I really don't want Franklin between his only okay results at Penn State and the sheer amount of Title IX smoke there is with him, but fwiw he was definitely called by Woodward in week 2. I am pretty confident that the 247 insiders report that he used it as leverage to get facilities he wanted built are accurate given his history and who he is as a person. At some point he'll leave because he'll never be related to Joe Paterno or completely white which are both big deals to a not negligible portion of the Penn State fanbase, but I doubt it will be here. In general I don't like him because he feels like another Miles. He'll recruit with the best of them, he'll occasionally get a weirdly good class that will compete for a national title when they're ~Juniors, he'll drop some rivalry games for headscratchingly bad clock management, and the median season is a Citrus bowl. Not bad, but also not exciting for how much $$$$ it'll take to pull him away.

And for the record other fans, this is what a poachable headcoach at an elite program looks like. They need to be having a problem with something that matters to them. Woodward got Chris Petersen because he's a much bigger family man than the typical college coach and he wanted to be close to a top rate research hospital for family reasons. Woodward got Jimbo because Jimbo's FSU situation was a slightly milder version of Franklin's situation (couldn't get facilities because their old legendary headcoach didn't need new facilities so you shouldn't either).

The realistic top 3 barring some behind the scene shenanigans we can't possibly know like Oklahoma having a Gus-Steele situation are Napier, Aranda, and Tucker. That's also my rough order of preference, though honestly all 3 would win a lot at LSU. Also maybe Mark Stoops, but I assume there are contractual reasons why his name isn't really coming up even though his results should put him in the second tier of candidates.