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What did Fran Brown Show at the Spring Game?
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Apr 27, 2024
Fran Brown has created plenty of excitement since taking over the Syracuse job. What did we learn from him after the Orange Spring Game? Ethan Frank discusses.
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Fizz Nation Spring Game in the books for Syracuse football
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Fran Brown bringing back some alums. Zaire Franklin, Hassan Redick was there
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So huge, huge for the program. Now you got NFL stars coming up for the Syracuse Spring Game
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And I know there are a lot of great things, offense, defense, special teams wise, the competitiveness of the game
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Spring practice has been really good for these guys. I'm still a little on edge about when it comes to
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what actual in-game coaching is gonna be like from Fran Brown. We know this guy, he's got, I mean
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the tiniest bit of coordinator experience, but mostly has been a position coach and a recruiter
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And he's filled out his staff in a way that doesn't really have college head coaching experience either
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When you look at Jeff Nixon as the offensive coordinator, coming from a position coach role with the Giants
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Elijah Robinson as a position coach at Texas A&M being the defensive coordinator
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You got Nunzio Campanelli still on, but I am concerned about game management
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This was something that we saw in the Dino Babert era that was a huge, huge problem for Syracuse
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And it's been a long time since you were confident in the guy on the sidelines
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How is he gonna use his challenges? How is he gonna use his timeouts? How is he gonna substitute
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Things of that nature. How is he going to manage a game when it comes to play calling and everything
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that goes into being a head coach and being a CEO, not just focusing on coaching the defensive backs
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You can talk about Kyle McCord playing as good as you want to
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He's playing against his own defense. Last year's spring game pointed out a lot of flaws
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on the roster. This year, a lot more positives, but I feel like the underlying questions with this team
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and they have an easier schedule, which is a really good thing
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but there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered
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when this season starts in September. So we'll see what happens with Syracuse football
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It'll be a summer full of practices, and we'll have coverage for you on theorangefiz.com
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as always. So FizNation, we'll see what's going on with Fran Brown and the Orange come September
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