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Why Kyle McCord Picked Syracuse and How It Changes Everything I Damon Amendolara
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Jan 20, 2024
Kyle McCord instantly became the highest ranked recruit Syracuse football has landed in nearly 20 years. The Ohio State starting QB has chosen the Orange to play for next season. D.A. dissects why McCord chose a program mired in mediocrity and how new head coach Fran Brown has already changed everything. It's been a long time since SU football was mentioned for its "winning" culture, but McCord and others are already seeing the symbols of change.
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31 31 31. That number is very significant for Syracuse fans. That is the ranking of quarterback
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Kyle McCord in the 2021 national recruiting class. That is the highest ranked player that
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Syracuse football has ever acquired since rankings began in 2006. Nearly 20 years and Kyle McCord is
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the highest of everybody that's donned a Syracuse football uniform. Talk about historic. This is a
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total game changer for Syracuse in many ways but let's start with the first. It is the pipeline
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that SU has desperately needed for a long time. The talent of New Jersey. We know that you can't
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compete in the northeast with Florida and Texas and California for states and regions chock full
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of four and five star kids. In the northeast you're not getting a bunch of future NFL prospects
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or five star talent from the state of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts
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Maine, Rhode Island. There's talent in Pennsylvania but most of that goes to the Big Ten. Syracuse's
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key to any competitiveness to fielding a winning team in a power conference has always been New
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Jersey and will always be New Jersey and Fran Brown comes from New Jersey and guess where McCord
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comes from. He grew up in Mount Laurel, New Jersey just outside of Philadelphia, played at St. Joe's
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Prep in Philly and had offers from Ohio State, Texas A&M, Penn State, Mississippi State and Michigan
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Five star prospect. There's no guarantee that McCord is a dynamic superstar for Syracuse but if you
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want to win at SU you've got to win New Jersey recruiting battles and this one is a huge one
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Number two, because of that New Jersey pipeline, because Fran Brown coached at Temple and coached
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at Rutgers, he has the connections to New Jersey, the high school scene, high school coaches and
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players like McCord. He's been in on McCord or scouted McCord since McCord was in high school
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McCord says he knows a couple of players from Jersey on the Syracuse roster already. He knows
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players who are looking at Syracuse at the transfer portal from New Jersey and Brown is building a
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staff that has credibility in the Garden State. Now look at the attitude of Fran Brown. Brown is not
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meekly sitting in a corner saying we can't compete for so-and-so, we're only Syracuse. He's going for
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everything right now which has changed their approach in the transfer portal. You see the
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portal is the thing that's flattening college football more than anything else. More than NIL
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more than conference realignment. Talent like McCord doesn't want to sit behind other talent
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They want to go elsewhere without penalty to start a career or to end a career. Brown is using that
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to his advantage and his attitude coming from Georgia, being confident, being aggressive has
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certainly won over a lot of kids looking for their next destination. McCord said what coach Fran has
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been able to do over the last few weeks, it speaks volumes. I think the pieces are all coming together
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at the right time. End of quote. When have you ever heard this said about Syracuse football
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Quote, I was looking at schools where I'd have a chance of winning right away and with the pieces
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there I definitely think SU is the best option. Not only does Brown have the New Jersey ties, not
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only does he have the confidence, but he's got a great ability to make you feel as though what you
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are part of, what he's part of, is really special. And in a day and age of the transfer portal where you
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don't only get to promise playing time, but you have to promise something more to bring a kid in
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and to keep a kid there, that they're joining something special, unique, is so valuable. I mean
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Kyle McCord just went 11-1 and started for Ohio State as a five-star prospect and now he thought
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Syracuse was his best option. Man, to say things have changed at SU is a massive understatement
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