Fran Brown postgame vs. Georgia Tech

guys I know I ain't seen my daughter all night so I wanted to hang with her so I want to make sure I bring iy up here but first off I want to just say uh hats off to coach key and um his staff and his team uh hannes their quarterback is really good so um just thankful that we had the opportunity to compete against them and they did a good job and I wish them safe travels going back home uh coach M who's on their staff and Coach uh Buster fogner who I got a chance to coach with we developed a good friendship and I'm just very uh thankful that we got to play against those guys and they competed always to the end and um they were just a really good football team and a well organized and well prepared football team question will start kiss Fran I know earlier in the week there was maybe some things that Keith said that rubbed you maybe a little bit the wrong way it might have sounded like what was your conversation with him like after this game and had that added fuel going into this game I mean it did add fuel he know me so it like it was just like I told I was um I didn't know him I was on the other side of the ball I took that personal and I took it personal when he talked about it wasn't about exes and no it was about coming up here being physical and tough for 4 hours and um we from the Northeast like what you mean by that you know like we don't play football like we're not physical and tough um I took that very personal I took that personal because of what the s means you know Syracuse has been physical forever and I wanted to make sure that it was that will never be said about us like we're not we're not s you know so that that bothered me it rub me the wrong way and the tea and dart is for tough so that's what Daddy what's up you're hungry oh hungry his hair head is Fran fidil obviously played a lot at sort of the second level what does that allow him to do and and when did you guys sort of decide that that was going to be your approach today I gu coach e really uh brilliant when it comes to thinking and uh we know they haven't faced that we know they didn't practice against that and we also felt as though Adell was athletic enough and he's big so it was a difference when most guys are getting hit by 230lb linebacker but now you're getting hit by a 6'5 265 who likes contact so that's the part of it that was um that was why we went and did that give me one second you want to go see mad can you make sure she walk down I don't fall he's fine he's he's a nice person I like that see that she ain't want to give her hand to a guy starting off right yeah but Fel is just uh just he's he's a physical like he's a big dude and he does the right thing when it comes to football and he practiced really hard and we felt this though let's um let's let fodell be the guy running those alleys and make those hits and we knew Haynes knew him they were at Texas A&M together so I was like H's looking across you know who he is so now you go tell them like oh snap he probably say that proba oh snap they got H here it's a it's a difference looking at fidell especially when you lose Marlo wax and now in the next week in the middle of our defense you had to go be able to replace that with someone that would be able to almost be who Marlo is that linebacker he's not a linebacker it was for this defense but we were able to replace Marlo for a quick weekend being his the other guys was able to still stay at their other spots Martin hey coach how you doing I'm good how about you good so last week you said you wanted to send Ryan Day a bottle of champagne yeah so have I told my wife she need to order it all and then needs to go out fast so what are you going to raise the atie what do you want to send him today and can you just talk about Kyle's perform can you talk about Kyle's performance and a 16 yard scramble on Third and three I mean the the third and three scramble meant a lot to our program like I'm always telling Kyle in practice when he'll run inside I mean I'm cussing at him and chasing him you should be running you're afraid to run I want to see the little league kic cour I'm not looking for this college guy that you think I want The Little League football player so when he did that that did something to the program I don't know if you noticed everybody went crazy because we know he can do that I said but you can't spike the ball C you know I mean he can't do that we got lucky that should have been the flag but um it it meant a lot lot for him to do that and ky's a good player you know and ky's a really good player and I think he's showing that consistently and um and I'm so thankful to have him like God's amazing you know I mean I get the opportunity to coach that kid so I'm thankful and blessed that he's here at Syracuse next and Mario back Fran what what kind of uh test over here what kind of uh tests did your team pass in the fourth quarter as Georgia Tech was driving up and and and almost made this a game here they did make it a game I should say I mean it made it a game there's certain things that you want to do like we weren't playing to stop the run we were playing to try to keep the quarterback now in the pocket and do different things so it's a different part of the game it's the monotony of football I mean at the end of any game when it get close and it gets like that I mean you've seen that happen a thousand times now now we got to work on that special teams are go and touch the ball before it hits 10 yards that's bad coaching on Fran Brown nobody else not the special teams coach not none of those guys that's on me to be able to put the right guys in the right place our guys need to be able to be who they are you got some guys that are ball guys some guys that are blockers and one of the blockers went for the football so that's totally me though that's not those kids so don't put that on them but we needed that little test them to get the ball back and then let's see what happens you know and they got to show you that our defense is better than all you guys tried to say they were last week you know Mario I'm back you talked about that physicality part and one guy all the way back sorry one guy being laquinn Allen at the beginning of the year you said he needed to be more physical what did you see out of him today that L quent needed to be more physical yeah he said he said he put on pounds and and yeah but I never said he needs to be more physical he's always been physical I said I want him to be that physical Runner when it comes to the fourth quarter of being able to give him the ball and we want to get on his back because he's one of the leaders of our football team and I think he displayed that today of us being able to just give him the ball give him the ball La quent wants the ball every play like he wants to be the wide out the quarterback the running back every play that's his passion and we're still just to teach him that you're a really good football player L Quin and we need you all year you can't get the ball every down you can't do this every time just give us the opportunity to make let allow you to last throughout the year and um but we were you see when the fourth quarter came who we give the football to right Quin Allen I mean he's our guy that's leader of our football team go to Samantha the third row and then Dan in the first row um right after the game you went over to 's Army and you were fired up with the crowd I want to know why it was important to you to go show your support to them and what this win in particular meant to you cuz they in college like you in college it's 12:00 game you have fun like they deserve that I want to make sure they understand that when I got a chance to go speak to him I went and seen all the freshman and done and I got a son in college so just like imagine when I was in college I never had the chance to be there I was always playing and I just want to make sure they understood that I really appreciate them like just all they've been doing as students and let them know their hard work isn't going unnoticed academically they doing everything they need to and then they get to come to the game and support us and I just want to make sure they knew like we appreciate y'all we heard you guys like it was important like and I'm your coach like I'm their coach it's not just I just don't only coach the players like I'm their coach and I was very thankful for them I'm very happy that they were here they showed support and I wanted to make sure they knew like because of them we were able to pull through there Dan and then Christian Fran game for Syracuse I win over 20 third ranked Georgia Tech in the country just bring me into that because you talked about in the beginning here this team being tough how important Dart is to you now you're two and0 you got to win over a top 25 and then that moment with your son at the end of the game too just what you could say about that well I just literally always worried about us I didn't really pay attention that they was top 25 they told me that this morning I was just like all right bet that's cool just something else for us to go and get um I was just focused on us um what my son my oldest son shot me a text this morning and he uh he just told me how proud he was of me and he he sent me a lot of stuff that literally makes me want to cry just thinking about what he said to me and it was like real like you know when you have a son like my oldest son text me I mean like dang it was like it was heartfelt and then to see his little brother there and just to be happy I was hugging them both cuz he playing right now actually they started at 2:30 and I was just hugging them both and I was just telling them how much I love them and like I just I can't can't wait to get home later I just can't wait for us to play around later on I was just I know it was a lot it was more of a it was a family thing it was a lot that we went through I remember fry being that age and I was at Beller and we were losing a lot of games and he was like being bullied in school about stuff like not really bullied but just always talk to about it and I'm happy Braden don't got to go through that and he just told me how much of a better Coach I was how I'm a good man and how he doesn't mind sharing his dad with all of these other guys cuz he know I'm doing it the right way so my son said that it was like it just meant a lot at the end of the game to be honest Christian Fran congratulations again on the win appreciate that a lot of the players in the beginning of the season in the training camp talked about uh Jeff Nixon's Pro style offense uh why does that style of offense and that system work so well with Syracuse cuz Syracuse got good football players we got a lot of good football players a lot of good kids here and you can't just get two to three people the ball it's a lot of you got to be a to spread the ball around and he's been in the NFL he understands what it's like to be able to give the ball to everyone and um go in and out of different formations we don't ever want to have you have us stuck in one thing and we have to do that and that's what we rely on we don't rely on one guy we rely on the team you know and whatever is rolling we going to keep going until you can stop it and we just like to keep him off balance he's intelligent when I was just the corners coach and uh assistant head coach he was the offensive coordinator so there's an older dude that when I was a player he was coaching against me he coached our strength coach he was our strength coach position coach so he was like you know I've always looked up to coach Nixon when it comes to it so when you able to go get that experience on the team you know I asked him a lot of questions I'm asking coach nuns a lot of questions uh coach Mike Johnson I I got a lot of experience on that offensive side and defensive side but like you get to ask those dudes and they all putting their their little footprint on the offense and just try to I think they're well balanced and um Jeff Nixon's a good dude and you know he's had a great wife you know he has three daughters in college a son playing here I mean dude just do it the right way you know what I'm saying and when guys's doing it the right way I expect God GNA keep blessing them you know hey coach right here in the FR what's up young how you doing how old are you 20 20 Dam you look like you about 16 it's pretty cool I'd rather be young yeah um congrats on the win on Monday you talked about that you need to stop the run to win this game what did you see from your team's improvements in that aspect and also what were some of the steps this week that you guys took to get to that role contact me and practice being a maniac coach e going crazy and then the movements that we done when it came to where we put guys at we came out with a completely new defense uh something that we worked on and just went through and uh coach e had the vision man him and Coach Rob and uh coach sha and coach Williams those dudes was just in this one room and room like throughout as the end of the week I didn't want to go in there no more it just started stinking in the room they was in they just like stayed in there and they was just barricaded in there and they just was going through stuff and like coach we got them we're going to do this we going to do that and they had different things for them um I was very thankful that they did that and um we just was hitting though you know was contact dude said he wanted to be physical and tough from 12 to four so like bet that's that's what I'm talking about like we we from here you know you got Derek Coleman over there how he played basketball physical and tough so I wasn't going to have him come back Dwight Frey come back and we play soft so you know what I'm saying get the opportunity whatever we do around here this Syracuse like so that all that stuff they tried to act like who we were what we about we going to be a physical tough program and we GNA put the S back on the mat last two before we get to the players we go Jesse and then finish in second row here coach the back uh you you mentioned a little bit the the the failed onside kick that Georgia Tech was able to get back I know special teams struggled at times is that kind of the point of emphasis over the next two weeks is kind of Shore that up and it's a it's a lot it's a lot we got to there a lot of things that have to get done um could be a kid too tired got to understand who's on what got to be able to have them dig a little bit deeper you know where's that drive where's that inner like let's go you know what I'm saying it's a Competitive Edge that you got to have at all moments that I don't feel everyone on that team had at that moment to go get it done you know you have one job one Mission and at that moment we didn't get it done they beat us at that so we got to go fix that up um but it's a lot we got to fix up some things on offense we got to fix some things on defense up I mean just all aspects of the game and it starts with me to there's a lot of things I have to go and fix I felt this dog is a little more composed today I only snapped probably like 12 times you know what I'm saying like last week it was like 40 something so I was like 12 so I'm doing better I did a lot better um but we just we got to work on everything we are so far away from where we want to be you know like we're not we're just we're okay team right now compared to where we want to get to we got a long way to go we have a lot to a lot to work on a lot to do so it's a lot that we got to work on for now and last question for Coach right here Fran I want to ask uh just how two fourth and shorts played out for you the one on when you ran the Jet Sweep and converted and got the field goal and then the second one when they were going forward and and uh theill crashed through the the left guard kind of how tell me about the calls and kind of how you saw both those plays on full well the one when we got it we just ate the clock up cuz we didn't get any points or anything off of that one what yazzi Haynes you're saying on that one run that he got we didn't get anything out of that if I'm not mistaken if we did we might have got three points but I don't think we did but with Fel dig it was big cuz it was a possession that we was able to take from them and we kept the ball right there I mean anytime you get the ball on fourth down when you going for it and then you able to stop him cuz when he's going for it he's saying I'm tougher than you I'm about to go for it and then I'm saying when we go for it we're tougher than you and who won the most fourth down this day we did yeah cuz he said he wanted the fight from 12 out of 4 so that's all I was thinking about from 12 four that's why I was very and you know me so it's a big difference when you know who I am and you come at me about toughness like don't do that I took this this game was very personable and then you know that I coach with Kirby SM and mus chant so why would I be why would we not be a tough physical football team that's just what they do and that's what are we about and that's where I was at and I did take that very personal and I want to make sure everyone understands that when you play us just be quiet so then that way we just going to go worry about us throughout the week don't give no ammo to me you give ammo to me I'm coming at you for till all right thanks coach appreciate you y'all be safe