“I challenged the leaders, I challenged them because right now is going to be a difficult time. Two situations are going to happen. There are going to be people that are saying you aren’t good enough, you guys aren’t good enough. (And) there are going to be people saying, you guys did your job. “Neither of those things can creep into our program. We have to stay together, look internally to say what do we have to do to prevent this?” Those were Marcus Freeman’s thoughts after Notre Dame lost to Marshall last year, falling in his home debut as the Irish head coach and stumbling to 0-2 to start the season. Before long, perhaps by the end of that night, the general consensus was Notre Dame had not mentally bounced back from its 21-10 loss to No. 2 Ohio State in the season opener. The Buckeyes had effectively beaten…
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