F'n Hawks

Perfect! Was actually going to ask if you could do so

Freuchte

Agreed, but it’s also too early to make any judgement about next years roster. Once we see what we bring in from the portal it’ll be interesting to evaluate the roster.

Definitely possible. Unless he goes as QB coach

Assuming it was announced at end of year press conference, which is on a Monday

Marcus Freeman > Brian Kelly. These Notre Dams teams now match up and compete with the best in college football now.

Kostich has been 3 for 3 on long snappers in his time here. Let’s hope he hits on the next one too, it’s so nice not to have to worry about bad snaps.

And then bring in a real QB coach… Wouldn’t mind that at all

I would remove WR from maybe. We need a playmaker in that room. You could tell by the end of the year how little defenses respected their ability to create separation and get open.

Figured this topic warranted it’s own thread. OUT RB Sawyer Seidle DL Emmanuel Olagbaju DB Antonio Bluiett (grad) WR BJ Flemming QB Etienne Higgins OL Kuba Tyszka RB Randle Parker DB Idrique Carmichael In LB Jake Starcevic (Army)

Are we still searching for a 12th game for next year? Any rumors to what that could be?

True. Probably shouldn’t have even engaged with it

I really feel that Freuchte and Olson being forced to be on his coaching staff is untrue. I guess it’s speculation both ways and we will never know what actually happened. I just have a really hard time believing that Schmidt didn’t have 100% say. If he met with him and it didn’t feel like a good fit, you really think Chaves said they had to stay? Very unlikely. Schmidt probably knew that the current offensive players really like Freuchte. After meeting with him, he decided to give it a shot for a sake of continuity and thought they could work well together.

Defending well today

Schmidt quote in the Herald "I think that's the difference. Early in the season, you didn't know where the ball was going. We had tight ends catching balls, running backs catching balls. As the season went along, we got a little more ... I don't want to say predictable ... but we kind of lost a little of our identity."