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We should NEVER play odu. Or jmu or liberty. Theyre always trap games. We will be their super bowl until the end if the time. Complete negligence on whoever set the odu series up. Playing at odu is criminal.
There is no doubt that Franklin is the top of the list of proven coaches on known market. He would win 9 games next year here at Lil ol
l VT. I for one sound like to see him on the sideline next year for VT. Itd be like Buzz in a lot of ways. We know we'd probably only have him for 4 or 5 years max. And thats OK. We need to win now. Now is next season. Thats how they should look at this hire. The rebuild has to happen this off-season.
Plenty of other intriguing candidates out there but non are more proven than Franklin.
Honestly if his goal is to win the natty I think VT would be intriguing to him. No annual rivalry games with sec contenders. Very manageable conference schedule. Miami is probably toughest game year to year. Win one game in the acc championship and you have your shot. Clemson looks down big time too.
At fsu youre playing Miami and Florida every year. Would he trade the little 10 gauntlet for the sec gauntlet? Im not sure.
"I'm prepared to donate up to $20M, depending on how much you are able to raise for the coaching transition. I don't want to have to, as this may impact future donations."
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8 months 4 weeks
# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed There seems to be a lot of smoke rising right now around Shane, and.... He didn't exactly deny the rumors with this response....
South Carolina coach Shane Beamer on his Sunday teleconference responding to a question about Virginia Tech rumors:"I have no idea where that story came from. I have conveyed publicly many times how much I want to be here. And I respect the question, I understand you asking it,... pic.twitter.com/i4KfOgFjeG— Wes Mitchell (@WesMitchellGC) October 19, 2025
Also, when questioned about his OC's playcalling, he channeled a little bit of his dad's energy from a old Hokie Hotline call in from years and years ago....
Shane Beamer has no interest in hearing your questions about his offensive coordinator. pic.twitter.com/oMX9LjfcfF— SEC Unfiltered (@SECUnfiltered) October 18, 2025
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach I can definitely see your point. I think if we were still pushing 7 wins a year I would completely agree with you. But when we're getting rolled by the likes of ODU, who just got smashed by JMU, I don't think we can be too worried about value in the long run. Just one schmuck's opinion haha
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Franklin being close to Pry could be an advantage as Pry could give him detailed information on where in the Athletic Department he ran into impediments. First step to cleaning house.
Anyone who turns their nose up at Franklin given the current state of our football program is out of their minds.
I'll push back on this just a little. I'm not sure I'd exactly turn my nose up at him but I don't want him here. First of all, I don't think we could get him - and in order to get him I think we'd have to fork over a hell of a lot of money and I'd rather hire someone like Bob Chesney and save a little money for coordinators and support staff. Would Franklin raise our floor? Absolutely. Would it be worth it? I'm not sure.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach The guy was a made FG in the closing seconds of the Orange Bowl 10 months ago from coaching in the CFP National Championship Game, but yeah, sure, he wouldn't raise our ceiling.
There are certain segments of this fanbase that have completely and utterly lost their damn minds over this coaching search. And there's a decent amount of us who are in complete delusional denial about just how bad our current profile is. Both our floor and ceiling are depressingly low compared to where we want to be. Our ceiling right now with all else remaining the same over the next 5 years is bowl eligibility, and that is probably asking too much given the makeup of the roster. This is a very bad program in desperate need of someone to come in and rebuild us back to legitimacy.
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed I think its also worth looking at it over the big picture. If the coach has a trend over years of steadily improving performance, and then just happens to have a down year this year that either gets him on the hot seat or fired, I don't think that would necessarily discourage me from hiring him. Both Franklin and Beamer would fit that role, they've both had programs that have steadily improved over the years, just for fanbases that have vastly overestimated their own team's position on the overall college football totem pole. They both have a steady enough track record that you should be able to have faith that they would immediately raise both the floor and ceiling here to have us operating like the programs we want to be, which in and of itself is something we desperately need right now.
I'll ask the same question that I asked to Mrs MattBoard's side of the family over the past few seasons (they are all Penn St fans): Who is the guy who is going to do that? Which coach out there is winning all these games against top 5 teams that isn't already locked into an absurd deal?
I don't think we'll get Franklin. I think some other team is going to pay more than we are willing to or is going to have something he is looking for that we don't know about yet. But in the event that we could, who is the better guy available to Tech right now?
edit: also, I apologize, the comment wasn't meant to target any one person. I was just using general coach eval language. The sentiment has been widespread here, reddit, twitter, etc.
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8 months 4 weeks
# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Well this seems like a pretty direct callout. I'll bite.
Franklin would get us back to the big games, sure. He would probably get our infrastructure built out to a modern size and whip the fossils in Merryman into shape, if not replace them altogether. If you kept reading that comment you'd see I acknowledged that for these reasons alone he would be worth the effort and we should still try and get him.
But personally, I'm more interested in a guy who could actually, I dunno...win those big games. I have no idea who that might be, but it ain't James Franklin. I've seen VT lose too many games they should've won to think that the dropoff from the B1G to the ACC offsets his terminal inclutchitude. Maybe it could be the guy after him.
Y'all might think my standards are too high, but looking at the state of VTFB right now, I'd say we never would've fallen off if more people around the program had my kind of standards.
Out of what is available or expected to be available, VT could do far far far worse hiring someone other than Franklin. Its going to take a lot of money to get him, but there are going to be mutual expectations in this relationship and not just the school hoping to get back to relevance and a coach happy for his first HC spot - I have to imagine Franklin feels his own coaching clock ticking, and is going to be relentless in his pursuit of a national title wherever he goes.
The only comment I'll disagree with is the awkwardness of Franklin replacing Pry. Franklin isn't taking Pry's job. Pry lost his job before hiring Franklin (or anyone) became a discussion. If anything, Franklin would be taking Montgomery's (interim) job.
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# | The Argument for James Franklin to be the next VT Football Coach Anyone who turns their nose up at Franklin given the current state of our football program is out of their minds. It's most likely that we're not good enough for him atm, not the other way around.
I think someone here commented the argument that he can't win a big game is absurd when we're just trying to win *A* game
Can confirm he's a community minded guy. I rarely go downtown but over the years it wasn't improbable to see him walking around on his phone coaching or recruiting.
The big game James moniker fits. Kinda like Beamer, his record shows a high floor but 1 and whatever against top five.
Recruiting would be elite and he knows our area well. Might even be able to bring Chad Powers in for a tryout.
Vastly different funding here than at PSU. Similarly passionate fan base.
All told I could dig it but I'd want him to have elite coordinators. He's the prototypical CEO coach.
Seems like if you backloaded it, though, that they'd argue that it WASN'T fair compensation.
Then again, you're backloading it for success, and you can argue that Penn State considered him a failure at this time.
thanks for keeping wrestling updated Rob! 4x champ at the Super is insane
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# | Bitter: Expect no further updates on coaching search - NDAs have been signed my guess. those were both ran in the Athletic Dept which I assume their employment contract has non-disclosure clauses within them. this process has a Selection Committee fully made up of non-employees who need an agreement to keep things withheld legally.
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This take down is insane
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Sources close to bye week say there are high-level meetings to consider its coach's future.
I was thinking more like 35+point losses vs the usual 14 point losses.
Also underthrowing two receivers on touchdowns. He was straight up ineffective, downright bad
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Hey, that tornado did raise the floor AND the ceiling for a short bit there
agree that we shouldn't be playing those teams - but the reality is that we are and we're losing to them. That's a coaching issue. If we have to play those games, we should be winning them 63-27, not losing them 26-45.
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