{"id":776982,"date":"2026-07-22T02:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776982\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:13:08","slug":"marcus-freeman-is-all-in-on-notre-dame-and-doesnt-see-himself-anywhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/776982\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Freeman is &#8220;all-in&#8221; on Notre Dame and doesn&#8217;t see himself anywhere else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as he turned down an opportunity to interview for NFL jobs this offseason, Marcus Freeman left the door open for an eventual move to the pros.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/marcus-freeman-maybe-ill-pursue-nfl-sometime-in-the-future-but-now-im-at-notre-dame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Maybe sometime in the future<\/a>, if it\u2019s the right time and it\u2019s what I think is right for me, then maybe I\u2019ll pursue it,\u201d Freeman said in January.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Freeman made it sound as if South Bend is both his present and his future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7461812\/2026\/07\/21\/marcus-freeman-notre-dame-nfl-future-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I\u2019m all-in<\/a>. I\u2019ve been all-in,\u201d Notre Dame\u2019s fifth-year head coach told a small group of reporters, via Pete Sampson of TheAthletic.com. \u201cI don\u2019t see myself being the head coach or coaching anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freeman admitted in an Esquire magazine story this spring that a job coaching the Ravens or the Steelers would have intrigued him. Both jobs were open.<\/p>\n<p>He stayed anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were times when I wanted to listen to some other people and I did,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cIt confirmed that this is the place I want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NFL interest is unlikely to go away, no matter what Freeman says or how many times he says it. The question is: Will he eventually change his mind about leaving a premier college job for one at the highest level of the sport? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even as he turned down an opportunity to interview for NFL jobs this offseason, Marcus Freeman left the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-776982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}