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The Notre Dame Fighting Irish fell to the Ohio State Buckeyes in the College Football Playoff national championship game, but an incident that occurred after the game seems to be causing quite a bit of controversy.

After all College Football Playoff games, locker rooms from both teams are open for media members to interview players on both sides of the game. National college football writer Dan Wolken of USA Today was not at all happy about the reception that reporters received in the Notre Dame locker room, however.

Shortly after the game, Wolken called out Notre Dame for what he called an “amateur” approach to the media after the loss.

“Bizarre scenes from the Notre Dame locker room, players yelling at reporters, coaches warning people not to ask certain questions,” the USA Today columnist wrote on X. “Amateur hour.”

It was a rather vague post, but he elaborated quite extensively in a post from his verified Reddit account.

In the post, Wolken explained that he had planned to write a story about Ohio State star wide receiver Jeremiah Smith’s game-clinching catch and wanted to speak to Notre Dame cornerback Christian Gray – who was in coverage on the play – about the moment.

Wolken explained that he and other reporters in the locker room were hit with “obscenities” and “pretty threatening” messages.

“When I walked into the locker room, there were a small number of reporters in there,” Wolken wrote on Reddit. “But some of them had already approached Gray and tried to ask about the play. As I walked in, a few players were shouting obscenities at the reporters who had been there and complaining about the fact that Gray was asked about Jeremiah Smith. I noticed that a staff member had walled off access to the locker and said that he wasn’t going to answer questions about the play. So I turned around to leave because there was no point wasting my time and was going to go over to the Ohio State locker room. As I was leaving, a few players said some pretty threatening and insulting things to me as well.”

Wolken went on to blame Notre Dame’s sports information department and the College Football Playoff staff for failing to prepare the Notre Dame players for the open locker room.

“I sent the tweet because it was completely out of the norm, and I think 100% of the blame goes to the Notre Dame sports information staff and the CFP staff for not preparing players for what they’ll face in these postgame situations,” Wolken said.