You already know that a whole bunch of Ohio State Buckeyes beat guys and fans are Mad Online about some words Marcus Freeman shared with click farmer indefatigable journalist Dennis Dodd comparing the academic burdens placed on players for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish with his alma mater. While Freeman has since attempted to play the diplomat and clean things up, I’m here to say: you don’t have to, Marcus. You did nothing wrong.
As college football fans, we live in a ridiculous world. A world where coaches of two-loss teams minutes removed from blowing their biggest game of the year on fake-punt shenanigans bitch and moan about undefeated teams making the playoff over them, and are taken seriously; where schools tote national championship claims from seasons in which they lost the actual championship game and receive little to no flak for doing so; where title-winning coaches whine about the challenges of out-recruiting FCS schools; and, most amusingly for Notre Dame fans, where coaches grind on recruits unabashedly on TikTok.