Franklin will be Announced Monday as VT's Head Coach

The dominoes need to start falling. This will be the trigger.

Read he was taking his time to see if another school
Showed interest

Here is what I know...some connected and some guesses

- VT has committed to the monies they said they would, some people are saying it is all coming from donations, that is not true. VT knows that if there is another round of expansion it is now or never.
- the day he was let go, we reached out to Sexton and said whenever he is ready to talk we are
- as most of you all know, our AD has been a screw up for years...he has diverted so much money to baseball (great sport, but does not pay the bills in blacksburg), womens bb (highest monies in ACC :/ ), etc...
- Franklin put out many demands on number of staff and salaries that we have agreed. We are still behind as of today, but when Fuente flirted with Baylor he at least got some more staff. We will have to build a football only center which is a great thing to meet his staff needs.
- NIL - Essentially asked us to double what we have had and supposedly PSU was not as giving as we may believe. We agreed to that. Frankly our donors have so pissed off for years, they are happy to give the money, the planes, etc
- His wife loves Blacksburg and towns like it. He has been to Blacksburg at least twice and some say 3 times.
- On Friday one of the key insiders at both PSU and VT said it was done and now it is about announcing.
- Pry while a terrible coach, was great at many other things such as alumni outreach, fundraising, etc...even though he was fired, he has actually been very positive about VT and the fan base and said their family would do well in Blacksburg.
- VT has spoken with other coaches just in case, they had discussions with Fleck, Diaz and Chesney
- VT reached out to Sumrall but our people in the know said that him and Auburn have been set for weeks
- Little Beams is not or has not really been under consideration from what i can tell
- Bud did push for VT to talk to Stoops from Kentucky but not sure it ever happened

As a VT fan, I am pumped, and mainly because Franklin is not coming to VT unless we truly upped our game on salary, staff, etc. Our AD has too long ignored football and what is needed in today's world.

Franklin will at least stop some of the bleeding of players leaving for other programs. We have two good recruiters on current staff. So that will change. VT will never be top 15 recruiting but if he gets us back in the 15-25 range, that is more than enough to win the ACC.

And if Frankling gets us back in the ACC Champ game and moves on to another bigger program, good on him. Oh, he cannot win the big game, well not to many people win against Ohio St and Michigan. I just want VT to play games again that matter and not worry if we will lose to ODU again It has been a long decade of underachievement.

The deal was completed/signed late Friday afternoon in State College.