SOUTH BEND – Busy days are the best days for Notre Dame football junior Jaden Greathouse.
When the wide receiver from Austin, Texas is up before dawn, making his way through the darkness to the Gug and then across the street to the Irish Athletic Center for spring practice, then back across campus for classes before catching his breath around 7 p.m. every night, that’s a busy day. A good day.
It’s when everything stops, like it did in late January after the longest season in program history (16 games) ended in the loss to Ohio State in the College Football Playoff national championship game, that Greathouse feels lost. Like nothing feels right.
When there was no football in January and February, Greathouse wondered, now what?
“I struggled at being a student and not doing anything,” he said. “I’m all about football. It’s in my blood. It’s what I’ve always done.”
The busier Greathouse is, on and off the field, the better. Doing work in the classroom. Doing work in the film room. In the weight room. On the practice field. The more of it he has to embrace, the more he embraces it. Plate full? More, please.
“It gets tough, but that’s what we came here to do – that’s the expectation,” he said. “You have to go to class and you have football and both are going to be tough, but you’re going to become better for it.”
Greathouse is better for it. Better for pushing through much of 2024 when it seemed he wasn’t as effective and wasn’t as involved on Saturdays as maybe he should have been. Not a week passed that someone close to that program didn’t think, watch out for that No. 1, he’s due for a big…
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