Name: James Franklin Takes Charge at Virginia Tech for 2026
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Description: James Franklin shifts from Penn State to Virginia Tech as head coach, aiming to leverage his vast experience for success. Donnie and Joe break it down.

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James Franklin, just a few weeks ago, he was the head coach of the Penn State Nittany Ls as they were looking to do some damage here in the 2025 season. I got maybe the best backfield combination in the country. I got Drew Aller coming back. We should be able to roll this year. They got rolled right out of the Big 10 and so did Mr. James Franklin. But now he re-emerges at Virginia Tech as the head coach, and here he is meeting with his team, getting that first look. Uh, but number one, obviously honored to be here. Uh, me and my wife Fumi, uh, actually we just text my brother-in-law who lives about 9 miles from here. Um, so just, just blessed and honored to be a part of this. We've been doing this for 30 years, uh, me and my family and um. I know Virginia Tech well. I was at the University of Maryland for 8 years before I left and went to the Green Bay Packers. I was a young offensive coordinator, went to, uh, went to Virginia Tech. There was a defensive coordinator, I think you guys may know him, named Bud Foster, and that was a long night for the young offensive coordinator, to be honest with you, but, um, just honored to be here. I want to thank the search committee. Uh, those guys were relentless, um, obviously Jay and Ryan and the whole crew just, just did a phenomenal job. John, did you have something? No, I was just once again wanting to thank you for becoming a hokey. I believe Jay may have something for you so you'd be properly attired in the future. Yeah, yeah, Jay sent me a bunch of stuff. Uh, you can't have too much pokey gear. Yeah, yeah, last week. There you go. He's in front of the boys getting the team ready to go. What he should have said is, guys, I guarantee you one thing, I will make this schedule the softest in the entire nation like I tried to do with Penn State. We're gonna win a lot of football games, just not a lot of meaningful football games. They're like, you know what, coach? Sounds good. Yeah, you know, it's funny. I, I remember when James Franklin was there for a couple of years at Vandy, and everyone was like, Oh, this guy, this guy, he's winning 9 football games this season. Every, he was like the fun coach. And then all of a sudden he goes to Penn State and he's winning 11 games a year, Donnie, and looks about as. Miserable as a human being could with an aspiration of course of trying to win a national championship, which he was never going to do at Vandy and guess what? He ain't going to do it here at Virginia Tech either, but you know what it'll be? He'll be a lot happier with 9 wins this season, 10 wins this season without the pressure that Penn State brought, so. I think it's a great move for him. I think, uh, got to be careful though. That 3rd go around, I saw Mark Rick come here to Miami. I saw Chip Kelly at UCLA, uh, Gus Malza at UCF. doesn't always work out, but I don't think the aspirations are there, uh, for Votek just yet, so I think he's going to have a lot of success.

James Franklin Takes Charge at Virginia Tech for 2026

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