Freeman was an idiot savant's choice. But even blind squirrels find a nut now and then.
It is not as if he was the best available candidate available to ND. He was the lazy and easy way out for Swarbrick. Swarbrick felt the need to protect the recruiting class, so he offered Rees the OC job and then offered Freeman the Head Coach job.
There were any number of qualified candidates, specifically two, Fickell and Campbell, who might have been head coach at ND. There is no question that Fickell would have taken the job if offered. If fact there was some chatter that the prime reason Fickell isn't our current head coach is that he wanted to wait until after the completion of Cinn's season.
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