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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach 
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Until Christmas?!
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach He was also a young up and coming coach at Vandy. That job was a stepping stone from the time he got an interview. If his tenure in Blacksburg mirrored Vandy, he'd be here for 3 years then leave making him 58 in his first year at a new job. If it takes longer, are there that many schools that want to hire a coach who's in his 60s? Young coaches tend to move around more than older ones do.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach O'Hare sucks, I always fly out of Midway. Although O'Hare does have a Smoothie King, and there's not a lot of those around these parts.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Well it's also that VT fans will always know the ST coordinators name and hold them to a higher standard than most other fanbases
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Franklin wouldn't come if we didn't have the money to hire coordinators. This isn't the guy who just takes all the money then hopes for the best. This is the guy who hires Joe Moorhead to leave his job as the head coach at his alma mater to be his OC, who hires Kotelnicki away from Leipold who he'd worked with for over a decade starting at Wisconsin-Whitewater, who hires Jim Knowles away from rival and defending national champ Ohio St. Coaches are often only as successful as the hires they make, and Franklin is good at making hires, not afraid to go after the big coordinator fish, and not afraid to fire someone who's not performing.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach I would argue that Franklin is actually kind of great. How many coaches are able to win that many games consistently? Like yeah, Saban and Kirby are better and you'd rather have a guy who can win championships than someone continually bumping their head on a ceiling. But, the guys who are able to win that much every year are few and far between. The Beamer comps keep coming up, but they seem pretty apt. Do you think Beamer was good or great?
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Part of why you hire Franklin is because the likelihood he founders is so incredibly low. There's almost nothing in his resume that indicates that he won't win less than 9 games a season anywhere he goes. We're barely squeaking to bowl games and fan apathy is starting to set in. Any other coach, like a G5 promotion or assistant, is more likely to fail than succeed, that's just how coaching works. Very few coaches in the industry have been as successful as Franklin, and the likelihood we hire an up and comer who can match his success is so extremely low in a way that we can't afford right not.
And your concerns about finances are part of why you hire Franklin as well. As bar illustrated in his post, Franklin fundraises like crazy. Just in that aspect, he would pay for himself many times over.
We need to mitigate the risk of continuing to languish in mediocrity or worse just plain bad and watch funding and interest dry up. We need to hire someone with a low risk of failing, and luckily there are two guys out there with a proven track record at multiple stops and with varying levels of resources - Mullen and Franklin. We should sell the farm to get one of them, because proven commodities like that don't come around often.
Gotta go with the ALED. Go Jays. I very much dislike that the MLB and the media always want either the NYY or the LAD, or both in the WS. I will always root for the Orioles, the ALED representative, or anyone against the NYY and LAD, in that priority order.
Would be nice to have a coach in time to flip a few high school recruits.
Yea... I think there's lots of reasons that Schumann shouldn't be our HC, but 'doesn't know ball' ain't one of them.
lol Nothing will be announced until after UVA at earliest. There are more jobs to open too.
I wouldn't be surprised if it the job was open until Christmas. As long as it's a wrap before the portal opens in January, we're fine.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach You mean you don't want to be where everybody knows your name?
Probably not watching much out of spite and also because hockey is back, but pulling for the Dodgers unfortunately. Brewers were the only team of the last 4 I wanted in the WS.
Seriously, I'm done with this search and speculation at this point. If we are serious about Franklin, no reason we shouldn't be working overtime to bring him on ASAP (he's not coaching and before more competition opens up). The longer it goes and no news, the less likely it's Franklin for us.
FIU is sporting some neon style uniforms that I don't hate
Edit: if your a cosmere fan, they have a Hion Line vibe
And I'll just about guarantee that only Tech fans know his name.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Its one of those jobs where the only reason we know his name now is because of how bad he is at it.
To be fair to Stu how many special teams coordinators do you know the names of?
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed 'Out of whack' you say? Seems I've heard that before somewhere.......
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Man if we had a basketball pyramid VT would be in the second tier and the Wizards would be 3rd tier for sure. Non-zero chance they would fold or merge with Georgetown or something.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed Yeah was tracking she left to go work for the Washington Wizards....Tale of Two Dumpster Fires
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Yurcich was hired away from Texas but is the only coordinator Franklin fired mid-season because of how poorly he performed.
Eh, I'm just rooting for Ohtani to do some outrageous thing to remind us we're living at a time where we can watch the greatest baseball player of all time.
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Ciarrocca was hired from Minnesota where he was quite successful (his first go). Yurcich was a Texas hire if I recall correctly.
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.