Va Tech hires James Franklin

[jarnol32]

Franklin is a great match with Blacksburg. Miserable guy miserable city.

 

[VFLBerg]

Penn State, James Franklin agree to drastically reduced buyout as ex-coach moves on to Virginia Tech​

James Franklin buyout with Penn State drastically reduced amid Virginia Tech hiring

 

[vol_sec]

Franklin will probably do great at VT. I never liked the guy, just a prick, but he got results. And the talent to content with is much easier. SEC has 14 of the top 25 schools talent wise, talent everywhere to compete with. Big Ten had Ohio State and Oregon with more talent than Penn State to face every year. But the ACC only has one team in the top 10, Clemson which is struggling, then Miami at 15. If he can bring Techs talent up to Penn State level, top 10, he literally will have little competition, if he continues winning the games his team was suppose to win talent wise.

 

[Mason]

from a step up in coaching and recruiting VT probably made the hire of the season! time will tell but glad he is there instead of FL or Auburn

 

[orangebloodgmc]

LSU would have burned the campus down if they hired this clown

I don't think so. If LSU can't get their Kiffin, then they are talking about Drinkwitz, just as big of an a-hole as Franklin (though not as Black).

 

[Firebirdparts]

Good hire for VT. they aren't going to be expecting championships like pedd state.

seems weird move for Franklin, VT was at best the 4th best job open. I guess the ACC is easy to win in, and low expectations relieve stress for Franklin. but otherwise I don't see the appeal.

I guess the better jobs didn't want him. They may wish they had him after they figure out there aren't 4 or 5 Kiffins, but I doubt it.

 

[Cobb-Webb 1989]

Great hire from them. I honestly think Florida and LSU are dumb fighting for Kiffin when Franklin was right there available

100%

 

[VAVol85]

I didn't think about it before, but wasn't Brent Pry-their last coach-from Franklins "tree" at Penn State?

Bold move to take two bites of the same poison apple, but you do you Hokies

Correct. Pry was a good guy but a crappy coach. Hope we don’t learn that Franklin is the other way around.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

Great hire from them. I honestly think Florida and LSU are dumb fighting for Kiffin when Franklin was right there available

You could make a pretty good argument that Franklin would’ve been the 2nd best head coach LSU would’ve had since 2000 if he had gone there. Obviously, the landscape of college football has changed dramatically even since Orgeron was there, but from an X’s and O’s and longevity standpoint I think most would take him over Miles, Orgeron and now Kelly. It’ll be interesting to see where they land. I think Franklin will do well in Blacksburg bc it’s not hard to come in and have an immediate impact in the ACC. There’s no other conference where a team from the American Conference could come in and go undefeated in their first season the way SMU did last season. Franklin should be able to come in as the coach with the second most prestige behind a fading Dabo.