Notebook: Marcus Freeman's strategy for protecting the ND football roster
Perhaps the ugliest loophole in the ever-mutating name, image and likeness game inside the game of college football is something Marcus Freeman is fully prepared to confront. Specifically, pirating players off of Notre Dame’s existing football roster with the lure of lucrative NIL deals and eased by the no-waiting facet of the transfer portal. The first-year Notre Dame head coach has a multi-tiered strategy for the landscape-changing alteration to college sports, just days away from moving into its second year of existence.
