re: Did these kids not watch the ND/ OK St bowl game

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Brian Kelly was coaching them, they would've won easily.

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I don't know about easily but I do think they may well have won a close game, in part because of Kelly's experience but also because Kelly still being HC for that game may have meant Freeman was the DC. Though in truth, Kyle Hamilton opting not to play and rest for the draft may have been the one, single biggest factor that could have swung the outcome.

And it's also perhaps worth bearing in mind that as well as all the other distractions around Freeman at the time of the game (trying to assemble his first staff, etc.) his DC in that game is now the DL coach at Michigan.

ND's new DC is a guy with years of HC and DC experience in CFB and whose last game as a coach was the Super Bowl. I suspect he'll be an upgrade on the Interim DC at the Fiesta Bowl.