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Fran Brown on Rebuilding Syracuse, Navigating NIL, & Mindset as Nation’s Top Recruiter | I AM NEXT

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🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Fran brown, Syracuse Head Coach, joins Darien Rencher and Mo Hasan. Fran talks with the fellas about his recruiting philosophy, building Syracuse into a powerhouse, viral moments, navigating the craziness of NIL, his passion for his faith and family, and ultimately all the nuances of being a Division 1 Head Football Coach. Great look into the life of one of college football's most prominent voices, and you can see why he is beloved by the Syracuse fanbase and beyond. Fran Brown is definitely one of the realist coaches in the sport today, and somebody you’d want to play for if you want to win on and off the field. Thanks for tuning in, Much love! Be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and follow along for more.

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0:00.0

Yo, what's up everybody?

0:01.0

Welcome back.

0:01.7

Today, we're in Syracuse for Coach Fran Brown, and I'm your host, Deary and Renscher.

0:09.1

We're joined by.

0:10.2

I am Anthony Mohassan.

0:16.1

If you wanted to get a deep dive into college football, this is the episode.

0:20.6

Just because Fran, he gave it raw and uncut and just goes... Plus, but yeah. No, you're right, bro. He keeps it real. He keeps it real. No, I think we've been saying to show, but just how we opened up, to me, is the realest coach in college football. Yeah. Just from maybe up there with prom, but him and prom just, to me, both epitomized.

0:41.1

They're a dude. It makes sense why he's getting on his recruits. Yeah, it shows because when he was at Georgia as assistant coach, number one, recruiting the country. And then you might just say outside looking, yeah, you're at Georgia. Everyone wants to play for him. But then now you go into the Northeast, a program that was left for dead in the ACC. bro, you're in the the like central new york it's cold these kids in the south don't want to be out there and he's stealing recruits from georgia florida clemson you're just like it's crazy bro like how he did it we get the behind the scenes of it and i think it's what you said he's just so real and like that really resonates with kids yeah no i mean like i said i met him a

1:28.9

couple of times really i've been around him a lot of times just this year but every my every interaction

1:33.8

with him is the same man he's like a real dude super genuine honestly funny like he really gets into like

1:40.1

he's cracking jokes like he really is a players coach no doubt even hearing some the players talk about him, you just see why the last season wasn't a flu. Like, it was honestly because he built some of the relationships over the past couple years or his whole coaching career. He cashed him finally with Kyle McCourt. A lot of big time guys they had there and even the guys that came back that could left they last season

2:01.6

it wasn't a flu they got 10 wins even just if you know college football bro 10 wins anywhere yeah

2:06.5

is a hell of a season no i mean they beat miami that was their marquee miami with cam ward the best

2:12.2

player and really kind of in college football outside of maybe like Travis hunter but

2:15.6

leading pastor in college football history so that was a really big win win. They want to build off of that. Now, the schedule is a lot harder. They got, they got a great stage to say at least. They got a great stage to show. And Fran, he gets into his, they're off for the challenge. I mean, he's like, bring it on. They want to smoke. But they got, like, the number two toughest schedule in college football.

2:35.0

No, it's actually crazy.

2:36.3

Yeah, they got the gaunt. But them boys are working. Like, he took that Georgia work ethic and system that we learned that Athens has, and he brought it to Central New York. Like, them boys have no days off, no time off. No, they're going. But it showed like they won 10 games in year one at Syracuse.

2:51.8

If he won six games, I think that would be a massive success. Yeah. If you get to a bowl game in year one at Syracuse, everyone deems you as a massive success. They won 10. Yeah, I think my favorite part about Friends episode was just the non-PR answers. Like, he said some, just some crazy stuff. He was just talking with the boys.

3:08.4

You know what I'm saying?

3:08.8

Like,

3:09.2

as a head coach,

3:10.0

you're thinking like this dude

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