Syracuse football coach Fran Brown says his wife helped Orange land former Ohio State QB Kyle McCord

Kyle McCord got the keys to the offense of one of college football’s most prestigious programs last season at Ohio State after sitting behind C.J. Stroud for two seasons.

On paper the 6-foot-3 gunslinger’s first year under center for the Buckeyes looked to be a successful one as he went 11-1 alongside his former St. Joe’s Prep teammate and wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who is now with the Arizona Cardinals. But at a program like Ohio State that has national championship aspirations and beating “that team up north,” it wasn’t. This led McCord to enter the transfer portal in December before the Cotton Bowl.

He committed to Syracuse and Fran Brown on Dec. 17, a landing spot that surprised some within college football.

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So how did a first-time coach at a school that has underachieved in the ACC in recent years — as Syracuse has finished below .500 in four of the last five years — land a top 10 quarterback in the 2021 recruiting class per his 247Sports Composite rankings?

Brown said he got a little help from his wife, Teara, who worked at a hospital with McCord’s dad, former Rutgers quarterback Derek McCord.

“My wife did that. Her and his father worked together at the hospital. My wife was in school and her clinical was becoming an RN before she became a nurse anesthetist and he worked there also,” Brown said Thursday on the ACC Network at ACC Football Media Day. “And she kept telling me about this kid that was really good in middle school. … One day I got a chance to go and watch him play Little League Football and I was like, ‘Oh snap. He can actually play.’

“And you know everyone hear’s who going to hit the portal, who’s going to hit it. And I (told) our staff, that was the mission if he hit the…

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Author : The Columbus Dispatch

Publish date : 2024-07-25 16:14:10

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