LOS ANGELES — Marcus Freeman roared.
In the southeast corner of the Los Angeles Coliseum, as Saturday afternoon turned to night, Notre Dame’s head coach let three months of angst go. It was a guttural release, one that had been building since the Irish opened with a signature win at Texas A&M and followed it with a loss one week later that read like a death sentence.
Freeman had already had his ice bath around the 40-yard line, dumped on him by his players after he lifted them up all season. He’d already sung the alma mater a cappella in front of the Notre Dame section. And then he got to let it all out. Primal cheer, primal cheer for old Notre Dame, at a volume that’s endeared Freeman to this roster, to this program, to this school.
“This is a special place,” Freeman said. “We got a really good football team, but we got an amazing university, and I wanted our fans to have that same feeling that we have as players in our program, and so it’s hard to describe that feeling, but it’s one I won’t forget.”
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