This past week, Notre Dame hired Anthony Treash to serve as the program’s director of analytics. On Saturday, Fighting Irish head coach Marcus Freeman confirmed the hire and explained why he felt it was a necessary addition to the staff. “Obviously, the director of analytics will be a guy that helps you out, using a book during the game. But also, again, a guy that can evaluate trends of prospects, trends of your current team, looking at numbers,” Freeman said. “He’s a guy that’s going to be very beneficial to the addition of our recruiting and our support staff. It was a position, we felt, th…