Last week, Notre Dame faced quite an embarrassing situation when the team hosted current Utah Utes offensive coordinator Andy Ludwig on a campus tour and a hockey game with all signs pointing to him becoming the team’s next offensive coordinator. But that ultimately didn’t happen as Notre Dame simply promoted tight ends coach Gerad Parker to offensive coordinator, instead.
It was certainly an embarrassing situation for Notre Dame to very publically pursue a coordinator only to have him stay at his previous program. But Marcus Freeman said he has no regrets about it.
“We’re not hiding the point that we brought a guy in that we wanted, so we took (Andy Ludwig) to the hockey game,” Freeman said according to On3. “He ended up not coming here. That’s OK. I don’t want to hide because I’m worried about, ‘Well, somebody might think that this guy turned us down or this guy said no.’ He made a decision that’s best for him.
“I don’t want to hide the fact of what makes Notre Dame great. If we’re going to bring our top recruits to the hockey game, then why not bring an offensive coordinator candidate to the hockey game? Because why, if we don’t get him, people are going to say, ‘Well, you tried, you lost?’ That’s life.
“We want to put our best foot forward. We’re not trying to hide and say, ‘Hey, let’s interview guys and we don’t want anybody to know because somebody might say you didn’t get the guy you’re going after.’ We won’t hide that. in the future, if we’re interviewing somebody else, guess what, we’re going to put our best foot forward and try to show them everything that’s great about this place. Why hide? That’s not what we want to do.”
At least Freeman is handling the situation with class.
[On3]
