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Kyle McCord Announces Transfer To Syracuse · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, December eighteenth, I'm your host,
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  tom Or. The Cotton Bowl game against Missouri is in eleven days,
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  the game against Michigan in three hundred and forty eight days. This is something
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  of an emergency podcast, talking today about the transfer of former Ohio State quarterback
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  Kyle McCord to Syracuse. McCord, of course, went in the transfer portal
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  shortly after the Buckeyes season ending regular season ending loss to Michigan, who sort
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  of projected a bunch of different places, and now he has found his new
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  home. It is the Syracuse University Orange and their new head coach Fran Brown.
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  Tonny Gerdaman of bucke Huddle dot Com joins me, Tony. This is
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  one of these situations where it's a new coaching staff, the new recruiting class
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  isn't signed yet, the transfer portal stuff is largely still up in the air,
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  the coaching staff is still they don't know who the offensive coordinator is going
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  to be. This feels to me like this is just a place where Okay,
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  Kyle McCord is going to get to start for quarterback for Syracuse next year
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  and that seems like that that was the primary driving force between, you know,
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  behind him leaving, and it's the primary driving force behind where he landed.
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  Yeah, and I guess for him also he gets to be in the
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  Tri state area, be close to home, you know, for the for
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  the Philadelphia native. But yeah, you look at what Syracuse. They're losing
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  their starting quarterback. So this is an opportunity where you go in and they're
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  not bringing you into be anybody's backup. And this he wanted to guaranteed starting
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  spot and seems to me that he has gotten that. And it is very
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  interesting. I wonder if there's some feeling of we're all in this together because
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  we're all new so you're all experiencing it together. Quarterback coaches, head coach.
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  Who knows what else is going to happen for Syracuse in the portal and
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  in recruiting. But you get what you you know, you get what you
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  set out to get, which is a starting spot with I would say a
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  very little competition for that spot. And of course, no loyalty in terms
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  of fran Brown having any loyalty to anybody. That is, you know,
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  I recruited this quarterback. He's been with me if he's stuck it out for
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  three years, it's his time. There's none of that. Everybody's new,
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  everybody's carpetbagging, basically, and so you go with the guy that you you
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  know, told could start basically. Boy, you you saying that Syracuse is
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  close to South Jersey is one of those tell me you've never driven across the
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  New York Through Way all the way across New York without telling me you've never
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  driven across the New York Through Way all the way across New York. Not
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  not close. Not a lot of exciting stuff between point A and point B
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  either, But that's okay. He will, he will, he will be
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  the starting quarterback. And you know, this is a situation where I mean,
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  yes, Syracuse has somewhat recently been you know, involved in the story
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  of a starting NFL quarterback in Tommy Davido. That's not where he ended up.
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  And that's you know, we'll see how long the Tommy Davido, the
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  Tommy cut Let's magic lass with the Giants. But this is a spot where
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  Kyle McCord is significantly better than the typical Syracuse quarterback. That's you know,
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  this is a you know, there are always these conversations about, you know,
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  is the transfer portal going to be better or worse for teams at the
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  top of the sport or the bottom of the sport, or the middle of
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  the sports. Syracuse kind of squarely in the middle of the sport. This
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  is one of the situations where this is a really beneficial thing for Syracuse because
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  this is a better quarterback than they would typically get and for a STA head
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  coach who's just starting out his career, that's going to be you know,
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  that's going to make twenty twenty four Syracuse football a lot more potentially interesting and
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  exciting than it might have been otherwise. As they said off the top,
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  though, it's not super clear what kind of offense they're going to be running
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  and what Kyle McCord is actually signing up for here there the brand Brown is
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  a defensive coach. He is a secondary coach for Georgia. He has never
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  been a coordinator, and he's on the defensive side of the ball regardless.
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  It's not like he has any kind of real strong schematic ties there. And
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  the projected offensive coordinator is New York Giants running backs coach Jeff Nixon, So
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  you know, Tony, can you go into some great detail on the exact
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  scheme that you're expecting the New York Giants running backs coach to run if he
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  is in fact hired as the head coach or the offensive coordinator at Syracuse.
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  Take as much time as you need. Oh boy, no, Tom,
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  I think I'm done. Thank you for having me. I will say together,
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  they spend time together Nixon and Fran Brown at Baylor in the twenty seventeen
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  twenty eighteen era, and so maybe there's some something there, although you know,
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  I don't know how much of that era is worth writing home about.
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  You know, they did throw the ball Charlie Brewer as a three thousand yard
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  passer, so they have that. You know, just looking at the twenty
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  eighteen season, for instance, they do for thirty eight hundred yards, So
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  there's some offense there at least. Maybe I don't know where that tree ends.
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  If there's somebody else coming in terms of a quarterbacks coach from this realm,
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  but I think the the these defensive coaches, you just never know whether
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  it's gonna be. I want, like Gray Ciano, I want conservative approach.
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  I just want to milk the clock or if it's a defensive coaches like
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  I want to I want an offensive coordinator that does that runs an offense that
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  I hate facing. You know that where you have the the aggressive coordinators who
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  want that kind of pain, pain in the butt offense, like Ryan Day
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  wants a defense that he hates facing that sort of thing. And so you
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  know, we'll see what happens. I know Garrett Schrader, their three year
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  starting quarterback, was also a running threat. I don't see that continuing for
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  Syracuse. So but but the good news is for them is they have a
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  legitimate blue chip quarterback coming in and Ohio State fans can say what they want,
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  but you know, com Cord through for three thousand yards at Ohio State,
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  much better touchdown and interception ratio. This is about as big of a
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  win for Syracuse as we have seen boy in years, maybe since they beat
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  Clemson in like twenty seventeen or something. Yeah, and they are set up
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  to start the season with potentially a number of wins just looking at their twenty
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  twenty four schedule. The first time he jumps out is me for about the
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  seventeenth time forgetting that carrier is no longer the sponsor of their home stadium.
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  It is no longer the Carrier Dome. It is now the JMA Wireless Dome.
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  And the old joke about them not having air conditioning in the dome sponsored
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  by an air conditioning company makes me wonder if they have Wi Fi in the
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  JMA Wireless Dome. I don't know. We'll all find out together on Saturday,
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  August thirty first, when they open the season with the Ohio Bobcats at
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  home at Army, then holy Cross at home, than anent neutral site game
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  against Yukon with the site and city still TBD, and then at Bustin College,
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  a conference game at Cal in conference game Syracuse at Berkeley, California.
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  Welcome to twenty twenty four. I mean, you're now halfway through your regular
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  season and I have not seen a you know, I don't see a Oh
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  they're not going to win that one. They're not going to win all of
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  them, but they might win most of them. And then it gets a
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  little more real at NC State at pitt home for Georgia Tech, home for
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  Miami, home for Stanford, yes, the Stanford Cardinal also now a conference
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  rival of Syracuse, and then finally Virginia Tech. I mean that's that's a
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  pretty manageable schedule. You've got an AC schedule. You're not playing ACC schedule,
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  you're not playing Florida State, you're not playing Clemson, you're not playing
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  North Carolina. I mean, that's a season where you could tell me Syracuse
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  goes seven and five, eight and four, maybe nine and three. I
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  mean, there's obviously a lot that needs to happen between that and now,
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  but you know, you can see how this could be something that turns out
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  to you know, McCord goes there, finishes eight and four, gets himself
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  drafted. I mean, you could see definitely where this makes sense from her
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  cords end. Yeah, and the the ACC schedule thing, and once they
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  have all the dates set up, you know, we'll we'll know more.
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  But the schedule that the the opponents are set and there's nothing there that seems
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  impossible just you know, looking at their schedule at Army is probably the top
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  three most difficult games for them, I think, you know, And I
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  was looking at Miami's schedule the other day and I said that they if they're
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  not in the playoffs with that schedule, because they basically have the same schedule
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  as Syracuse and none of these games seem like, well, that's that's an
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  automatic loss, and now half of them may be toss ups. And what
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  determines an ACC division champ not that there are any more divisions, but so
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  much of this is just do you your toss up games? And it's kind
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  of like the Big ten West, did you win your toss up games?
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  If so, you're gonna be in the conference championship game. It gets a
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  little bit more difficult now without divisions. But you look at this and I
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  don't know, at North Carolina State is maybe the one. You're like,
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  oh, I know, they get Miami at home, so that'll be beneficial.
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  But nothing here looks out of the realm of possibility. And yet you
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  can see anything from five and seven to nine to three, ten and two.
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  That's the magic of these new conferences. I guess that you're gonna you're
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  getting things a little more. You know, the fact that the Big ten
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  and the SEC have sort of taken a lot of the good teams away from
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  some of the other leagues. Feels like the Big twelve is much more wide
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  open now. The ACC is much more wide open now. So well,
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  we'll see how that all plays out. One last thing I wanted to talk
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  about, and I was just thinking about this again, is we had sort
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  of I think talked about this when McCord first transferred. How different might life
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  be if Kyle McCord had not played in the twenty twenty one Michigan State game.
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  Because Kyle McCord played four games at the beginning of his true freshman season.
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  Started the game against Akron, played very briefly against Rutgers, played very
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  briefly against Maryland, played very briefly against Indiana, and so then he could
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  have maintained his red shirt season. And then in twenty twenty one against Michigan
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  State. That was the game where Ky where c J. Stroud had them
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  out to a what fifty six to nothing lead at halftime. The week before
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  the Michigan game, Kyle McCord played I think essentially the whole second half of
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  that game, finishing four of eight for seventeen yards, no touchdowns, one
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  pick. But the fact that he played in that fifth game means now he
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  does not have another year of eligibility. Twenty twenty four is the last year
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  of eligibility he'll have given the fact that he made his decision to transfer based
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  on the fact that this was going to be his last season of eligibility and
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  he needed, you know, wanted to make sure he was starting and wasn't
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  going to lose his starting job and with the NFL Draft potentially looming, you
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  got to have another year film out there. How crazy is it that a
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  decision to play him in the second half against Michigan State could potentially have played
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  that kind of a role in him leaving Ohio State three years later. Yeah,
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  it is interesting. I do wonder if just this experience this season was
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  something that was not a great experience for com Acord and what you have chosen
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  anyways to just move on and begin anew With the situation at Ohio State,
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  the reception from the fans, I think is maybe something that it leaves a
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  bad taste in your mouth. I mean c J. Stroud even went through
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  it. But yeah, just one game, and at the time, it
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  was well, nobody sticks around for five years anyway. Ohio State quarterbacks don't
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  stick around for five years, so what does it matter? And now you're
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  seeing, well, this is why that matters, because you can't just assume
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  somebody is here for three years and then they're gone. And now you've got
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  that to deal with. I do wonder if it's one of those things where
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  do you stick it out until the spring and then if you aren't Is this
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  a Joe Burrow thing where if you aren't the starter in the spring, then
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  you're like, well, I'll just jump into portal and go and now I'll
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  go to Syracuse something like that. But you know, you got the you
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  get the year of starting, so you're gonna want more than that going into
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  the next season, especially your final season. So it is interesting. I
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  still don't think that he would have accepted not not being named the starter regardless
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  of that fifth game. Yeah, it does feel like that might be the
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  difference what you said there, you know, leaving now versus leaving after the
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  spring. You know, if you have, if you have the margin of
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  error that you could have two more seasons, that maybe makes leaving after the
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  spring and doing the you know, the exact same career trajectory that Joe Burrow
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  did, that makes that a lot more a lot more feasible. I think,
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  rather than walking into a new system after spring, not having a spring
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  practice, new head coach, everyone's learning the system at the same time.
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  You know, I think that maybe maybe it makes it easier to do that
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  and jump to Syracuse at that point if you do have two years left.
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  But either way, he played in the twenty twentyon one Michigan State game.
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  He will play in the twenty twenty four Syracuse games, and we will see
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  see what Cottle McCord's career goes, where his career goes from here, and
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  then we will see where the Ohios quarterback room goes from here, as well
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  as Devin Brown, Lincoln Keenholes, air Noland, and potential transfer quarterback Mark
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  Gifler called him Chug four point zero, whoever he may be. We'll look,
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  well that quarterback battle will look like throughout the this month as they head
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  into the Cotton Bowl, and of course all through the off season and spring
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  ball in the summer and fall camp and all that good stuff. And the
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  best place to track all of that stuff and fall along with the quarterback battle
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  and everything else going on with the high state football is at buckeyehuddle dot Com.
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  Have our fantastic team of insiders covering the team. Tony and Kevin and
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  I covering the Buckeyes headed down to Sonny. He said, hopefully Dallas in
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  about a week or so, and then covering the Cotton Bowl, and then
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  of course Early Signing Day coming up on Wednesday, all the Transfer portal fun
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  and well whatever emotion the transfer portal may emote from you, that's all happening
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  there. And of course our fantastic team of ex's and those gurus making you
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  a murder football fan all at buckey Huddle dot com. That will do it
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  for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  We'll talk to you tomorrow.