SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Marcus Freeman was born and raised a Buckeye and then lived out the dream of so many kids who grow up in Ohio, earning a football scholarship to play for THE Ohio State University. Over five years at Ohio State — playing linebacker, interning in the athletic department and working as a graduate assistant coach — Freeman’s leadership skills took shape and his meteoric rise to become the head coach of Notre Dame at age 36 began. Advertisement “I don’t know if I could say in one word what (Ohio State) means to me, but I know I wouldn’t be in this situation if it wasn’t for those five years that I spent in Columbus, Ohio,” Freeman told The Associated Press this week. Freeman opens his first season as the Irish coach on Saturday night at the place that launched him, facing No. 2 Ohio State…
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