Yep the leadership spoke to the team and they wanted to make sure the players did not hit the portal. Also what Coach would keep the players at the school.
One hr later the deal is done.
Rumour is that Fickell wanted too much $$ and may have been playing ND against OU for more quan.
Tim Brown said it this morning, ND wasnât going to overpay for a coach, so he figured they would make Freeman the HC.
ND is not trying to be LSU or USC; it thinks of itself as the Catholic Harvard (Georgetown is the Catholic Yale).
You got that right!