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Newsstand: Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman gives fiery speech after loss to Miami

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Notre Dame HC Marcus Freeman
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The Notre Dame social media team published a post of Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman addressing his team after a 27-24 road loss against the Miami Hurricanes.

Below is a transcription of what Freeman had to say, with the full video embedded as well.

“I don’t care if you didn’t play a snap or you played every down. I don’t care if your coordinator, if you’re a position coach or if your GA (graduate assistant), it doesn’t matter. Everybody points the finger at themselves and say, ‘What could we have done to make sure that we achieved the outcome that we want?’ And that’s what we’ll do, right? Stay together.

“We got the best leadership. This is when leadership has to show, right? Keep us together. We gotta go to work. I’m not saying continue to do the same. We gotta find different ways and better ways of doing it. We can’t beat Notre Dame. And we know there was plays in that game where we beat Notre Dame.

“Credit to them. It’s a good team, top 10 battle. We lost by three. Okay, we lost by three. The first game of the season, right? We got a good ball team. I sat there and watched — I said, ‘Okay, we had to go through a little bit of the bumps in the road, but we got a good ball team, but we gotta get back to work.’ Right? This taste of pain, it hurts. The embarrassment. Okay. We gotta use this as we go back to work. We’re gonna go back to work, right? Stay together, man.”

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