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Washington can't stop stepping and tripping on their own dicks
Edit: this comment applies to every week apparently
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I highly recommend staying at the resort if you get a chance.
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One play later Seattle TD
I'm with you on this one. Franklin is the only desirable candidate who we could possibly land right now.
Every other desirable candidate is not going to be available for three weeks or more. Why not just continue working with Franklin, WHILE ALSO continuing to negotiating with other candidates at the same time?
No coach is going to sign a deal now anyways. Bob Chesney is not signing a deal tomorrow, Charles Huff is not signing a deal tomorrow, Dan Mullen is not signing a deal tomorrow, Manny Diaz is not signing a deal tomorrow... Literally no other coach on our radar is going to sign a deal tomorrow unless they are currently unemployed.
I agree it shouldn't go on forever but seeing so many people with the Monday or Else is bad vibes. All involved are working on millions of dollars and the future of Hokies football. Let them get it done on their timeline.
Also I will say this - I'm thankful Whit is not in the drivers seat for this one. I don't know but my hunch and from knowing the situation and putting 2 and 2 together, I'm willing to bet John Rocovich himself is leading this negotiation. That dude is a true mover and a shaker and quite possibly the best rep VT could have right now. A distinguished attorney who has negotiated probably hundreds or thousands of deals. Who has also personally flown governors into Blacksburg before because he's a pilot. His son in law is a Congressman (I'm on a first name basis with Ben when I see him.) He was also a class act enough to have a personal convo/interview with my wife as she was graduating law school to give career advice and input. Class act.
If Rocovich is going toe to toe against Sexton I like this.
I think it's less about him getting started, and more about the fact that if he's not ready to sign w/ VT now, there's nothing that's going to sweeten the pot for him. If he's waiting to see what else opens, he's not convinced Tech is for him. Which is fine. We just need to move on sooner rather than later.
If we are getting strung along by Sexton then we have to at some point soon go to other options. We can't wait on Franklin the next 3 weeks and let all other leads go cold. I'm hopeful we are creating some leverage of our own with a shit or get off the pot mentality.
Have heard some rumblings that some of the delay is some behind the scenes vetting/recruiting by Franklin's camp to see who all will follow him to VT. So there's some time but it's not unlimited IMO.
Tuten with a 4th Quarter TD to help Jags go to OT with Raiders
Why are we in THAT much of a hurry? Who else is there RIGHT NOW? If it goes another week or two and then happens, who did we miss on? It shortens his time to recruit/portal prep/staff alignment a bit but honestly it's a month before any sitting coaches MIGHT switch jobs.
If he's not announced in the next couple of days, then yes I say it's time to move on.
This is probably the most pivotal few days in VT football history since Frank almost went to UNC in 2000. About to find out what VT is made of. Still think we have good other interested options if this falls through, but damnit we are going for the moon.
I feel like this is probably overcorrecting to too pessimistic in response to "Theres a rumor, were definitely getting him"
All of this speculation and forum frenzy has no impact on the discussions between agents, the committee, coaches and ADs. They exist in different universes.
We may not get him, but all the rumors and posts have essentially no impact on if we do or not
Let's be realistic here. If Franklin hasn't been announced yet he won't be. Not for Tech. That rumor has run it's course. We ain't getting him.
Doubtful. No way the money let's that happen. Too much invested.
Yea I agree. I think this is mostly a bunch of nonsense. Don't think we'll get any resolution in the next week really. Happy to be wrong, but I'm sure Franklin and Sexton and going to use the Auburn opening as leverage to inflate any offers he receives.
In my almost 30 years of watching VT football, this is one of the softest defenses I've seen is field.
It's like their ball carriers were Ducati bikes weaving in and out of a parking lot of 18-wheelers...18-wheelers made completely out of Nerf material, that is.
Jimmy Sexton is going to milk every last second to try to get more for Franklin. That's both of their MO's. Franklin got more and more continually from PSU. I guess they finally felt like they had given more than they were getting out of it with him, but VT would give anything to have had the success of PSU the last 10 years.
We are going to pay top dollar for Franklin if we can close this deal. And honestly I'm kind of glad the VT admin and donors are waking up and realizing what kind of financial commitment needs to be made if we want to compete at the top levels of the sport. There's probably a point where we don't/can't go any further, but this is the new reality if we want to be competitive. Throw out the cheap playbook.
I think somebody throwing shit to the wall to see how much sticks. That plane did land in Bburg on the 30th and is also scheduled to depart Bburg at 5pm this evening bound for Athens , however this isn't the first time that particular aircraft has done this. We shall see if any truth to it.
And you can assume with a lot of confidence that back room conversations with agents have probably been happening for a few weeks now so they're probably very aware of the level of interest if/when the job opened.
The WS always proves that moneyball only gives you a chance to make the playoffs. To win the WS, it takes MONEY.
One more season under the current CBA. Do we get salary reformation in the next CBA?
Which is why Franklin isn't the top of their list. The top tier of the SEC thinks they can do better. Remember he did just get fired from PSU for not winning the big games. I think that's a crazy mentality because I think Franklin is a really good coach, but an SEC school like Auburn isn't going to like the narrative that they hired the guy that PSU just let go. Same with LSU and UF.
If anything the official Auburn opening is just a last minute excuse for Franklin's agent to try and leverage a bit more money, but it's been known likely for a while that the Auburn job was opening up. So not a surprise to many in the inner circles of CFB.
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They are making our second half defense look good.