[Giants]

Who?

Better an unknown than a name brand like Meyer or a rising star like the Cincy coach.

I wonder what USB fans think of the hire.

This demonstrates how little you know about the inner workings of ND football. Not that you should know, but the fan base is ECSTATIC about making Freeman the HC. It's kind of analogous to when Harbaugh left. Stanford fans were really happy David Shaw was elevated to HC from being a coordinator on the staff.

Like Shaw, Freeman oversaw an impressive unit and does well on camera.  Freeman, perhaps unlike Shaw, is also known as a fantastic recruiter, though I think in Shaw's case that box was checked by the "who better than a guy who played at Stanford" to sell it. So a lot of similarities between Freeman and Shaw. Plus, they are both Black men if that is materially relevant.

My only perspective is from the POV of a Stanford fanatic, not the inner gizzards of USB football. I consider myself an above-average follower of college football in  general, obviously, not as much as you follow it.

Freeman could be in a lineup with George Clooney, Shaq, Antonio Banderas, and Jackie Chan and I might still have trouble identifying him. He's an unknown to me, and I suspect, to many others with my similar dedication to following college football.

I don't consider it a splash hire for them and am happy about it as a Stanford fan.

I would agree that it is not a splash hire, like the ones USC and LSU made. However, I would suggest that it may be a better hire than those made by the acronyms. Freeman is well-known in the college coaching ranks as a premier recruiter and a guy for whom it was only a matter of time before he got a head coaching job at a top program.  Too many programs are timid and unwilling to make a bold hire, preferring the safe route which inevitably leads to mediocrity.  I think ND demonstrated they are ahead of the hiring curve by making this choice.

[Giants]

Who?

Better an unknown than a name brand like Meyer or a rising star like the Cincy coach.

I wonder what USB fans think of the hire.

This demonstrates how little you know about the inner workings of ND football. Not that you should know, but the fan base is ECSTATIC about making Freeman the HC. It's kind of analogous to when Harbaugh left. Stanford fans were really happy David Shaw was elevated to HC from being a coordinator on the staff.

Like Shaw, Freeman oversaw an impressive unit and does well on camera.  Freeman, perhaps unlike Shaw, is also known as a fantastic recruiter, though I think in Shaw's case that box was checked by the "who better than a guy who played at Stanford" to sell it. So a lot of similarities between Freeman and Shaw. Plus, they are both Black men if that is materially relevant.

My only perspective is from the POV of a Stanford fanatic, not the inner gizzards of USB football. I consider myself an above-average follower of college football in  general, obviously, not as much as you follow it.

Freeman could be in a lineup with George Clooney, Shaq, Antonio Banderas, and Jackie Chan and I might still have trouble identifying him. He's an unknown to me, and I suspect, to many others with my similar dedication to following college football.

I don't consider it a splash hire for them and am happy about it as a Stanford fan.

I would agree that it is not a splash hire, like the ones USC and LSU made. However, I would suggest that it may be a better hire than those made by the acronyms. Freeman is well-known in the college coaching ranks as a premier recruiter and a guy for whom it was only a matter of time before he got a head coaching job at a top program.  Too many programs are timid and unwilling to make a bold hire, preferring the safe route which inevitably leads to mediocrity.  I think ND demonstrated they are ahead of the hiring curve by making this choice.