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No by mocopdx

- This offseason we beat out Texas A&M and others and paid the highest OC salary in CFB to (ostensibly) upgrade our offense

- Freeman’s first real recruiting class as head coach isn’t even upper class yet

- Our new AD who promises to take greater strides towards a national championship just started the job a couple weeks ago

- Pay-for-play NIL just became legal a month ago, something other schools were doing illegally for a couple years while we obeyed the rules

- Freeman’s team culture and increasing talent level take more than a year or two to bear fruit

Again, these are largely changes that don’t show overnight. The point isn’t that ND *will* win a title in the next few years, it is that the road is being paved to get the program to a point where the opportunity to win a title will be more achievable than it has been in decades.

If Freeman doesn’t succeed at ND, it will be his fault and the excuses will be slim.