Marcus Freeman Video – Marcus Freeman burst through a side entryway in the room his Notre Dame football crew assembled in, siphoned two hands noticeable all around, and thundered as he strolled toward his players who’d ascended from their bowing positions and begun bouncing.
Minutes earlier, another Notre Dame staff member had acquainted Freeman with the players as their new lead trainer. He’d spent their last game, a Nov. 27 win over Stanford, as the Fighting Irish’s protective facilitator. However, at that point when Brian Kelly left to take the LSU work three days after the fact, bits of gossip whirled that Freeman might actually follow assuming Kelly attracted him there.
On Friday morning, however, Notre Dame declared that Freeman would stay with the program and become its new lead trainer.
“We’re very glad for you all, of your concentration and your capacity to secure the entire week this week,” the Notre Dame staff member told the players. “It was marvelous to see, wonderful to be a piece of. It shows what your identity is. Your DNA, your psychological durability, your actual strength.