Notre Dame and head coach Marcus Freeman are coming off their biggest regular season win at home in quite some time. The Irish had their backs against the wall and needed a win over the visiting, No. 1 ranked Miami Hurricanes in South Bend this past weekend and they got the job done. Notre Dame now ranks inside of the top three in the AP and Coaches Poll and await their rankings by the CFP which will be released tomorrow night. Today, Freeman put the finishing touches on their win over the Hurricanes and turns his attention to the Boston College Eagles. 

You can watch the entire press conference here: 

Here are some of Freeman's main quotes from today's press conference: 

"It's easy to say 'that's not going to be us' but it's a real thing," Freeman shared. "If you do enough studying on it, there's an issue, after big wins, teams having let-downs the next week. I even did a little study on what the coaches say after they lose and it's very common themes. It's 'we weren't disciplined', 'we didn't have a great week of prep', 'we're not mature.' It's our job as coaches to make sure we're prepared and you don't blame the players. You mandate that you prepare in a way that doesn't allow us to have a let down." 

"Number one, he's gifted," Freeman said of the sophomore left tackle. "He's a talented football player. He came in with a lot of high expectations because of his ranking. But he's gifted and he works and he's been really consistent. That's the thing about Will [Black], he's been very consistent in his play on Saturdays and his approach to practice. Him and [Anthonie] Knapp, you see the chemistry of those two guys continue to improve; the ability to handle different looks or different combinations. He's really doing a heck of a job being our left tackle. But the thing you appreciate the most is the consistency in his play." 

"Part of his issues from the game were, one, technique," Freeman shared. "We got to play with better technique. This is no different from a quarterback. Not all plays that were caught on him weren't all his fault. We had a couple of situations where we needed our safety to be a little bit more aggressive. It's hard, you're out there playing on an island to the field, you're playing man and they're throwing slants, okay, I'm going to get overly aggressive on a slant.

"Here goes a double move or here goes a fade ball which was ultimately one of the touchdowns," Freeman continued. "We got to help him with our safety play, at times, but continue to mix up those calls. We should have identified a little bit earlier that they're trying to go after the guy that hasn't been playing. Let's get him a little bit of relief and be able to adjust which we ended up doing. But there's a lot of confidence we have in Mark [Zackery] and he knows that." 

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