Urgency and Progress Spurs Notre Dame Towards Two Ranked Opponents

Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman (Photo by Robin Alam/Icon Sportswire)Every time the Irish come out of the Notre Dame Stadium home locker room, they are reminded to play like a champion.

Playing like a champion requires attention to detail and urgency. Yet, for some reason, even with that frequent and ubiquitous reminder before taking the field, the Irish have been inconsistent at home.

Head Coach Marcus Freeman has preached “urgency” the last few weeks in practice. The need to have a sense of urgency the “minute we step onto the practice field. The minute we come out of the locker room.”

That urgency was evident last Saturday against UNLV in the Irish’s 44-21 beatdown of…