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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach 
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Agreed. I am not an expert on what PSU is looking for but do talk to PSU alums and snoop on their message boards from time to time and imo
A guy that is 3-4 and blown out by Duke and about to be on a for game losing streak?
Lots of guys were set up to win immediately after Beamer, other than QB that team had a lot of talent
The location sucks too unless you're going to Rutgers.
Zurich is also hella narrow concourse in the terminal omg i felt so claustrophobic in there lol
The other choices exist but they aren't better 🤷♂️ i have so many thoughts here lol
Newark is fine and really only Terminal B sucks. They're putting major money into renovating and updating.
I'm amazed that people still fly into Newark when there are a half dozen other choices lol
Newark: when you absolutely need to add a bus trip to your already convoluted travel plans
On airport topic, Chattanooga's is close enough to Atlanta that the taxiing on both ends is longer than the flight. They have to get clearance to land in Atlanta before they take off here.
As for interesting airports, in Zurich, they have chocolatiers in the airport making chocolate daily, the smell is maddening. And in Dublin, they have free whisky tastings after security. And since US Customs is handled there, no funky repacking of anything you buy in the airport when you get back the the US.
Yeah, but Greeny was an asshole and all his assistants quit/left because of it. He left the admin no choice but to fire him.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Man, I am amazed that we got through 6 prior posts (that was the number of prior posts at the time I wrote this one) talking about bad airports and no one has mentioned Newark yet. Not even counting all of the issues this year with the radar, the place is old, a dump, poor restaurant choices not easy to get from 1 terminal to another ...
"On multiple occasions since April 28, air traffic controllers have temporarily lost radar or communications with planes around Newark Airport—once for up to 90 seconds—spurring Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigations, making national news, and prompting a recent Saturday Night Live sketch that illustrated how mainstream concerns about air traffic control safety have suddenly become."
I go back and forth on shane... His record is:
- 7-6
- 8-5
- 5-7
- 9-4
- 3-4
Left on the schedule he has (4) Alabama, (8) Ole Miss, (3) TAMU, Coastal Carolina, Clemson. Those 4 losses include Vandy (top 15 team), Mizzou (top 25 team), LSU (top 20ish team), OU (top 15 team). If he wins 2 of his remaining games, he beats expectations.
Therapy words on Shane:
- I think Shane doesn't come back to VT because who wants to coach at a place with a statue of your dad in front of the stadium
- I feel like I would be way more into Shane if his last name wasn't Beamer - (1) it just feels incestous, (2) what does it say about VT if the only two guys who win here have the last name Beamer?
My tinfoil-hat-conspiracy is that the interest in Shane is just Fake News to (a) give Whit the space to do a coach search in peace and (b) get Shane a raise on a 5-7 season (which would be impressive agenting lol).
My other tinfoil-hat-conspiracy is that Whit is actually doing the search and the committee is just there to give him cover.
Disclaimer: My tinfoil-hat-conspiracy-theories are based on zero facts, just vibes.
He was very innovative and understood how the game was played.
The Beamer comps keep coming up, but they seem pretty apt. Do you think Beamer was good or great?
Beamer is a hall of famer.
I'm starting to think that it takes a hall of fame coach to win 10 games regularly at VT.
My memory very much matches yours, but I didn't have time to check the data.
If we hire Franklin, it could be announced sooner (I don't we'll land him, but we'll see).
That said, I think you're right... just looking at dates:
- Nov 29th: last day of hate week
- Dec 4-6: Early Signing Period
- Dec 6th: Conference Championship Weekend
- Dec 19-20: CFP Round 1
- Dec 31/Jan 1: CFP Round 2
- Jan 2: Portal Opens
- Jan 8/9: CFP Semis
- Jan 16: Portal Closes
- Jan 19: CFP Championship
- Feb 4: National Signing Day
Given that we're not poaching a sitting playoff coach (LOL) I think we should have our guy between 11/30 and 12/7ish. Huff and Chesney are both in the conference title race, both basically out of the playoff race, and I assume neither would skip the conference championship game for a new job (Huff did not last year)
Christmas would mean would took a big swing or missed bad.
Can't they just transfer in lol?
Honestly, I don't think that's how you do it any more, because - unless you're landing 4+ stars - those players likely won't see the field for a couple years. I think a coach's first class should be transfer heavy (win now), then with each year, the scales tip toward a more even split.
Also, I'm more worried about re-recruiting the current roster than just throwing more mid-3-stars on to it.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Denver is my least favorite since it's roughly the size of Rhode Island and the hike from the tram to any gate is at least 20 minutes, plus the TSA lines there are the least efficient I've seen.
Never originated or finished at Denver so can't speak to the TSA lines, the rest of the post is dead on. Not to mention I've had a couple scary -ass approaches when landing with wicked swirling crosswinds that tossed our plane 100 feet in random directions both sideways and up and down-sometimes both simultaneously!
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach I've actually never in my life flown into or out of Atlanta as a start/stop point- only ever connected through there. Being from Richmond its only 7-8 hour drive and I'd rather drive an have my own car than fly there and need a rental or rely solely on MARTA.
Miami,
AKA Third World International /s ...NOT
I'm totally serious. He's shown he's a serious coaching candidate who if his name wasn't Beamer wouldn't give us the time of day because it's a lateral move at best and coaches rarely make lateral moves.
dont care enough, shane went on a rager about the oc. sounded like an ass again. i figured he would tramp the dirt down on us in atlanta but turns out scar sucks moderately less than we do so he couldnt.
and you cant be serious... i dont hate shane but giving him a lifeline makes us a completely unserious program. if he wasnt named beamer, we wouldnt consider it. hell, id hire chesney 100 times out of a 100 vs shane at this point.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach I think Pry could actually be an asset in convincing Franklin to come here. I legitimately believe Pry loves VT and the stuff he would say about it being a special place weren't just lines. He knows he failed, he spent three years talking about the standard and expectation and he didn't meet it. He told Franklin all about Blacksburg which is why he left PSU in the first place. It's definitely a little awkward, and I think it's more likely Franklin goes somewhere else with Pry as his DC.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Ciarrocca has been pretty good at Rutgers which is not an easy place to be successful. He kicked our ass twice.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Is Franklin's recruiting failure rate significantly worse than other coaches recruiting in the same range?
I seem to recall a lot of PSU players getting drafted. Scanning 247 all-time recruits I see Micah Parsons, Miles Sanders, Nick Singleton, Dani Dennis-Sutton, Rasheed Walker, and PJ Mustipher. Not everyone hits, but damn those are some good hits.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach According to bar's article, the average recruiting ranking was 12.75. In 11 years, Franklin finished ranked 7 times. The 4 unranked finishes were his first two years both of which they went 7-6, and the two COVID impacted years - 2020 they only played 9 games and 2021 they went 7-6. The average ranked finish in those non-COVID non-rebuilding initial years was 9.43.
9.43 > 12.75
Franklin doesn't do less with more. He meets expectations or slightly exceeds them. Considering all the coaches and programs that recruit well and then consistently shit the bed, his ability to get what's expected out of his roster is fairly impressive.
Well as far as I'm concerned the coaching candidate search is done and Bar can take a breather in his most excellent write ups. We have two targets for Plan A and one for Plan B.
Plan A: Franklin and Mullen
Plan B: Huff