In the roughly 4,500 words exchanged between Marcus Freeman and the core Notre Dame football media on Wednesday, the fourth-year Irish head coach spent much of his time in the post-spring football wrap-up steeped in the hypothetical when it came to roster management.
And with good reason.
Retiring 75-year-old federal judge Claudia Wilken and the attorneys in the House v. NCAA case who she admonished late last week continue to be part of every college football team’s roster-limbo dilemma.
As in, how big will the rosters be in 2025? And what does that, in turn, mean for scholarship limits?