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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- When Fran Brown saw the Syracuse job come open last November, he watched a clip of athletic director John Wildhack ticking off what he would be looking for in his next head coach.
Ties to the northeast? Brown could check that box off 10 times over. Head-coaching and coordinator experience on the Power 5 level? Brown had neither of those, but in his view, those qualifications did not matter. He wanted the job. So he picked up the phone.
He called Wildhack himself.
"What John said he was looking for early on, experience and all these things, I'm like, 'He doesn't really know what he's looking for.