The Decision: Why Did Kyle McCord Choose Syracuse? An Analysis

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00:02 - The question that I have Ben is why Kyle McCord

00:09 decided to go to Syracuse?

00:10 Not a knock, I understand.

00:12 - A big knock.

00:13 - It's not a knock, I'm just saying in regards

00:15 to where they were in terms of the passing offense,

00:18 where they are in regards to the ACC overall,

00:21 seeing what happened with Florida State,

00:23 you would hope that not only does he wanna obviously start,

00:26 but potentially win a national championship.

00:29 And I understand maybe he was being pushed out

00:31 by Ryan Day in terms of Columbus supposedly

00:35 not giving the voter confidence,

00:37 but that's a downgraded move in my opinion.

00:40 I mean, it's great for Syracuse

00:42 if they could build talent around him,

00:44 bad move for Kyle McCord.

00:46 - Oh, see, this is, of course it's a downgrade.

00:51 He was not good enough to be the Ohio State quarterback.

00:55 I think that is okay to say.

00:57 CJ Stroud, Justin Fields, this is a position

01:01 that where you get to play with basically guaranteed

01:04 at worst one first round wide receiver, usually multiple.

01:08 When was the last time that team didn't have

01:10 two NFL wide receivers inside their starting lineup?

01:13 I have no idea.

01:14 You could probably go, it doesn't even--

01:17 - I don't know if it goes back to the days

01:18 before Ted Ginn in the late 2000s, honestly.

01:21 - So for Kyle McCord, and look, I've had a little bit

01:24 of fun kind of, 'cause I know you're excited

01:26 about Syracuse's recruiting and it's nice

01:29 that they landed a guy with Ohio State pedigree,

01:31 but the reason McCord is at Syracuse

01:34 is because McCord is a Syracuse level player.

01:36 I know he was highly sought after

01:38 with I think the recruiting numbers.

01:40 I think some of that probably due to playing

01:42 in high school with Marvin Harrison Jr.

01:44 And all of his collegiate success felt like

01:46 it was tied to Marvin Harrison Jr.

01:49 I don't, again, for Syracuse, it's a name.

01:52 And I think considering right now the selling point

01:54 of all of your off-season hires appears to be,

01:57 this is based on me reading truly your tweets,

01:59 their ability to recruit, getting a big name

02:02 is great for the brand.

02:03 But I don't even, Kyle McCord is the what?

02:05 Best quarterback in the ACC next year.

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