Hiring Fran Brown as the next Syracuse Orange Head Coach should be encouraging to fans.
Let’s be clear, when the list of names came out last week, a few stuck out as the “safe route” for John Wildhack and his preferred criteria. While fans jumped on the Dan Mullen train and pointed to his SEC success and Syracuse connection, Al Golden stood out as someone that Wildhack could have settled for. I use that word settled intentionally.
With the option to play it safe and hire a former head coach with Northeast ties and the experience building a program at a private institution would check a lot of boxes.