Notre Dame football: Marcus Freeman introduced to team as HC (watch)

The Notre Dame football team made it official on Friday, naming Marcus Freeman the 30th head coach in program history.

It has been an insane week for the Notre Dame football program, one that came with the shocking resignation of Brian Kelly as head football coach on Monday. It is not often you see a head coach leave a team during a season that saw them go 11-1, and were currently waiting to see if they would make the College Football Playoff, but that is exactly what happened.

By Tuesday, everyone was clamoring for the team to name Marcus Freeman the next head coach, and as the day went on, we saw assistant coaches shun Kelly’s attempts to lure them to LSU, including Freeman. By Wednesday, word had been coming down that Freeman would in fact be the team’s head coach, sending shouts of joy across the program.

On Friday morning, not only did it become official on social media, but Freeman met his team as the head coach for the first time.

By the video, and if you read social media, you can see that Freeman was the right choice for this program right now. There was no need to wait or have a search for someone else, this is Freeman’s team, and the program is better off with a person like him at the helm moving forward.

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Now, we wait, as the Irish will watch conference championships get played this weekend in the hopes that some of the teams ahead of them in the CFP rankings fall. That would mean the first game Freeman would coach as the head coach would be a College Football Playoff game, giving the matchup even more intrigue.

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This is a home run hire for this program, as while he has only been in South Bend for a season, he has garnered the respect and admiration of players, recruits, and even alumni. Freeman is a rock that you can build you program on, and while Kelly did some incredible things for this program, Freeman is going to take it to the next level.