MF said in his PC, ND lost because his team believed the hype......
...few years back, I was listening to a podcast featuring Michael Irvin - he was talking about how when Jimmy Johnson was coaching him at UM. He said Johnson (especially after a "huge win"), the following week of practice (especially going against a "cupcake") was brutal....Johnson's practices were even more physical than the week before and that he would be maniacal getting in peoples' faces going on about all of the mistakes they made the previous week, telling everybody that they're not as good as the media is making them out to be. etc....Irvin said at the time, him and teammates, couldn't understand why he was like that. Irvin said he later came to realize, that what young players with such god-given talent, need in order to keep their focus....note, believe it or not, Jimmy Johnson has a degree in psychology! Maybe MF should reach out to JJ???
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Only needs to talk to his mentor, Holtz
Holtz said you are never as good as you think you are when you win, and you are never as bad as you think you are when you lose. Every week and every team is different and you have to be focused on who you are playing next and not the next week or two. You don’t have to get in players faces but you do have to challenge them. You can tell if guys are a little too aloof.
This is turning into a therapy session for us. We're having an epiphany of insight about Marcus.
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There is nothing "therapeutic" about anything on here since 3:30 Saturday.
This place has been a cesspool of whining, finger pointing and utter ignorance.
Gotta love ND "fans" on this board, pure comedy gold.
Therapy requires "mourning" past losses... so you can move beyond them.
Stewing on them accomplishes nothing.
I'm already enjoying the prospect of this week's game and the possibility of redemption.
I'm with you. Thanks for some much needed optimism.
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Well said, Go Irish!!!
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Whose fault is that? Just own it. The failure is mine.
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that's your job coach, make sure team is ready
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I read practices this week WERE physical...
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Freeman should have said: "It's on me. I didn't prepare us well enough to win."
It's Freeman's job to motivate and generate focus after a good win. Yeah, the players were part of the let down, but that should be dealt with offline away from the cameras.
"It's on me. I don''t know what I'm doing"
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Since when is beating a marginal top 25 team hype worthy?
Good win but hardly a place to hang your hat.
If this is true that sets a pretty low bar for success. Just win and like u have done it before
What hype? They get by A&M at Kyle Field and suddenly they're the archetypal program?
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No vintage Public Enemy on his playlists...?
Most importantly, MF believed the hype.
He mailed in the prep. He failed to recognize the team's cockiness and his own arrogance.
He disrespected NIU by saying after the TAMU game that he didn't know who we were playing the next game.
As the HFC, does MF ever hold himself accountable?
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The gold standard only applies downward not up. Come on u know that
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I’ve been wondering how MF would grade himself as a coach? Not recruiter, but coach.
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Uses a lot of 'Us' and 'We' but not much 'Me'..
I don't think accountability is really his issue though. He just hasn't developed into a good HC yet, three years into ever doing it.
We'll have to decide at some point, how long we're willing to wait to find out if the shot in the dark hire develops or not.
I really don't blame Freeman, he was offered a great opportunity and bet on himself in accepting it. I blame the fans, students, and players who clamored for an Inexperienced fledgling DC to be our HC because they 'liked' him and the incompetence of the ND Admin/AD to buy into this hype and hire a completely Inexperienced guy as the Notre Dame HC....AGAIN!
MF would be a great 5th grade flag football coach. I don't see him getting maniacal about anything.
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Re: MF said in his PC, ND lost because his team believed the hype......
There are similar stories about Lou Holtz acting in this way after a big win with a cupcake on the schedule. The players hated Navy week (back when we were beating the daylights out of them every year) because nothing they did in practice would be good enough.