Urban Meyer believes Notre Dame's locker room is 'unbelievable' due to Marcus Freeman
Now in his third season as the head coach at Notre Dame, Marcus Freeman has the Irish preparing to play for a national championship. Naturally, that has come with extensive praise for Freeman as a head coach.
One former coach and current analyst who has extensively praised Freeman has been Urban Meyer. On his show, The Triple Option, he pointed to how Freeman has built the locker room at Notre Dame, imagining that it must be an amazing atmosphere and group of players.
“I don’t know that team like I know the Buckeyes, but I know this coach,” Urban Meyer said. “I’m gonna say this because I know he gets a lot of credit, the best thing about him is he deflects it. That locker room must be unbelievable.”
Marcus Freeman was promoted to being Notre Dame’s head coach following the 2021 regular season. At the time, a video was released of him being introduced to the Irish team as the next head coach in South Bend and the team exploded in celebration, clearly excited about the decision to add him as the head coach.
“You [Mark Ingram] have been around those — you can be a hell of a coach and all of a sudden you have a locker room and you’ve got a problem. You can be a very average coach, and you have a bunch of monsters in that locker room, alphas that refuse to lose,” Meyer said. “I mean, my gosh. Right now, I’m chilled up thinking about those locker rooms when I would walk in you’d see grown-ass men that [care] about one thing, winning that next game and sticking together. That’s hard to lose. I mean, you’ve got to really screw it up as a coach when you’ve got alphas like that.”
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Notre Dame is the first head coaching opportunity that Marcus Freeman has had in his career. He now sits at 33-9 during his time in South Bend and has the Irish on the edge of a national championship. Standing in his way are the Ohio State Buckeyes, who Notre Dame will face on Monday, January 20th.
Marcus Freeman details impact of what a national championship means for Notre Dame
Ahead of that opportunity in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, Marcus Freeman shared what a national championship would mean for Notre Dame.
“It would be something special. 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,” Freeman said.
“There’s a lot of work that goes into getting to that outcome, and that’s what we got to 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.”