires willingham Charlie wise Bob Davie set this University back 12 13 years it took Brian Kelly 12 years to get it back right at least he did that but to imply some of the things he was saying I could have strangled this man that's why this higher was so important because the university can't go backwards and like they did with the bad hires in the past that is the whole reason why we've been playing catch up all this time and I'm pretty sure that the people who know this will concur go Irish
Actually only took Brian Kelly 3 years to get to the big game. Lots of players were waiting for Kelly when he arrived.
But would you agree that everything fell into place with that particular team they overachieved but it was the start of things yet to come but no way was that team as talented as what they have on campus right now would you agree with that have a blessed day
@@richardharris3316 Yes that is true but he did get them to play over their heads and go 12-0. They won some big games and a few games they needed Lady Luck to help them out with. That was a fun and magical season for sure. The talent Marcus Freeman is going to break is going to be exciting to watch.
@@TimHydecoach Tim my brother I agree with you 100 on that. And yes it was a magical season because we hadn't been in the hunt like that in quite some time and so I tip my hat to the man for what he did I just don't like the way he went about it and I'm sure you know this as well as anybody it ain't what you do it's how you do what you do when you do it he said some pretty awful things that's coming out now man to LSU I think that is a stab in the back but I'm ready to put this behind us turn that page I don't even want to think about Brian Kelly any longer go Irish
@@richardharris3316 It’s onto the Coach Freeman era and 100% focused and breaking down his moves over his tenure. Going to be a fun ride.
YES..!! The right choice by good old Uncle Jack Swarbrick
Mickey Andrews new DC
I lean towards Bust. I dont trust most mens word. Most optimism is bull shit.
You can be a fantastic battalion/company commander in the military ( because it is focused more on tactics) and be a disaster as a corp/ commander (logistics/ strategy). Just cuz both say 'coach' dont mean it right
Some men are just better as foreman their entire lives, not the CEO. I am one of those guys myself.
Don’t let us in the playofff…….
All them good coaches out there and they hire bum ass freeman? Well we suck again and I’m looking for a new team
Bye Felicia
Well, hiring a coordinator to coach I'm sure it saved ND 70 million dollars so I hope that's important
Freeman is electric! So excited for the players and for us fans.
Great comment and thank you for watching the show.
Kelly now cast away on a lonely LSU island. He'll last 2 years before the meatgrinder that is the LSU coaching carrossel chops him up and spits him out. The bigger question is just how inept are the decision makers at LSU.
Lets all focus on ND and what lies ahead for ND. Thank you for your time Brian Kelly and good luck. Thank you for joining in the conversation with all of us.
It’s not a splash hire. See USC for splash hire. I’m not against Freeman, it’s a default hire.
LSU's "splash" will be a costly disaster. ND just needs a "normal" coach, not stubborn egomaniacs like Kelly.
@@A100-y2c All head coaches are egomaniacs. 😂. I think Kelly can win a championship at LSU like previous coaches.
@@salzuno79 Nick Saban was a relentless recruiter, Les Miles put together monster recruiting classes and Ed Ogeron is known as a master recruiter. Brian Kelly is no one of them on the recruiting trail. SEC programs are going to work hard in LSU country. LSU did not hire a tireless recruiter which is needed in that state.
@@TimHydecoach LSU gets recruits regardless of coach…the key is a good QB. When they get a good QB they win Championships.
@@salzuno79 Looking forward to seeing what Kelly does with Walker Howard falling into his lap.
I'm trying to think of any possible scenario where a whyte assistant coach w the exact same age and exact same resume as Freeman is even CONSIDERED, for one minute, for the head coaching job. And I can't. I was online and following the situation and I saw what happened. Current and former players, on the one hand (and 100% blk ones) pushed for their co-ethnic to get this prestigious job 100% for rayce reasons. On the other side you had virtue signalling fans pushing the same thing, either for virtue signalling reasons or bc they saw 'the players' and 'alumni' pushing it, didn't understand the motivations behind that, and just thought it was genuine enthusiasm.
This is an absolutely disastrous decision by Swarbrick. This man was Luke Fickell's d-coordinator one year ago. Now you choose him over Fickell? He was barely qualified enough to be ND's d-coordinator. Fickell is going to go somewhere, or stay at Cincinnati, and win big and keep winning big. And Freeman is going to what? What does he do, exactly, that he's now the head coach? It wasn't a dominant defensive unit, and definitely not in the games against better offenses. Cincinnati didn't miss a beat without him. He had no recruiting rep at Cincinnati, and thus far has helped w maybe one class worth of good recruiting here. That's someone you keep on staff if possible (as Kelly tried to do), it's not someone you name coach at 35. Bob Diaco was a masterful recruiter, an all time recruiter - he would never in a million years have been considered for a promotion from Charlie's coordinator to head coach.
This is virtue signalling gone horribly wrong. And when it flames out dramatically, as it's going to sooner rather than later, all those 'current and former players' are going to suddenly be pretty quiet. Or if anything they'll complain that he's not getting a fair shake from fans and media. And we know why they'll say that is. That's the other fun part of this. We all remember the Willingham situation. He was (100% correctly) fired, and what did the media say? So now ND is in a position where they will be reluctant to fire this guy when he inevitably is a disaster.
W Fickell on the market and eager this is just an all time botch by Swarbrick and the administration and Jack should finally be fired for this. He is Stan Bowman.
btw, all any opposing coach has to do in a recruiting battle w Freeman for a white recruit is show them and their family a picture of Freeman and HIS family. No white dude from a good enough family to play at ND is seeing that and wanting to be around that.
Hahahaha, you really think all these kids are as straight up racist as you? Freeman has a super nice family with like six kids. You are straight nutter butters.
Look at the assistant coach to Head Coach Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia, Oregon, Michigan State, Cincinnati have all hired in recent years. Enjoy the research
@@josephmoya5098 Freeman does not have a super nice family, no. He has a disgusting abomination of a sin that was outlawed in this country everywhere for very good reason. Get that girl's parents and grandparents and siblings off the record opinions on that nice family.
Kelly was the winningst loser in Notre Dame history
I’ll never forget at halftime in the ‘ship vs Bama reporter ask “coach how do you get your team back in this game?”
“Maybe you can tell Bama to stay in the locker room “ said Kelly?? I knew then this guy is no killer
That is the absolute worst message to give a team in middle of a championship wow
Let’s hope Freeman is KILLER and our Saban
@@playafly131 I doubt it
@@playafly131 great memory on that quote. What a competitive fire in that quote.
Kelly was big on ,we could have won.. 42-14, We was only a few plays away
@@tmcc9867 And before him Notre Dame was horrible. Lets be honest.
Freeman is the best hire ,but ND will not be a national champion anytime soon.
They are closer than most schools though, despite uninspired BK efforts against UC etc.
Sense Kelly is gone when can Notre Dame go back to a real Football Field with grass not plastic. ACC and the SEC plays on grass.
That is the A.D. decision not the head coach.
We all prefer grass, but it's brutal to try to keep up a lawn with SB weather. Even School Field has gone artificial, 1st time in its long HS history in South Bend.
Did you see how poorly Stanford was? No thank you! You _” traditionalist”_ need to get with the times!
Who are these dopes! you know who is a great recruiter Franklin at Penn State .. He couldn't win a big game if his life depeneded on it
The counter to that is Dabo Swinney, and Nick Saban. Check mate!!
Hope Freeman turns out well. It's an amazing opportunity, but some of the rationalizing on this podcast and others is nonsensical. The guy has been there only a year but he "gets" Notre Dame? Lou Holtz is stunned that a guy who was there 12 years would leave Notre Dame for $100 million. Goolsby and Hyde down play what Kelly did for the program. He is totally responsible for the turn around and bringing the program back to prominence. Tim Hyde needs to put the Kool-aid down. In the real world great ability in pro sports and business, gets paid for it...and people move on. Ladky accuses Kelly of not being a "closer" in recruiting, But Freeman is? He's only been there a season but he has mystical properties than the guy who found really good players year after year to make ND compete against stronger programs. I realize that these three guys are butt hurt but they are blind to reality. As for the coaches, some will stay because they will be paid more to do so and continuity is necessary for Freeman. Others will go if they are paid more to do so and get promoted. It's a no-brainer hire for Swarbrick . The players want him and those close to the program won't take a critical look and ask why he doesn't even go through a process looking at other coaching talent so he can say that he hired the best guy. If Freeman pans out, Swarbrick is lauded and Freeman gets a longer honeymoon. Also, it's recruiting season and they can't miss time. This reminds me of the Packers hiring Mike Sherman as tight ends coach in 1997...and then Ron Wolf elevates him a year later after Ray Rhodes doesn't pan out. Good luck Marcus
Lou Holtz had a clause in his contract when he was coaching at Minnesota that if ND ever offered him a HC job he could leave. That's someone who gets ND. You don't need years and years on campus to get it. Marcus Freeman may not work out, but he understands the kind of program Notre Dame has the potential to be
1st of thank you for watching and joining the discussion Tom. None of us are butt hurt. We are excited about the future and what lies ahead for Marcus Freeman and the staff. Brian Kelly bailed on his own legacy and he made that choice. I have said on many videos that Kelly has done a great job. Go back and watch the "Final Thoughts" we do every Friday during the season. I have said many times that Kelly has done a great job. ND was a mess when he took over in Dec 2009. He went to the national championship game in his 3rd season. Has been to 2 final fours in the last 3 years, which is amazing to think about after the 4-8 meltdown in 2016. I have said the Brian Kelly 2.0 has been great and he has been a great coach for how he change and made ND a fantastic program. But lets get real for a moment and look at Kelly looking to leave after his 3rd season, to the Eagles. He was calling NFL and college teams the last month of the 2016 season. After the final 4 game vs. Clemson he was interviewing with the Bears in Jan 2019. It is now being reported he made contact with USC just a few weeks ago and even contacted Florida about the opening. So to say Kelly is all in at ND is false.
Go look at his recruiting and they were solid classes but you can ask anyone who writes about ND recruiting over the years and they all will tell you Brian Kelly was not a grinder. Ask Blue and Gold's own Mike Singer if recruits talk more about these assistants or Brian Kelly as a recruiter? As for Marcus Freeman as a recruiter he goes and gets a top 125 defensive end one the highest ranked ends ND has ever signed in Tyson Ford this class. Ford commits too Freeman without ever getting a call from Brian Kelly. Go read the reports on that episode this past spring. Go look at the defensive players Freeman has landed in this class and the next recruiting cycle. Kelly has not signed this many quality defenders in a class. Look at the linebacker haul Freeman is bringing in. Brian Kelly has not been pounding the pavement for those guys.
As for Kelly he was great for ND for this period, but wasn't Kelly hired because of his offense coaching? Where is the QB development and why hasn't QB recruiting been great under Brian Kelly? Ask yourself why did he leave? It is simple to figure out he did not want to work harder to get over the hump. He saw he could not win it all at Notre Dame which is saying something about him as a closer in his own legacy at Notre Dame. He did not finish the job and for that he left in a bad way and leaving a bad taste to those who follow ND.
I am no Packer fan but Mike Sherman winning percentage is 2nd only to Lombardi. I think ND Nation will take a 2nd in winning percentage for Freeman in his tenure.
Thank you for the discussion and we love to talk about ND, and I look forward to going over the hire more with you. Have a great day, Tim
Tim, you are arguing with a Kelly defender. Everything you said has been reiterated by Bryan Driskell for the past years. There are people who get it and others who just choose not take analyst’s word, like you guys don’t have people within the program who feed you information.
@@StoicBehavioR I have no problem with people who defend Kelly. I will defend him in that he coached this program to a point where they are on the cusp of a 3rd final 4 bid in 4 years. I am no Kelly hater at all. He put in 12 years and now there is a new chapter about to be written on Notre Dame football. There will be a book written about the end of the 2016 season to when Kelly left Merriweather's house in Seattle and took the LSU job.
Also I have never met Driskell nor follow his train of thinking. Thanks for the comment and the discussion. Always fun talking about Notre Dame football.
Rees wasn't offered! Guys stop acting like you won. You lost! Move on.
Dude, Rees was offered the LSU position. You are totally nutter butters too.
We're glad Kelly is gone. That's all that matters. He could easily go 3-9 at LSU, even ULM with Terry Bowden could give the Tigers problems. Only Vandy and S. Carolina are currently behind LSU as far as advancement of SEC programs. Skip Holtz is a better in-state coach than Kelly, the smaller schools like the Ragin' Cajuns will drain talent away. LSU has made a costly error.
@@josephmoya5098 no Kelly may have offered ,but not the university.
@@A100-y2c sure your happy! You are on here whining. Lsu won the natty in this century......notre dame hasn't.
Let’s really take a look at the schedule this year
Beat fl state barely which started 0-4
Should have lost to Toledo
Caught Purdue and whisky early but looked good in those wins
Barely beats va tech who is not good
Worst navy team in years
Gets Virginia with a backup qb baseball player
And beats ga tech and Stanford who blow
This is no playoff team
So same as the defending champ and #2 ranked Bama basically?
What a COLOLSSAL MISTAKE... You won't hear from Notre Dame for a decade
You're joking right?
@@jeffreyfrepanjr Well check back in a year maybe two we will see . Penn State's got a rah rah guy too, nice guy "great recruiter" couldn't win a big game if his life depended on it
@@markfusco2691 freeman isn’t a rah rah guy he’s an intelligent x’s and o’s coach
@@markfusco2691 well in fairness there are only maybe 5-10 coaches in the entire industry that would be considered successful. That’s why even just decent bums like Brian Kelly n Mich State guy get $100m+
Under BK, his best team was nearly a decade ago (2012). He's not great by any means. Many of the wins in recent years came DESPITE his mediocre efforts. LSU is the one that made a very COSTLY error.