Notre Dame football head trainer Marcus Freeman is aware of what it is love to be repeatedly requested questions on his crew’s efficiency. This week, he were given to really feel what it was once love to be at the different facet of the microphone when he requested a reporter some hard-hitting questions on kids’s flag football.
Freeman’s son performs for the crew coached by means of Irish Illustrated’s Tim O’Malley, so he took the chance to invite questions all over a press convention the reporter attended.
“My turn?” Freeman mentioned from the rostrum, which ended in laughter in the room in anticipation of what was once about to occur. “Second/third-grade championship game, two trips to the red zone, zero points. One play was a reverse pass that was intercepted in the red zone, you were the offense coordinator on there? Thoughts on the red zone play calling?”
O’Malley spoke back the query in a certified approach, and Freeman appeared proud of the solution. But he nonetheless had yet another query, and this one was once about his son, Nico.
“Last question,” Freeman mentioned. ‘There was once a Nico Freeman in that very same game that had a longer term that was once negated by means of simplest having one flag on. Whose duty is it to verify the younger guy has two flags on?”
O’Malley didn’t backtrack from this query both.
“It would be the guy in the huddle, which would be me but you might be able to blame coach Stanley,” the reporter mentioned.
To that, Freeman joked that he’s passing the blame and will have to personal it. O’Malley then referred to as him out for now not asking concerning the fourth and 5th grade’s “thrilling” championship game. Freeman laughed and congratulated the flag football trainer.
“I was going to finish with congratulations on your two championship wins yesterday,” Freeman mentioned. “Head coaches get the credit sometimes when they deserve it and don’t deserve it but congrats on two wins… I appreciate that. That was a lot of fun yesterday.”
Freeman requested some excellent questions, however he isn’t more likely to transfer careers to journalism any time quickly. The Fighting Irish are ranked No. 14 in the country with a 6-2 document and are contemporary off a 48-20 win over USC.