Fran's Game 8 Press Conference | Va Tech

[swish7]

Let’s also not forget that the players could have EASILY given up in that game to Pitt and just not put effort into it.

We won the 2nd half of that game and if it wasn’t for some crazy fluky INTs we probably are right in it the whole time.

Give the guy credit for keeping these kids heads into the game in a very lopsided win. We also had a coach who didn’t give up the entire time

No. He doesn't get extra credit for falling so abysmally far behind that his 1st string got to play against their 3rd string. This line of argument dispels whatever pollyannish notions do surface in me from time to time.

 

[JRHEETER]

No. He doesn't get extra credit for falling so abysmally far behind that his 1st string got to play against their 3rd string. This line of argument dispels whatever pollyannish notions do surface in me from time to time.

Huh?

Pitt had starters in deep into the 4th quarter

That’s why Holstein got injured and is now questionable for this weekends game

 

[upperdeck]

We need a run game.

That will be the thing worked on first/second/third

Whether its new people, new positions, portal

we wont throw this well next yr, so we need to making throwing easier.

 

[David321]

I think it’s okay to have concerns but the way that other post was written, wasn’t what you were implying.


I think we all need to remember we are currently 5-2 with a first year head coach, a first ever head coach for that sake, and we have three home games in November.

We have a chance to be 8-4, 9-3 and get a very good bowl game in the first year of a brand new head coach.

Yes, some things absolutely need to be tweeked and cleaned up but at least give the man a full year. He’s literally learning as he goes.

He’s implemented some awesome things and has certainly got some big time recruits to at the very least strongly consider Syracuse. Something we haven’t seen in a really long time.

The cake takes time to bake

I actually agree with both of you even though you're both saying two different things.

 

[SmilinBob]

The sentiment you post is reasonable for sure. However, I wonder if Fran adds any caveat to his very own words he uttered just before the season commenced, specifically relative to the year's "success."

I'm going to show you what success is. See that on my [wall] up there? Do you see that [points his camera to two photos of Syracuse's only two undefeated teams in 1987 and 1959]? 1959. 1987. That's success. That's what [success] is for me because that's why I was hired. I wasn't hired here to be anything less than that. So when that doesn't happen, that's what I feel success is, I put a lot of pressure and weight on myself because I can handle it. To whom much is given, much is required."

"So that's success to me. I'm not going to sit in here, like I told you guys when we were on the show before, I think it was us and coach Robinson, I'm not going to tell you 8-4 is successful." ~ Fran Brown.

I like that. Themz fightin words.

I also see a sense of get better or get replaced...this season or next. NIL and portal will be strongly used this off season.