TBIYTC. Sports Director for @cnycentral |Contact me: samanthacrostontv@gmail.com| Cohost @whymetspod @theozpod |@NewhouseSU🍊& @colgateuniv alum.
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NEW: An SU Football spokesperson tells me last year’s graduating class ended up with a 100-percent success rate of players either in NFL camps or having employment in their field of study by July👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
COOL: Fran Brown says SU Football has a program called "Syracuse 60," which guarantees players a job within 60 days of graduating.
"It's important that I get you a job making meaningful money inside of your major," he said.
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COOL: Fran Brown says SU Football has a program called "Syracuse 60," which guarantees players a job within 60 days of graduating.
"It's important that I get you a job making meaningful money inside of your major," he said.
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Fran Brown says he pays his son's tuition in full so that he can give a scholarship to another player👏
"It's easy for me to pay, and then get another kid, right?"
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Fran Brown says he has a plan in place to keep Steve Angeli on track that includes rehabbing, focusing on his mental health, academics, and being a continued part of SU Football's success from the sidelines.🍊🏈
"He's pretty much going to be a GA for the next 9 months."
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INTERESTING: Fran Brown says every Wednesday from 2:30-3, his team is working on financial literacy. And every player will have an LLC.
"All the players that left, they'll be coming back. And that's how you build a program, not just a football team."
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NEW: Duke's head coach, Manny Diaz, praises Fran Brown👏
"What Fran Brown has done there, to have 13 wins in one season and less than a month, considering the state of where that program was when he got there, is honestly one of the best coaching jobs in the country." 🍊
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QC/Offensive Specialist Josh Gattis was fired up right before halftime with Collins, and then continued the conversation in a calmer manner on the way into the locker room:
The Orange Zone
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Like this tweet if you think the NCAA hates fun
NEWS: The NCAA has denied the proposed spring game between Colorado and Syracuse❌
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“Send Ryan day a bottle of champagne for allowing us to get Kyle McCord” is a BAR
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LMAO: Fran Brown on SU as 17.5-pt underdogs vs. Clemson:
"Vegas said Canelo [Álvarez] was about to win...[Terrence] Crawford said different. I've been the underdog my whole life."
He also shouted out a song: Hate It or Love It by The Game ft. 50 Cent
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Fran Brown on the potential of playing Colorado in the Spring Game: "This would be good for us to be the first to do it at two historical schools...and two African American men too."
- Says it's in the NCAA's hands now
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"I'm not an easy coach...sometimes guys go to the portal because this is too tough for them." 👀
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Fran Brown's message to recruits after the upset win: "If you want to come and win a national championship because that's all I think about is being able to do that, then you should come here."
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NEW: Brown said his players have switched from writing weekly schedules to daily schedules. He says he checks them every day.
"We gotta be a little more mature right now. I don't think our guys can truly handle looking at the entire week."
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Player update: Coach Fran Brown announced at the DART Party that Trebor Pena is coming back next year and will be a captain
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Tylor Megill has a message for Mets fans:
"Stay with us. Stay positive...things are clicking, it's just playing a full nine innings of complete baseball."
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GREATER THAN FOOTBALL: Fran Brown says if the team goes to Colorado, they'll do a financial literacy lesson and academics session.
"How you do anything is how you do everything," he said (that's one of his mantras).
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Cortland Football Head Coach Curt Fitzpatrick after @CortlandFB Cortaca win. "For small college football, this is as good as it gets...these guys don't make a dollar playing football."
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This guy is really special man. @KingjosephE used his NIL money to get everyone on the Syracuse Women’s Basketball team Nike’s.
KingJoseph Edwards
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Quote of the day was Fran Brown talking about what Lequint Allen's overtime TD meant: " "Lequint's run was for everyone who has anything to do with Syracuse...it was for history."
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When people ask me what it felt like today in the JMA Wireless Dome, this is my response🍊:
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Syracuse Football has warmup shirts that say "4th&9" and "4th&1" referencing two plays that led to losses for SU.
Fran Brown hasn't forgotten that.
"I want to remind them that two plays changed our season."
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INTERESTING: Fran says he doesn't care about the challenging schedule ahead of him for now. At the moment, he's focused on other things.
"I'm focused on us getting a 3.2 GPA in the classroom," he said. "When I got here, we had a 2.97 overall as a team. So now, we want a 3.2."
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SYRACUSE WINS ITS FIRST GAME IN DEATH VALLEY🍊
All love between Fran Brown and Dabo Swinney🤝
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This is a thing of beauty nitter.app/JudgeEnjoyer/status/18…
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Fran Brown on recruiting local kids: "What I have to do is to get these guys to grow up loving Syracuse. From 5 years old, I should be the first person they talk to. So by the time they're 15 or 16 years old, it's already a no brainer where they're going."
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Between assembling his staff and recruiting, Coach Fran Brown (@FranBrownCuse) also found time to attend the Van Duyn Elementary School Coat Drive:
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I am thrilled to announce that I’m being promoted to the Sports Director of CNY Central‼️Thank you to my boss @SeanCarrollNews for the opportunity and to the greats who came before me @TommySladek and @NikoTamurian. To my partner in crime, @ashleywensk, we’re just getting started
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This is awesome! Cuse football team showing up to watch the high schoolers on their bye week
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Fran Brown spoke about why teaching his athletes how to be men is so important. "All those young men will have the opportunity to marry up like I did."
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Fran Brown talks about the importance of the DART philosophy (Detailed, accountable, relentless, tough):
"I know some 45 year olds that make the same mistakes that 17 year old make because there were no corrections during that time. Kids pick Syracuse so they can be developed.
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10 wins including a bowl win. DART. A complete revitalization of the program. Syracuse fans will NEVER forget the 2024 season.
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My prediction from this past Tuesday: Syracuse beats No. 6 Miami 42-38. @AshleyWenskTV and @rach_culver can back me. My first-ever perfect prediction on @TheOZpod
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Cam Newton talks about Fran Brown on his podcast:
“He has a lot of relatability.”
4th&1 with Cam Newton
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Fran Brown on receiving the Paul Bear Bryant Newcomer of the Year Award: "We looked back into the past, and saw that Syracuse was a football machine at one point. So we said, let's start this back up again: why not now?".
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Can we talk about the fact that Jim Boeheim nailed 3 out of 4 final four picks including NC State
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NEWS: Fran Brown has been named the Paul “Bear” Bryant National Coach of the Week after his win against Clemson.
Brown was also named the Bear Bryant Newcomer Coach of the Year after last season’s 10-3 record👏🏻
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Kyle McCord:
- 4,000 yard passer
- All-time Syracuse QB leader for passing TDs in a single season
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Talk about no freaking quit. I still don’t think we’ve seen this team’s full potential. But it takes a certain mentality to pull off a comeback like this. AWESOME bounce back win. Shot by @AshleyWenskTV
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Fran Brown required his players to do 30 hours of community service each this time last year. It turns out they are very committed to it! Shoutout to the @CuseFootball team for showing up today and helping to raise 32K for families in need in CNY!
While interviewing Fran Brown (@FranBrownCuse) for the Salvation Army Telethon event, we discussed how important community service is to him. His players will be required to do 30 hours of community service each:
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I was today years old when I found out that Syracuse Men's Lacrosse made 22 consecutive semifinal appearances and went undefeated in 25 quarterfinal games from 1983 to 2009. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE?
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This is pretty nuts. LeQuint Allen went to speak to students at Manlius Pebble School and told them his schedule...I think few people realize how much these student-athletes do throughout the day:
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INTERESTING: Syracuse Football Head Coach Fran Brown says not all money is good money.
"[We want to] work with people with a good heart that want to see Cuse win." 🍊🏈
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"The major loss was losing Adam Weitsman," said Lawrence Moten today on the Orange Zone Podcast. Fans, do you agree with this take?
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Have to give some credit where it's due. After flying back from Pittsburgh last night, Eddie Lampkin and JJ Starling from @Cuse_MBB were up at Clary Middle School today, where the Syracuse PAL hosted a Basketball clinic for kids. Look how much it means to the kids♥️
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Sam Holland
In light of SU’s new DL pickup, I want to direct your attention to this quote from Fran Brown. Said after Miami game he’d be recruiting bigger kids. “If you want to win a national championship because that’s all I think about, you should come here.”
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First year covering Syracuse Football in the books w my partner in crime and what a year it was🧡🍊🏈 Thank you so much to everyone who has followed along — you are who we do it for!
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Mike Tirico speaks on the importance of Fran Brown including SU alumni in the program🏈🍊
"Essential, and appreciated, and thankful, and awesome," Tirico said. "Fran Brown has people skills that are unique, different, real, genuine, and I think very valuable."
@FranBrownCuse
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This man just set the record for the most single-season passing yards in the ACC. One of one
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Coach Brown with an interesting perspective here on navigating the balance between helping players stay motivated and being honest with them about how much playing time they deserve:
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Fran and Kyle McCord at Syracuse together:
- 9-3 record
- Beat No. 6 Miami
- Had fans more excited about the program than they had been in decades
"I told him I needed him," Brown said. "I thought Kyle was one of the best quarterbacks in the country."
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Babers on what he wants from Cuse fans in the game against Virginia🍊: “Friday night at 7 o’clock, we need to bring it. The whole country needs to know exactly what it’s like to go to school here, and be a part of what’s going on in the Loud House.” @CuseFootball @CoachBabersCuse
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This quote from FB's presser is more revealing than anything said about football. A VT kicker was warming up on the field while the SU Band was playing (and has since apologized). "There's certain things you don't do," Coach Brown said. "And you don't disrespect Syracuse's band.
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Fran Brown's message to the fans:
"I take all the blame...I just really apologize for the way we've played, and we've came out and competed and haven't been able to win for a month straight so, we gotta make a change...we'll get it together, I know we will."
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Fran Brown’s mentality: no one gets left behind
My favorite Fran Brown moment of the day
Brown & some of his staff were present at KingJoseph Edwards' community event.
Brown was walking in when he saw a boy lingering alone by the door. He stopped. Said "you're going to hang with me" and took him around the event.
WATCH:
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“If you don’t adapt to the culture, you can’t play here…Sometimes they [players] go into the portal because it’s too tough for them [at Syracuse].
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Coach Brown was asked about Kyle saying coming to Syracuse was the best decision of his life. His response: “Outside of my wife and kids it was one of the best decisions of my life too.”
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I’m celebrating one year as Sports Director at @CNYCentral‼️ Excited for what year 2 has in store!
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When recruits ask what it feels like to play in the Dome, show them this video as a resource⬇️
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I will remember Lawrence Moten as a storyteller. This was the best Lawrence Moten story I ever heard:
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COOL: Terrell’s Potato Chips is partnering with Syracuse QB Kyle McCord on a unique new NIL deal...introducing his own Terrell’s Honey BBQ/ Sharp Cheddar Potato Chips. You will start seeing them in area Grocery and Convenience Stores:
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Fran Brown on Kyle McCord: "He should be the first one taken [in the draft] when it comes to Quarterbacks." Says he'll be the next Brady.
Brown says he doesn't understand why others don't feel the same. "Since he played for me, I think they're hating on him a little bit."
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DID YOU KNOW: Fran Brown met with Rickie Collins for two days straight during the recruiting process.
"I met with his mom, his family, I talked with some people in Baton Rouge that know he grew up, I get deep into the core of who they are."
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Fran Brown believes Kyle McCord should be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft.
"Around here, he's like Baby Jesus," he said. "Kyle does the right thing."
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Syracuse Booster Adam Weitsman took 3 kids with the Make-A-Wish program to tonight’s game at the JMA Wireless Dome
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Meteorologist Peter Hall
WOW: Syracuse Football Class of 2026 commit Jimmy Gregg told me that over the weekend, Fran Brown had the recruits to his home on Father's Day and had GIFTS for the Fathers of the recruits🤯
"He didn't need to spend that time with us, but he did," Gregg said.
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Kyle McCord was freaking LOCKED in at the combine nitter.app/JudgeEnjoyer/status/18…
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Gary gait with a heartfelt opening statement after SU's overtime win against Harvard in the Dome:
"Our guys believed in each other, trusted each other, and found a way to win. As a coach, that makes you so proud to have guys that don't give up." 🥹🍊
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Fran Brown has a back-to-business mentality even after beating the No. 6 team in the country. "Let's stay focused and continue to be better men."
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FOX College Football
A valuable lesson for new journalists tonight: don’t dab once you think the hit is over!
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Fran Brown at a basketball game: removes trash. Just a truly good human
Cuse Sports Talk
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Coach Brown says he believes his purpose is to help others. "I go outside...I might see someone going without. I'm the one that's going to pull over and make sure I take care of them, talk to them...sometimes that conversation can change their entire life."
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