"Marcus Freeman spent much of this season deflecting questions about expectations and goals... If Notre Dame had lost to Georgia, I would have pressed Freeman on whether the program met that sliding scale of a mark."
"Does Notre Dame win the Sugar Bowl without its masterful management of the transfer portal? Absolutely not. The Irish don't even make the game... winning is expensive. That's because it's worth it."
"But it's not like Notre Dame's transfer haul was some band of mercenaries... Notre Dame functioning as well as it did says as much about the players who stayed as the ones who showed up for this ride."
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