Live updates: Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman Nov. 27 press conference

Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman holds court for a 20-minute season wrap-up Zoom press conference at 12:30 p.m. ET today. Follow along below for real-time, written updates of what Freeman is saying just two days after a 56-23 Fighting Irish victory over Stanford and a week before he learns against who and where Notre Dame will play in a bowl game.

What Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman is saying on Nov. 27

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• Freeman says you can’t turn the ball over the way Notre Dame did against Stanford. He says you can’t give up big plays either. But he’s happy with the way the team rebounds.

• Freeman says players of the game vs. Stanford were Audric Estimé and Javontae Jean-Baptiste.

• Marcus Freeman says if it’s up to him, he would love for every coach on Notre Dame’s 2023 coaching staff to be back in 2024. That obviously includes offensive coordinator Gerad Parker. Freeman says “consistency is so important.” Freeman makes it clear the offense has to be better in big games, but he believes Parker can make the necessary changes to enact improvement.

• Freeman says conversations about opt outs and players’ futures at Notre Dame are coming soon this week. “We have to have those conversations.”

• Freeman says he does not expect every Notre Dame player to suit up for the Fighting Irish’s bowl game, which will be announced (opponent, location) next week. “But I do want our players to understand how important this bowl game is to our football program.”

• Freeman shuts down rumors Notre Dame reached out to UNLV offensive coordinator Brennan Marion. Freeman on Marion: “I don’t know who that is.”

• Freeman says bowl practices are going to be so important for young players, like linebacker Drayk Bowen, to take the next step in their careers.

• Freeman says there have been positive discussions with the Notre Dame admissions department about getting student-athletes admitted in South Bend in a more timely manner. He says he cannot speak highly enough about that department. Everyone is on the same page about upholding Notre Dame academic standards while improving the success of athletics programs at the same time.

• Freeman on Notre Dame potentially playing LSU in a bowl game: “Obviously the history Brian Kelly has with Notre Dame, what a great opportunity… I know there would be some storylines.” He downplays it though, saying playing LSU would be just as great as playing any other great opponent.

• Freeman says he does not have an answer for why the Irish offense was much worse against good opponents and in losses than it was in the Irish’s wins. He’s going to do a deep dive this offseason. He wants to figure out “here’s what this defense did to us that we have to have an answer for.”

• Freeman: “My plan would be for Sam Hartman to be our quarterback for the bowl game.”

• Freeman says there is a big emphasis on trying to get Irish players to finish out the 2023 season with their teammates in the bowl game. “If it was only about a national championship, you had that decision you could have made earlier in the year.”

• Freeman goes back to the idea that going to the transfer portal for a quarterback this offseason is more about having four QBs on scholarship and less about not believing in Steve Angeli and Kenny Minchey. “If somebody decides to transfer, we have to have three quarterbacks on scholarship.”

• Freeman on road woes for the Irish in 2023: “I will evaluate everything we do.”