Everything Notre Dame Coach Marcus Freeman Said On ESPN’s Always College Football with Greg McElroy

“Yeah, I think it’s one of the ultimate challenges of a coach, right, is that your job can’t be to keep everybody happy. We understand that your job is to do what’s best to help us win, but your role, whatever it’s defined to be, is so critical to helping us achieve this victory. And so, we have to, more importantly, than to keep everybody happy, we have to get every person and every player in this football program committed to team glory, committed to that joy that we achieve when you are able to win a football game.

“And your role, whatever it is determined for that week, is so critical for us to achieve that feeling of team glory. And so that, to me, is the challenge more than anything is to say, okay, how can not keep him happy, but how can we make sure this guy knows that your role is so critical for us to achieve this ultimate goal of team glory, which is more important than anybody. More important than any person, more important than any role. Team glory is what we want to achieve. And so that’s the challenge.

“How we spread it out will be determined each week. It’s a great problem to have, to have multiple different weapons that you got to find ways to get the ball in their hands. And that might mean putting two running backs on the field at the same time. That might be using certain guys in different positions. That’s the fun part about the tactical aspect of college football.”