Marcus Freeman could join an exclusive club. Then what?
If Freeman wins a national title at Notre Dame at the age of 39, the hoopla surrounding him will be off the charts.
Marcus Freeman has tried so many different ways to say that he doesn’t want this Notre Dame run to be about him, but with his team on the doorstep of history, there had to be a way to drag something out of him.
So on Sunday I asked him:
I know you don't want to make this about yourself, so I'll frame the question this way: What do you think a national championship would mean for the University of Notre Dame and for your players and their legacy?
Thankfully, he obliged.
“It would be something special,” the third-year Irish coach said. “Obviously, this place hasn't won a national championship since 1988, and every year the aspirations are to win a national championship. That's why all these players choose to come to Notre Dame — one of the reasons — is to be a part of a program that can win a national championship.
"And so I think it's something that they'll be able to say for the rest of their lives is that they were a part of a national championship football team. And so there's a lot of work that goes into getting to that outcome, and that's what we gotta focus on. But it would be special for this university and for these players that have poured so much work into getting the results that we have."