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Marcus Freeman on being named Notre Dame head coach

Who is more excited about this hire: Freeman or Notre Dame fans?

It has been known for a couple of days now that Marcus Freeman was going to be Notre Dame’s next head coach but on Friday morning the announcement was officially made by the University.  In the press release the University of Notre Dame sent out, Freeman made his first comments about being named the 30th head coach in program history.

“It is an honor to be named the head coach of Notre Dame Football,” said Freeman. “I am eternally grateful to both Father John Jenkins and Jack Swarbrick for giving me the opportunity to lead the exceptional men who make this program what it is. Notre Dame is a very special place and I look forward to pursuing a national championship with the most outstanding student-athletes, coaches and staff in college football.” – Marcus Freeman

Previous to Notre Dame, Freeman served as the defensive coordinator at Cincinnati and worked at Purdue and Kent State before that.  He was also a graduate assistant at Ohio State where he had previously played for the Buckeyes from 2005-2009.

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Notre Dame’s Swarbrick on College Football in 2020

Swarbrick also goes on to say the next “mile marker” to have an idea as to when students may return to campus will come when a decision is made on if those taking summer classes will actually be on campus or if they’ll all be done online.

Notre Dame athletic director is quoted Wednesday night in Pete Thamel’s most recent piece about whether or not there will be college football in 2020.  The Yahoo! Sports reporter gets quotes from other administrators but states the most important thing that needs to happen before we can even begin to think there will be college football as we know it this fall:

But for those looking for hints of hope for college football’s return, they should start with the clearance for students to return to campus.

Thamel and Yahoo! reached out to a dozen different administrators nationwide, Notre Dame’s Jack Swarbrick being one of them.

Swarbrick points out the mixed messages of telling students to stay home and athletes to come to campus if the conditions don’t abate.

“It’d be very hard to do,” Swarbrick said. “There’s a liability. Some of the dynamics of the game being what they are. The nature of it is such that there’s significant risks.”

Swarbrick also goes on to say the next “mile marker” to have an idea as to when students may return to campus will come when a decision is made on if those taking summer classes will actually be on campus or if they’ll all be done online.  For what it’s worth, earlier this week Ohio State announced they were moving all of their in-person summer classes to only being online.

Swarbrick is also quoted at the end of the piece with the following:

“Nothing quite matches the unique issues that are created by the activity being integrated into an academic institution,” Swarbrick said. “There’s nothing like it in other sports.”

The whole piece is worth reading if you’ve got a few minutes to spare (again, link is posted in the first paragraph here).  Until we start to see students showing up on campuses around the nation we aren’t going to see players suiting up.  It’s kind of common sense but makes a lot more sense the more you think about it.