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the "founding savior" of VT Football. Not statue worthy
If Franklin gets us back to contending for ACC championships annually and CFP occasionally, I'll carve his statue myself!
I don't know - saw a clickbait headline yesterday that said just that "PSU to rehire Franklin".
Where there's smoke, lol
I worked at the Patterson Ave location from 1982-86. Knew Bobby and Jim and their son Scott. Also met the founder Joe at the company picnic at their farm in Varina. Great folks and really miss that store!
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8 months 2 weeks
# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach BTW-was in NYC in Manhattan in the mid 2000s and ended up near the Manhattan courthouse (or as I called it 'the Law and Order steps) and they were filming a scene from the movie 'The Bounty Hunter ' and got to see Jennifer Anniston in person . Just as beautiful in person AS ON tv!
Sucking
If franklin is actually the candidate why would he want his new school to pay a hogh salary and get psu off the hook instead of dumping cash into support
Franklin has so much money now, he isn't (or better put doesn't) need to do it for this. He knows he will get VT's top dollar offer. Easy negotiation for him and he will get most, if not all he wants from a staffing and support perspective.
I imagine this position as to why he is negotiating and is sincere about coming to VT.
He can go to an ACC school and not have to deal with such lofty expectations. He knows he good enough to start the rebuild process and will be able to do it (to what degree = TBD), but he will have success.
He will be heralded as the "founding savior" of VT Football. Not statue worthy, but Mike Vick effect worthy.
He will enjoy himself and love Blacksburg. He will stay here for a while, maybe even long term if he finds a Y/Y progression scenario to where we become a top ACC program.
He makes a ton of sense for the now. He may make a ton of sense for the mid term that either solidifies his position as the next Frank Beamer (from a tenure perspective) or launch VT into credible elite coach hiring status to get us to the next level (legit P2 program).
I worked at a Ukrops store while in high school. I was always treated well, and Bobby Ukrop (a VP at the time) knew and said hello to all of us by name (in one of 10 or 11 stores at that time, which eventually grew to 28 to 30).
Your committee should have cast a wider net to secure more candidates. Did you consider having one of your ex-girlfriends and some people that had dated other celebrities be involved?
My negotiations didn't get that far. But she was the most qualified candidate
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8 months 2 weeks
# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Did ya actually ASK her(Jennifer Anniston) ? cause as ya know, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.....
For any one who lived in Richmond from 1970s to early 2000s and knew the family grocery chain Ukrops-my daughter at that same age of 2-3 would say 'it should be We-krops cause it's not you that goes there- it's ALL of us'
She was a precocious child, lol.
I think that was a joke about the initials
Sounds like good motivation.
So it's kinda similar when he flipped our commitments to go to PSU. Great
So, at Tech, he can be petty and bother BOTH Maryland and Penn State. Sounds okay to me.
Good news is that Franklin is unlikely to sign with PSU
"Ain't no curses" - Coach Gary Gaines
Sounds like the early commitable offer to get the 4⭐️ bump so they can sign with PSU or someone else.
I think it's much more likely he's playing us to get a job somewhere else than he's CJF. I know you haven't been sold on him ever, but nothing in his history indicates that he'll crash and burn the same way Fuente did. Fuente was a G5 elevation to Power. Conference which always comes with major risk.
Franklin is also a very petty dude. It would make sense that he'd want to become a pain in the ass for Penn St. He keeps his binder for how he planned to run Maryland when he was head coach in waiting in his office. He never became Maryland's head coach...
I'm not so sure that's the case. Staying in the region just makes a ton of sense for him. Same existing recruiting network, you can likely bring a ton of your 2026 class and transfers from PSU to VT day one, and staff has mid-Atlantic ties as well. Plus added benefit of directly sticking it to PSU in recruiting. Also I think his kids are in school at PSU too, so would still be close by. Just makes an enormous amount of sense for both parties.
I would be shocked if his agent wasn't playing the game. But if we remain the best option, then I'll take it. I'm sure part of negotiations is making sure he has a robust player and coaching salary pool.
And hey, if he is playing us to leverage a bigger job, I'm watching JMU @ Texas St. Don't think we have a bad backup plan 125 miles down I-81
That's where the "negotiations" come in. To structure a deal that simultaneously gets the most out of us in some sort of delayed fashion and from PSU in the near term.