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What if we pay him 6 and the he gets 4 in NIL?
Taking everything with a grain of salt.....
More like a mountain of salt lol- so much salt even Pat Narduzzi says 'whoa-too much!'
Maybe an offset for the remaining years of his PSU buyout and a bump after? Otherwise it seems foolish to leave their money on the table
10M a year for someone with an offset clause doesn't seem like a smart way to structure a contract for him. Seems like it would be best to give him an average ACC salary and beef up the spending around him. What does that 10M number pertain to? Just his yearly base salary?
Taking everything with a grain of salt.....
Just had a pretty connected buddy text me that Franklin to VT is a done deal. It was between us and Arkansas, both offering $10M each and he chose us.
Man, this would be a great statement hire if true. Big dogging an SEC member for our #1 choice (well, at least my #1 choice)
Maximum reasonable money for tech is 5-6 million. For all the talk of the money increase most of it is theoretically "to be raised". In other words, there isn't actually any new money yet.
That sounds sufficiency loosey goosey that good lawyers should be able to figure out how to make PSU pay.
After all, they're the ones who didn't think he was worth the money they were paying him, so it should definitely be less than that.
Franklin's buyout clause from his PSU contract that Franklin must "make good faith efforts to obtain the maximum reasonable salary", so wherever he goes, he's not signing for scraps to make PSU pony up
If it's not Franklin then I'm guessing it'll be Chesney. With all the openings right now, Id imagine any top level coach is going to go to sec or psu.
That would make me so sad
Wow. Whoosh. That's what happens at the end of a 15 hour day at the state capitol when I try to turn my brain from lobbying to football.
Reminds me of some of the recent tactic changes in freshwater. Going back several years there are some monster smallmouth being caught in the dead of winter locally, particularly at South Holston, by the "float and fly" technique. This was essentially taking a 1/16 oz hair jig or fly and deadsticking it 10-20 feet below a bobber for suspended fish. The key was to find their depth and keep the lure in the appropriate strike zone as long as possible, letting the wind and subtle wave action do the work. There are some monsters caught in the dead of winter this way when all other anglers swore nothing was hitting in 40 degree water.
While that was primarily targeted to suspended fish, it's similar to the downsizing of baits for working the bottom such as ned rigs and drop shots that have become very popular. There's something about a subtle twitch while keeping the bait mostly stationary that can really trigger bites. It can be a difficult technique to master, especially if you're a power fisherman, but I've seen it load the boat when nothing else worked.
If you don't want to get hurt, don't believe anything until it's officially announced.
Good post. I've often used flies on spinning tackle when trout fishing, but haven't done any saltwater fishing with flies. We are having no problem catching fish if they're there, but repeatedly coming up empty when all else are doing the same just tells us they ain't there.
For those in the know, Crazy Lady showed her posterior yet again to my neighbor as he fished her dock, forevermore known to us as Crazy Lady dock. Even threatened to call his wife on him, for goodness' sake. Tip o' the hat to you, flyguy. It seems to be an apt description. Check your email for neighbor's report.
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I am still 50/50 on wanting Franklin. Pry kind on contaminated that tree to me.
That being set, skuttlebut from the Athletic Department is that we tried to talk to Mullen and he turned us down. I really hope that is wrong.
"Long leader" fly fishing is a term I've heard thrown around on the Bay a lot the past several years. Apparently it's controversial among us flyguy snobs. Found this video on the two brothers that do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktf21j29gJ0
Interesting technique. It's basically Euro Nymphing saltwater style, with twitches. I couldn't care less if people argue whether it's fly fishing or not. What grabs my attention is the number of fish they are catching by merely lightly twitching / bouncing a fly on the bottom. Makes me think there are more fish that will eat in areas that I've deemed empty because they are not going to actively chase a quickly twitched jig / lure / fly.
For my style of fishing on the Bay and blind casting holes, drop offs, structure in NC, I am quickly twitching back the jig or fly. Perhaps I need to use a heavier fly or jig and let it get to the bottom and barely move it.
This past week fishing in NC we had some success on trout, puppy drum and flounder by slowly working a jig and Mirrolure Lil Jon on the bottom, when the fish wouldn't actively eat a regular MR18. I think this style of fly fishing could be done with a light action spin rod and some hair jigs tied on quarter ounce jig heads. I can tie one hell of a good looking hair jig in any color combination. I can even add marabou and that thing will really look alive. My buddy in NC also swears that trout will eat a hair jig resting on the bottom when nothing else will work. He says the bucktail moves just enough to get them to bite. I tried one when we had very slow fishing, even put pro cure on it (GASP!), to no avail. But with four of us on the boat and a 7 degree water temp drop that morning, the fishing that day sucked regardless.
Anyways, just thought it was an interesting technique and may help some of the Hokie Fisherfolk modify tactics on fly or spin to get a few more nibbles. I know I'm going to try a long leader and heavy fly of my own version without the power pro.
All these rumors and tweeter accounts posting like Franklin to VT is all but a done deal, meanwhile my VT possibility of good news PTSD kicking in
agreed
I still think it's unlikely we'll land Franklin. I hope that when he snubs us our first calls are to Tyson Helton, Charles Huff and Bob Chesney (in no particular order). If we are able to land one of those 3 guys in the event Franklin doesn't work out I'd consider that a relatively successful coaching hire in this cycle and I'd be excited for football next year.
bring a ton of your 2026 class and transfers from PSU to VT day one
If we get Franklin, and this happens with class of 2026 and other transfers, 2026 in the ACC could be a fun year for VT
My father's nickname now is "Beepa", because my oldest would mispronounce "Grandpa". At the time, TV was "beevee" and Wonder Pets were "bee pets". /shrug
He wanted something like "Grandaddy Mac" because it would be (somewhat) unique, and we said f that, that's too much for a toddler to say, so we told her his name is "Grandpa", which he hated. Turns out he got the unique name he wanted, and loves it.
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That I don't know. Like I sad, grain of salt.