Four days removed from a 70-7 embarrassment against Notre Dame, head coach Fran Brown stepped into the press room looking every bit like a man who’d taken the hit himself. After Syracuse’s worst defeat since 1893, rock bottom isn’t where Fran Brown plans to stay. At 3–8, he skipped the self-pity and moved straight to what comes next.

“I’m just developing a program. I would love for them to just stick with me, understand, and bet on us, and you just see all the guys on the field are young,” Brown said on Monday during his press conference as he shifted the conversation toward the future. “Watch what we do next week when signing day comes, watch what happens as we hit the portal, and watch the guys we bring in to backup Steve [Angeli].”

Instead of sitting in humiliation, he made a promise

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