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Little Bobby Tables's picture Little Bobby Tables
MEH. 😕
| 8 months 2 weeks # | James Franklin - Ball is in your court?

The only coach they could hire that would make me quit VT football would be Brian Kelly.

I'd be right there with you. I'd hate it, not having VT football to look forward to watching on the weekend (or not watch, if it's CW), but I'd hate Brian Kelly having the reins of the program even more.

He fucking killed a kid. He should be nowhere near coaching football.

Little Bobby Tables's picture Little Bobby Tables
MEH. 😕
| 8 months 2 weeks # | James Franklin - Ball is in your court?

Have him sing on the Gameday set, too. "Yeah my 'crooters are comin'.....to your ci-tay! If you want a little Gobble in your ching-chang, come along!"

Little Bobby Tables's picture Little Bobby Tables
MEH. 😕
| 8 months 2 weeks # | MLB 2025

I wonder if he'll get Gwen Stefani to sing the national anthem at one of their games. ;^)

AssPocketFullOWhiskey's picture AssPocketFullOWhiskey
DON'TNEEDNOSTINKING⭐
| 8 months 2 weeks # | James Franklin - Ball is in your court?

Not sure why you feel the need to defend the decision at every turn. You all did your jobs and dude's gone. Let it go.

Bragghokie's picture Bragghokie
| 8 months 2 weeks # | James Franklin - Ball is in your court?

I think Franklin is the only logical choice.

We've done the "hot" G5 coach before. Didn't work out (probably more due to inability to fire people but still...) And EVERYONE in the sports world thought Fu was a homerun hire.

People want to hire another G5 HC whose ability at the P4 level is unknown over a coach who has coached and coached well at the top of the P4 (PSU may not be OSU, Bama, Mich blueblood but they are right under it).

It just boggles my mind. Franklin makes the most sense. Will he stay forever? Probably not. If he took us to a natty I bet he would be hired away the following year. But he will have put us in a way better place to find another hot coach in that position than where we are now.

We are drowning and people want to tell us to change our stroke to swim instead of just throwing out the life preserver.

VTJ12's picture VTJ12
| 8 months 2 weeks # | James Franklin - Ball is in your court?

I also think we had struck out on a few options already (Napier, maybe Campbell, maybe Clawson), said no to Elko, so Pry was like a Plan F at that point. The Beamer connections helped to sell it to the fan base and those in the inner circle around the program for sure.

Let's be honest, the big selling points about Pry were:

1) Connection to Franklin/the PSU program which has been tremendously successful and is eating our lunch in recruiting
2) Connection to Beamer/Bud and VT

Now we have the opportunity to actually hire the architect behind PSU in Franklin, and some people are weirdly against that?

Vtkey's picture Vtkey
| 8 months 2 weeks # | Week 10 - Other Games

Don't get me wrong. The SEC definitely has the advantage.

As do ACC teams with good records.

You gotta make the most of what you've got. Isn't the Boston College game the Notre Dame contractual game with the ACC? So for all intents and purposes, that's an ACC game, and is interesting because of Notre Dame's record and following.

Alum07's picture Alum07
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| 8 months 2 weeks # | James Franklin - Ball is in your court?

To be fair, the Pry hire was far more of a gamble than Cignetti. Pry has done nothing in his career at that point that showed he was ready, but he shook Beamer's hand, and there's a certain code amongst guys who shook Beamer's hand.

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