Following their College Football Playoff National Championship loss to Ohio State, Notre Dame’s locker room was reportedly so much of a mess that USA Today’s Dan Wolken described the atmosphere as “amateur hour.”
“Bizarre scenes from the Notre Dame locker room, players yelling at reporters, coaches warning people not to ask certain questions. Amateur hour,” Wolken tweeted.
InsideNDSports’ Eric Hansen confirmed that the scenes were chaotic, but described a situation that was overblown and undeserving of the “amateur hour” label.
“From what I was told, Gray was sobbing with a towel over his head, convinced he had lost the game for his team. When he was questioned by the media about his play, he couldn’t gather himself to answer. And I was told when the media persisted, injured cornerback Benjamin Morrison got involved and tried to protect his friend,” Hansen wrote.
“I heard him call a media member ‘a coward’ and told him to ‘get out of the locker room.’ And his tone and his words were way out of character for anything I’ve experienced with Morrison before.
“It was loud and hostile, but my first-ever job in this business was covering former Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight, and so Monday night is far down the scale from what I’ve experienced previously in terms of vocabulary and decibel level.
“Having said that, as I turned the corner to the other path through the locker room and found linebacker Drayk Bowen and interviewed him, you can hear on my recording of that interview Morrison shouting in the background — and other voices, some from other players. Morrison’s anger apparently fueled that in other players.”
After losing 34-23, the Fighting Irish were predictably perturbed. Perhaps it was an overreaction to drudge up engagement about their frustrations on the biggest stage.
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